In the spring of 2016, in the oncology ward of the hospital, when Ms. Lu read the hint in the doctor's eyes and asked her to go to the office alone, she already had a strong sense of foreboding.
"The results of your husband have come out. It is small cell lung cancer. You should be mentally prepared. This kind of cancer is highly malignant, prone to recurrence and bone metastasis."
In the office where the attending physician closed the door, I listened. After being informed without any emotion, Ms. Lu seemed to see the ferocious face of the God of Death.
Unprecedented fear, despair and helplessness came to her, and she burst into tears instantly. Her husband was just 45 years old.
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Ms. Lu’s fear, despair and helplessness are because she deeply knows that the malignancy of small cell lung cancer ranks first among many cancers.
There will be more than 1 million lung cancer patients in China every year, and small cell lung cancer is a rapidly developing and highly malignant tumor disease among lung cancer diseases.
and have a short doubling time, rapid progression, and a relatively poor prognosis. Metastasis may even occur in the early stage, and there is no possibility of even trying surgery.
Because of its rapid development, the staging of is very simple. There is no early or late stage, but it is not limited stage (equivalent to early middle stage) and extensive stage (late stage). Chemotherapy is mainly used, and can be added. Radiotherapy .
Although you can also choose radiotherapy and chemotherapy, , there is another helplessness at the same time - it is relatively sensitive to chemotherapy - due to the severe side effects of chemotherapy, most patients with weak constitutions cannot complete the chemotherapy course.
Seeing this, I guess many readers feel that there is no hope - there is no surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy have side effects, and the development is so rapid, then can't we just wait for death?
Don’t be discouraged, let me tell you the answer:
To successfully treat small cell lung cancer, the key here is comprehensive treatment that combines traditional Chinese and Western medicine.
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In decades of clinical oncology practice, I have always adhered to a concept:
Don’t blindly pursue the disappearance of tumors or blindly kill cancer cells, but change your thinking, control cancer cells, change the living environment of cancer cells, so that It no longer malignantly proliferates and spreads.
This is actually a correction of certain concepts of Western medicine. That’s why I said at the end of the previous paragraph that the perfect combination of Chinese and Western medicine is the key to the treatment of small cell lung cancer.
Because traditional Chinese medicine has the following three major advantages in the treatment of small cell lung cancer:
1. The overall concept of traditional Chinese medicine can make up for the shortcomings of the limited treatment of western medicine.
Traditional Chinese medicine treatment can often consider the characteristics of the patient's whole body, not just limited to the cancer lesions themselves.
Traditional Chinese medicine can regulate and correct certain disorders of the body and fundamentally control late metastasis.
Traditional Chinese medicine has relatively little damage to healthy cells. Generally, it will not cause new damage to physical strength due to the treatment itself. When the cancer improves, physical strength will gradually be restored, gradually enhancing immunity .
2. Traditional Chinese medicine can play a dual role of attenuating toxicity and increasing effectiveness of radiotherapy and chemotherapy.
The combination of traditional Chinese medicine can produce special effects in reducing the toxic and side effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy, and greatly improve the survival period and quality of life of patients. I have talked too much about
in my previous articles, so I won’t go into details here.
3. Treat according to syndrome differentiation, improve the quality of life, and achieve tumor-bearing survival .
The essence of traditional Chinese medicine’s treatment of cancer, which is most worthy of being described in detail, is to achieve tumor-bearing survival of late-stage patients - it has been clinically proven that it can extend the life span of patients with mid- to late-stage cancer by 5-20 years, which is gratifying.Why does
have such miraculous effects?
Because it follows the principle of TCM syndrome differentiation and treatment, it will conduct a comprehensive analysis based on the patient’s symptoms and signs, the Western medicine treatment methods used, different treatment stages, as well as the patient’s post-illness qi and blood, the deficiency and excess of yin and yang in the functions of the internal organs, etc. Then proposing the corresponding treatment plan is a true syndrome differentiation and treatment, one-person treatment.
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When Ms. Lu brought her husband to find me, her husband had already undergone surgery and then several rounds of radiotherapy and chemotherapy.
During the operation, it was discovered that the evil tumor had invaded the lower pulmonary veins and part of the atrium. At that time, a small part of the atrium was removed. It is scary to think about it.
In the process of looking, hearing and asking, I found that the patient complained that he often felt sore in the waist, felt cold in the waist, and could not breathe - this is a typical symptom of kidney yang deficiency.
In addition, the patient also said that his mouth has been dry for a while and his thirst cannot be quenched no matter how much water he drinks. What worries him most is that his memory has seriously declined and he often loses track of things.
I know that this is brain atrophy symptoms that patients experience after brain radiotherapy, and many of them are irreversible. Sometimes Alzheimer's disease occurs.
Ms. Lu’s husband’s performance is not the most serious. Among the lung cancer patients I have treated, there was one patient who developed symptoms of brain atrophy and short-term memory loss after 6 rounds of chemotherapy and 23 rounds of radiotherapy for brain metastases. , no longer knows the way home, and can’t even drive.
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In view of these circumstances, I diagnosed that Ms. Lu’s husband had a constitution of kidney yang deficiency, qi and blood deficiency after radiotherapy and chemotherapy. At the same time, radiotherapy “dry evil” damaged body fluids, and radiotherapy damaged the brain and spinal cord.
Therefore, it should nourish qi and blood, produce body fluid and nourish kidney essence. Following this idea, I first prescribed some decoctions for her.
recipe: Rehmannia glutinosa , Angelica sinensis , Chuanxiong , White peony root , Astragalus , Cuscuta , Morinda officinalis , Cornus , Red ginseng , Heishun slices, Dried ginger, licorice , whole insects, centipedes, fried atractylodes, Alisma , jujube, etc. After taking
for about a week, the patient felt that his dry mouth and tongue were significantly relieved.
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After adding or subtracting according to the symptoms, I adjusted the prescription, this time focusing on tonifying kidney essence. Prescriptions: Pseudostellariae , Jiao Atractylodes , Poria , Zhigancao , Astragalus, Psoralen , Epimedium , wolfberry, cornus, Hedyotis difoliata, Ligustrum lucidum. Sub-, Eclipta grass, etc.
After some time, Ms. Lu said that her husband’s memory had improved a lot, but the cold and wind in his lower back still existed.
I continued to adjust the prescription and let him take the medicine continuously. Gradually, his waist became less sensitive to the wind.
There was a period of time during which, after most of the symptoms were relieved, the patient said that he really didn’t want to take traditional Chinese medicine because it was too bitter and unpleasant to drink.
So, in the next few years, I randomly adjusted the plan. When he was not in serious condition, I recommended him a dietary prescription (, wolfberry lily stewed chicken wings, ). When he was in serious condition, he took some traditional Chinese medicine, and reviewed it regularly every year.
As of the publication of this article, the patient's survival period has exceeded six years without any recurrence or metastasis. Others say this is a miracle, but I know that this is just following the rules of treatment.
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