Cancer Notes ⁽¹¹⁶⁾

These past few days, many people have written articles about the passing of Mr. Gao Shanwen after treatment for lymphoma, and people have kept sending me messages asking me to comment on his treatment regimen. Gao Shanwen was a famous economist, a graduate of Peking…

Nowadays many people on the Internet encourage cancer patients to have an optimistic mindset when fighting cancer, which is a good thing. But some people overemphasize the importance of an optimistic attitude, even exaggerating its effect, and that goes too far. When people get cancer,…

On April 8, 2026, the internationally renowned cancer-research journal Cancer Research Communications published an observational study showing a significant association between marriage and reduced cancer risk. Men who had never married had a 68% higher cancer incidence than married or previously married men. Among women…

Mr. Shengdi Mieya and I have known each other online for over ten years. Although we have never met, we have a certain bond. A few years ago, when he felt he might pass away at any moment, he even contacted me, ready to entrust…

According to a report by Jimu News on February 28, 2025, a cancer patient surnamed Zhang in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, was diagnosed at a proper hospital with a mixed tumor of the mandible. After mistakenly believing the theories promoted by Zhang, the legal representative of…

The 2022 National Cancer Report released by China's National Cancer Center shows that China adds 4.88 million new cancer cases each year, meaning that about 13,000 people in China are diagnosed with cancer every day. Over a lifetime, roughly one in four to one in…

Earlier this month I returned to my hometown. The daughter and son-in-law of a patient there reached me through my sister-in-law, hoping I could see their elderly parent. The old person has late-stage cancer along with hepatitis C, and has already developed drug-induced liver injury.

The American Cancer Society recently published, in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, a study it led showing that among U.S. adults aged 30 and older, about 40% of cancer cases and half of cancer deaths are attributable to modifiable risk factors such as unhealthy…

Should cancer patients take medication for life? People often ask me this question. To be honest, I cannot give a correct answer, or rather, there is simply no correct answer. In practice, some patients I have treated stopped taking medication and, during long-term follow-up, have…

The day before yesterday I met with a patient's family member—a young woman of twenty-six who had just graduated from college and was working as a teacher in a small city. Her father had just died of COVID during last year's pandemic, and her mother…