Radiation Enteritis ⁽⁵⁾

Patient: a woman, surname Zuo, 68 years old. She had previously been treated with radiotherapy for cervical cancer at a hospital in Guangdong province. After radiotherapy she developed a series of radiation sequelae: radiation enteritis causing bloody stools, mild anemia, and edema of the perineum…

Professor Pang Panchi (1918–1999) was, during his lifetime, a chief physician at Shuguang Hospital of Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. He had extensive experience in using TCM to support Western medicine in treating cancer, and he held distinctive views on treating radiation enteritis. Professor…

Irritable bowel syndrome, noninfectious diarrhea, intestinal dysfunction caused by surgery or chemotherapy in cancer patients, and radiation enteritis can all cause intractable acute or chronic diarrhea that responds poorly to ordinary medications. They require integrated Chinese-Western treatment, combining several drugs. I have recently used the…

Radiotherapy is a common treatment for cervical cancer in women. Radiotherapy combined with chemotherapy can achieve near-curative results in some early-to-mid-stage cervical cancer patients. However, radiation enteritis, a sequela of radiotherapy, is also extremely distressing for patients. The clinical manifestations of radiation enteritis after cervical…

Many cancer patients develop the sequela of radiation enteritis after radiotherapy. Radiation enteritis is lingering and hard to heal, affecting the patient's quality of life. In clinical practice I have found that the patent medicine compound berberine tablets (Fufang Huangliansu Pian) work quite well for…