Cancer Notes ⁽¹¹⁶⁾

Including "processed meat products," the World Health Organization's newly released list of carcinogens contains 116 agents in total, provided for the public's reference. These carcinogens include tobacco smoking, alcohol consumption, indoor coal gas, arsenic-contaminated drinking water, shoemaking and shoe repair, chimney sweeping, furniture making, iron…

The six-in-six-out breathing method is a set of qigong I worked out on my own for regulating the spleen and stomach. The practice is extremely simple: one inhalation-exhalation cycle is divided into twelve parts—six breaths out and six breaths in. When exhaling, breathe slowly, a…

Developing cancer, or having a cancer patient in the family, is one of the greatest misfortunes in life. Of all the diseases in the world that bring people suffering, cancer is probably the worst. Cancer destroys not only the body but also the spirit—the spirit…

There are some fellows who understand nothing about cancer yet continually preach the following view among cancer patients and their families: cancer can be reversed—if you only find the cause of the cancer and do the opposite, the cancer can be cured. This naive and…

When cancer patients enter the terminal stage, some experience cachexia, cancer fever, cancer pain, and similar conditions; the hospital gives up treatment, but the family does not give up and keeps seeking ways to salvage the situation. In fact, for terminal stage-IV cancer patients, excessive…

Many tumor patients eventually come to Beijing to try their luck. In fact, Beijing doctors are also helpless against tumors; some Beijing physicians talk grandly, with brilliance on the surface and rubbish underneath, yet many patients come to Beijing precisely for these 'famous doctors.' I…

Advanced cancer patients, in TNM staging, generally have distant-organ metastasis—that is, M-positive—and clinical stage IV. Such patients have already passed the best treatment window; neither TCM nor Western medicine can do much. For these patients, the hope of cure is already slim. Adjusting psychological expectations—pursuing…

Because of my mother's cancer, I have stayed in cancer circles for ten years. Through Tianya Hospital, Sina Blogs, and QQ groups I have come to know a great many cancer patients and their families, and I constantly see anxious cancer patients and families rushing…

Arsenic (pi shuang) has, since ancient times, been a toxin-attacking-with-toxin drug used in TCM clinical practice. The contemporary clinician Zhang Tingdong introduced it into the treatment of leukemia. Professor Zhang Tingdong is the founder of using arsenic to treat leukemia, and his achievement is one…

If I had not listened to doctors I would not be alive; if I had listened entirely to doctors I would not be alive either. ——Veteran cancer fighter Brother Bin Brother Bin was a veteran liver-cancer fighter I once wrote about, who fought liver cancer…