Cancer Notes ⁽¹¹⁶⁾

A nasopharyngeal carcinoma patient from Sichuan whom the author treats had, some time ago, while taking the anticancer herbs the author gave him, also receive an intravenous infusion of anti-inflammatory drugs for one day; remarkably, his tumor kept shrinking by about half within a week,…

Like humans, bees, and ants, cancer cells rely on cooperation among individuals to survive and multiply. Cancer cells that fight alone find it very hard to survive: first, because a single cancer cell can hardly draw nutrients from its surroundings; second, because such scattered, solitary…

Once people have an incurable disease, they easily believe all kinds of extreme views. Eating a sweet-potato diet to fight cancer is one of them. Quite a few cancer patients have asked me whether sweet potatoes are an anticancer food and whether they should persistently…

Patients often ask me this; some even say that certain web articles claim anti-inflammatory drugs can treat cancer. I am writing this article to set out my understanding of the question. Cancer is sometimes called "the wound that will not heal." When our tissues (such…

I have known an older brother in the cancer community for over ten years. He has survived more than twenty years after a cancer diagnosis; he was treated purely with TCM by a now-deceased famous TCM anticancer physician. More than ten years after being cured,…

What is cancer? Different people define it differently. To Athena Aktipis, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Arizona, cancer is an inevitable product in the evolution of multicellular organisms. Cancer is a kind of "organism" continually evolving within the ecosystem of our bodies, subject…

An older brother I know is a die-hard TCM fan. After he developed late-stage malignant melanoma (already with multiple metastases at diagnosis), he refused Western treatment and used only TCM, and has now survived twenty years. Recently he bought some yellow rice wine at the…

According to a report by the Reference News website on April 11, 2021, the April 3 issue of the US magazine Discover posted an article titled "Why Finding a Cure for Cancer Is So Hard," quoting Dr. Todd Golub, director of the Cancer Research Center…

Some cancer patients keep blogs; for the purpose of researching cancer, I often visit their blogs. One patient I followed for a long time—although she was not my patient—I hoped to learn lessons from her treatment regimen. When she reached the terminal stage, out of…

The liver is the body's second-largest vital organ and its largest gland, weighing about 1.36 kg and accounting for 1.5%–2.5% of body weight. The liver is the largest digestive gland in the body, with important and complex metabolic functions. The liver has a dual blood…