Cancer Notes ⁽¹¹⁶⁾

Cigarettes are the single greatest killer of human health; on the list of causes of human death, smoking ranks first. By 2030, about 8.3 million people worldwide will die from various tobacco-related diseases, and tobacco-related deaths will account for roughly 10% of all global deaths.

The relationship between diabetes and cancer has long drawn medical attention, and a large body of epidemiological research has confirmed that both type 1 and type 2 diabetes carry a high risk of concurrent cancer. Diabetes patients have a higher probability of developing cancer than…

Recently I have been taking courses on Bilibili - mainly junior- and senior-high-school science courses, and I chose videos by teachers with large followings. As I listened, I discovered something surprising: chemistry teachers - celebrated names, no less - were making elementary mistakes in their…

Scientists have found that within the same species, the larger an individual's body, the higher its risk of developing cancer. Therefore, for us humans, being tall is not necessarily better; tall people face a considerably higher lifetime cancer risk than short, slender people. Of course,…

As a child, I never imagined that most of my life would be spent in a study. Now I always feel time is too short, with many problems still needing solutions; aside from reading, thinking, and practicing, there is no better way. Cancer is a…

People often ask me whether there are still masters like Sun Bingyan, who fought poison with poison. My answer is always no. The reason is simple: under current health law, a doctor who practiced the way old Master Sun did would be imprisoned before long.

TCM has a rather distinctive method called fumigation-inhalation (xunxi) therapy: the patient inhales vaporized medicinal particles through the nose. The particles enter the body via the respiratory tract, pass through the alveolar capillaries into the bloodstream, and are then carried by the blood to every…

First, I want to stress that I am not writing this article to advocate leaving cancer untreated and relying on spontaneous remission. For the overwhelming majority of cancer patients, going without treatment means they may die at once. Yet I have to say that, in…

I spent a long time studying Chinese anticancer medicine, always wanting to raise my success rate in treating cancer. But one day this year I suddenly realized that there is a ceiling to the efficacy of Chinese medicine in treating cancer—a ceiling that neither I…

These days, under the guidance of a respected elder (a TCM chief physician), I have carefully reviewed my insights from treating cancer over the years and written an outline-style summary. Under his guidance, this manuscript went through more than a dozen revisions before it was…