Radiotherapy ⁽⁴⁾

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…

In recent years, medical research on tumours has grown ever deeper, and cancer patients are living ever longer. Oncologists at home and abroad are constantly updating their understanding of tumours. Some scholars hold that after a tumour forms, the intercellular regulation and signalling are disrupted…

Advanced cancer patients, in TNM staging, generally have distant-organ metastasis—that is, M-positive—and clinical stage IV. Such patients have already passed the best treatment window; neither TCM nor Western medicine can do much. For these patients, the hope of cure is already slim. Adjusting psychological expectations—pursuing…

So far I have encountered three non-localized cancer patients who, on their physicians' advice, all underwent palliative radiotherapy, and without exception the results were poor. In one, the disease metastasized and worsened faster while radiotherapy was being given; in another, the disease had been well…