Cancer Complications ⁽¹⁷⁾

Professor Zhu Chenyu (deceased) was a disciple of Shi Jinmo, one of the four famous physicians of Beijing. After graduating from high school, Zhu Chenyu studied TCM under Shi Jinmo for six years, and was then sent by his teacher to Japan to study modern…

Cancer patients often develop all kinds of side effects during radiotherapy and chemotherapy. In most cancer patients, the side effects of chemoradiotherapy mainly manifest as gastrointestinal irritation and bone marrow suppression; some patients also experience hair loss. These side effects affect the patient quality of…

Cancer fever is a common symptom in cancer patients and also a clinically rather difficult one to manage. Cancer fever can be resolved with relevant Chinese medicine formulas. Moreover, the antipyretic effect of Chinese medicine on cancer fever lasts relatively long, so in clinical practice…

Fangji Huangqi Tang (Stephania and Astragalus Decoction) comes from Zhang Zhongjing's Jin Gui Yao Lue (Essential Prescriptions from the Golden Cabinet). It treats "wind-dampness with a floating pulse, heaviness of the body, sweating and aversion to wind." The original formula is: Fangji (Stephaniae Radix) 1…

Malignant fluid produced by tumors and accumulating in the thoracic cavity, abdominal cavity, and pericardium is what is commonly called pleural effusion, ascites, and pericardial effusion. These are common complications in cancer patients; if not handled well, many cancer patients die precisely from pleural, peritoneal,…

Cancer and late-stage liver cirrhosis often produce complications such as ascites. This condition, in ancient TCM, belongs to tympanites (gu zhang), one of the four major TCM miscellaneous-disease patterns (wind, consumption, tympanites, and diaphragm). It was listed among the four because the prognosis of tympanites…

Patient Hairuo developed acute intestinal obstruction due to interventional therapy and tumor effects. At Sichuan Provincial Cancer Hospital, after multiple interventions failed, the patient suffered abdominal distension and pain from the obstruction, gradually intensifying to unbearable agony. The attending physician proposed surgery to resolve the…