Stomach Cancer ⁽³²⁾

Two common problems affect the circulatory system of advanced cancer patients: one is an acquired hypercoagulable state, and the other is widespread bleeding. These two problems make the medical management of advanced cancer patients very difficult: one must both prevent cancer emboli caused by clotting…

More and more people now include gastroscopy in their health checkups, and some examination reports contain the phrase "intestinal metaplasia of the gastric mucosa." Many people cannot understand what this term means. Today I write to introduce the significance of intestinal metaplasia of the gastric…

Atrophic gastritis is a chronic gastritis with complex causes. It is generally thought that Helicobacter pylori infection and long-term use of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) may be related to atrophic gastritis. Acid-suppressing drugs such as omeprazole and lansoprazole are PPIs; PPIs usually carry the suffix…

Professor Chen Chishu (1913-1983) was a professor at the former Guiyang College of Traditional Chinese Medicine. He had rich teaching experience and excellent clinical results, and was skilled in treating intermediate and advanced gastric and esophageal cancer with TCM. Professor Chen held that in the…

Lei Yongzhong was a renowned TCM physician in China and the founder of the oncology department at Shuguang Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. A famous TCM oncology specialist, he made pioneering contributions to the integrated Chinese-Western treatment of tumors. Professor Lei…

The patient was a 60-year-old man surnamed Gao, who first consulted senior physician Zhang Xijun on February 5, 1978. The patient had suffered epigastric pain since he was 20 years old (40 years earlier); the pain often flared when he ate slightly too much or…

Yu Tuan (1438–1517), courtesy name Tianmin, self-styled Old Man Hengde of Huaxi, was from Huaci Village, Ershisanli Town, Yiwu City, Zhejiang Province. He was a renowned physician of the mid-Ming Dynasty. The Jin Hua Fu Zhi (Gazetteer of Jinhua Prefecture) records: "In Yiwu, those famous…

The veteran TCM physician Wang Xiru, former chief physician of internal medicine at the Chongqing Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, once treated a patient with late-stage gastric cancer suffering from persistent hiccups using Ye's Stomach-Nourishing Decoction (Ye's Yangwei Tang), an empirical formula of the Qing-dynasty…

Huanglian Wendan Decoction comes from Liuyin Tiaobian (Systematic Identification According to the Six Causes) by the Qing physician Lu Zixian. Its composition is: Huanglian (Coptidis Rhizoma), 2 qian (6 g); Zhuru (Bambusae Caulis in Taeniam), 4 qian (12 g); Zhishi (Aurantii Fructus Immaturus), 2 qian…

Antike Jiaonang (Antike Capsule) is a commonly used anti-cancer patent medicine whose ingredients include Chanpi (toad skin) and Danggui. It is commonly used for blood-stasis patterns of esophageal cancer and advanced primary liver cancer, as adjuvant therapy during chemotherapy for mid-to-late gastric cancer, or alone…