Cancer Notes ⁽¹¹⁶⁾

Today a gastric cancer patient from Guangdong Province consulted me because, after sunbathing, his skin was sunburned and the pain had radiated to his axillary lymph nodes. He asked whether he had developed axillary lymph node metastasis or bone metastasis. On close inquiry, it turned…

Against cancer, there is no fine reasoning to be done: you have to overwhelm the master with wild swings of the fist. — A cancer patient in Hangzhou I once wrote an article, My Experience Using Broad-Spectrum Anti-Cancer Chinese Herbal Compounds with Multiple Targets, describing…

As the cost of epidemic prevention grows ever higher and the fight drags on, the public will grow ever numb to the epidemic's course, and future prevention will grow ever harder. The present is the last chance for the unvaccinated to get the COVID-19 vaccine…

On April 8, 2022, Professor Cai Shang's group at the School of Life Sciences, Westlake University, China, published a paper in the internationally authoritative journal Cell, once again confirming the existence of bacteria inside tumor cells and demonstrating for the first time that bacteria unique…

In the United States there is a dedicated profession called the genetic counselor. A genetic counselor is not a clinician, but possesses rich oncology knowledge and can help clients analyze their own and their family's cancer risk, identify high-risk causes of carcinogenesis, design pre-cancer intervention…

I once treated a melanoma patient with widespread metastases. He was from Zhejiang and one of the best friends of my life. He was a deeply compassionate and hardworking man; even after falling ill he kept doing high-intensity work without pause, which was a major…

In daily practice I find many people trapped in mistaken beliefs all their lives without knowing it, truly blocked by one leaf so they cannot see the mountain. This occurs not only in patients with cognitive impairment but in normal people, and even in myself.

Is cancer curable? For a long time, influenced by the prevailing view, I thought it was not. Because in practice things always fell short at the last step: we thought some cancer patients would not relapse, but they did, and the reasons were baffling. Yet…

The chronic diseases that most often coexist in cancer patients are hypertension, hyperglycemia (diabetes), obesity with hyperlipidemia, heart disease, stroke (cerebral hemorrhage or infarction), anxiety disorders, and depression. I believe most oncologists share my intuition: after five years in oncology with more than a thousand…

Family members of cancer patients often ask me whether they should use traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) as an adjunct during radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Their attending Western-medicine oncologists tell them, in very certain terms, that they should not, and even forbid them from using any TCM…