Cancer Notes ⁽¹¹⁶⁾

A spokeswoman for the World Health Organization's Department of Noncommunicable Diseases, Ilbawi, recently told the media that, according to data released by the WHO in December 2020, 19.3 million people worldwide were diagnosed with cancer in 2020 and 10 million died of cancer. Cancer has…

Induction-differentiation therapy refers to a treatment method in which, under the action of certain in vivo or in vitro differentiation-inducing agents, malignant tumor cells are induced to evolve and differentiate toward normal cells. Through induced differentiation, the biological characteristics of malignant tumor cells (including markers…

Patients on chemotherapy often beg me to take them on, because chemotherapy really has become unbearable; the side effects are severe, their bodies have developed all kinds of serious discomforts, and the doctors giving them the chemotherapy are helpless against those side effects. To be…

Today the daughter of a patient with a renal pelvic tumor came to me for help because her father had run into an emergency while being treated for his tumor with Chinese medicine. The patient, then 74 years old, was found to have a renal…

In mid-January 2019, a lung cancer patient came to see me from Xinjiang. The patient had been diagnosed with lung cancer in December 2017; after diagnosis she had surgery and chemotherapy, and took Chinese medicine after chemotherapy ended. The patient had a history of cerebral…

Almost everyone who has studied TCM knows of a treatment called "fighting poison with poison." As a four-character idiom, the phrase is known to every man, woman, and child in the Chinese-speaking world. But the great majority of people understand only its surface meaning, unable…

For some people, staying alive is not difficult. For others, staying alive is like sailing through stormy seas, full of hardships and dangers. Cancer patients belong to the latter group. Some are indignant at fate's arrangement after a cancer diagnosis; others are crushed in spirit…

Do cancer patients receiving Chinese medicine need regular Western-medicine re-examinations? In most cases, the answer is yes. Because we need objective imaging and hematological examinations to determine the therapeutic effect, in order to assess whether the current treatment plan is working. But for those end-stage…

In the book Anticancer, the author David, who is both a doctor and a cancer patient, quotes a healthcare worker, Michael Lerner, who spent twenty years caring for cancer patients: "On a sick planet, it is impossible to be well." I like this sentence very…

After being diagnosed with a brain tumor, the French physician David Servan-Schreiber devoted himself to studying everything available on cancer recovery and talked at length with a great many cancer survivors. Out of this he wrote a book entitled Anticancer: A New Way of Life.