Tumor ⁽³¹⁾

A tumor (neoplasm) is a new growth formed when, under the action of various tumorigenic factors, the genetic regulation of cells in local tissue becomes severely disordered, leading to clonal abnormal proliferation; it often manifests as a local mass in the body. However, certain neoplastic…

When a tumor advances to the late stage, it is often accompanied by serious complications; complete intestinal obstruction and urinary retention are two that particularly affect the patient's quality of life. Because a tumor growing in a critical location has become too large, the patient…

Several years ago, I saw a patient with ovarian cancer in Putian, Fujian Province. After she developed bloody ascites, guided by a local villager, she foraged fresh Chinese herb Xiaoji (Herba Cephalanoploris) and stewed it into soup to drink. Each time she used about 250-500…

Breast cancer is among the more treatable tumor diseases, but once it ulcerates it becomes hard to treat. Since ancient times, various TCM external-medicine classics have repeatedly recorded: "Once ru yan (breast rock, i.e. breast cancer) ulcerates, it is untreatable," showing that once breast cancer…

When I first learned to use TCM to treat tumors, I liked to study from books. Later, after gradually coming into contact with some patients whose tumors had been treated very successfully with Chinese medicine, I liked to trace their treatment processes and study the…

Original headline: Fudan University sells anti-tumor drug patent to a U.S. company for a record US$65 million. On March 15, Fudan University and the U.S. company HUYA (Huya Bioscience) reached an agreement in Shanghai: Professor Yang Qing of Fudan's School of Life Sciences licensed, for…

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…

Malignant tumours are classified, according to the origin of their tissue cells, into carcinomas, sarcomas and blastomas. Carcinomas arise from epithelial tissue; sarcomas arise from mesenchymal non-epithelial tissue; blastomas arise from immature tissue. Sarcomas are extremely malignant and progress rapidly, often enlarging to around ten…

The thought of yang-fire and yin-poison originated with Zhang Jingyue of the Ming dynasty and matured under Wang Weide of the Qing dynasty. This school held that the yang pattern of tumors is caused by fire, while the yin pattern is caused by poison; therefore…

An oncologist faces families under extreme tension. The patient's life hangs by a thread; overanxious family members have long since been pulled off their normal life track, and the oncologist is their last hope of salvation. If the physician can bring them hope of being…