Neuroblastoma ⁽¹⁶⁾

Children with neuroblastoma often develop leg pain as the disease progresses. I have used many formulas to address their leg pain; after screening, three have proved effective in practice. All three are historically proven formulas for leg pain, not my own inventions. The first is…

There is an illness called borderline personality disorder (BPD); its main clinical features are dysregulation of emotion, cognition, behavior, and self and identity. BPD patients easily fall into deep emotional pits and are often comorbid with depression, anxiety disorder and post-traumatic stress syndrome. They handle…

Chaijie Jiedu Wan (Chai-Guided Toxin-Resolving Pill) is a formula I created for treating COVID infection. The composition is: Guizhi (Ramulus Cinnamomi) 10 g, Huangqin (Radix Scutellariae) 10 g, Renshen (Radix Ginseng) 10 g, Zhi Gancao (processed Radix Glycyrrhizae) 6 g, Baishao (Radix Paeoniae Alba) 10…

The patient, a boy named Li, aged 7, 110 cm tall and 15 kg, from Taizhou, Jiangsu, first sought my help on December 31, 2021. The child was first diagnosed with neuroblastoma on July 30, 2018. On August 2, 2018, preoperative examination showed a huge…

The child, a certain Zhang, aged 2, from Shandong Province, was diagnosed with neuroblastoma in that province in August 2020, and later treated at the Shanghai Children's Medical Center (patient no. 64709985). The child's parents first contacted me on December 27, 2020, seeking my help.

Leukemia and neuroblastoma are regarded as two different diseases in Western medicine, but their clinical syndromes overlap: in the acute phase both present fever, anemia, bleeding and pain. In the spirit of TCM pattern differentiation, such symptoms represent alternating or concurrent occurrences of excess evil-qi…

Around five in the morning I woke, opened my phone, and saw an obituary in my Moments: the father of a 15-year-old child told everyone that his child had passed away. The child was the same age as my son, a neuroblastoma patient I had…

Once neuroblastoma relapses after treatment, re-treatment becomes extremely difficult. In a child with neuroblastoma, the appearance of anemia, fever, bone pain, limping, incontinence of urine and stool, swollen orbits, protruding eyeballs, blurred vision, scalp swelling, cough, enlarged superficial lymph nodes, or difficulty breathing generally means…

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…

Neuroblastoma (NB) is known as the king of pediatric tumors and is extremely difficult to treat. Neuroblastoma originates in the sympathetic ganglia or the bilateral adrenal glands; it is the most common extracranial solid tumor of childhood. Epidemiological studies suggest the following factors may promote…