Bone Metastasis ⁽³⁾

Tu Kuixian (1916–2003) was, before his death, head of internal medicine at the Changzhou Municipal Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine. He once treated a patient with bone metastasis from follicular adenocarcinoma of the thyroid. The patient first came to Dr. Tu on August 25, 1981.

This is a case of end-stage lung cancer with multiple metastases. On May 10, 2022, the patient's family sought my help. I originally held out no hope for the patient's treatment, but unexpectedly, the patient's family contacted me happily today, telling me that the treatment…

So far I have encountered three non-localized cancer patients who, on their physicians' advice, all underwent palliative radiotherapy, and without exception the results were poor. In one, the disease metastasized and worsened faster while radiotherapy was being given; in another, the disease had been well…