These are all complicated questions. Many cancer patients will encounter the same problem. In recent years, I have given lectures to many doctors and scholars at home and abroad, and many such patients have sought medical advice, which has also benefited or inspired a group of similar patients. There is a lot of work to be done in the rehabilitation of cancer or tumor based on traditional Chinese medicine. Some of these topics even go beyond the medical field itself and involve the category of social ethics. 1. Does it have therapeutic value for patients with advanced cancer? In the advanced stage of cancer, theoretically speaking, cancer develops rapidly, spreads all over the body and is seriously ill. In view of the pathological characteristics of predatory growth of cancer syndrome, cancer cells will continue to grow even if the patient's whole body constitution is already very poor. Cancer mainly spreads primary cancer cells to other parts of the body through infiltration metastasis, blood metastasis, lymphatic metastasis and other forms, thus forming secondary cancer. Because of the occult characteristics of early cancer, there are basically no symptoms, so once the general cancer is discovered, it will reach the middle and late stage, often losing the best treatment period and operation period. Do you want to continue treatment at this time? Of course it is. The treatment at this time, on the one hand, inhibits the rapid development of cancer cells in the primary site; On the one hand, restrain the transfer speed; There are complications to prevent (bleeding, swelling, necrosis, etc. ); In addition, it is necessary to strengthen the patient's physique and physical strength to prevent the rapid emergence of cachexia (poor cancer physique). Therefore, it must have therapeutic value. 2. How to treat western medicine chemotherapy? Western medicine chemotherapy is one of the conventional methods for treating cancer developed and applied in recent decades. It can inhibit the development of cancer cells for some patients and some cancers for a certain period of time. In recent decades, countries all over the world have given it great hope and hope to make great achievements in the prevention and treatment of tumors. So is our country. Today, it is also one of the most important methods for clinical treatment of cancer, and even the utilization rate of cancer patients in China reaches 80%-90%, which is one of the countries with the most chemotherapy drugs in the world. Looking back on the clinical achievements and related experiences of western medicine chemotherapy drugs in cancer application in recent decades, the medical circles represented by European and American countries have different opinions on chemotherapy, but their original hopes have been greatly disappointed, and even rational regression and rational discussion have appeared. According to the survey, a cancer patient in Europe and America spends an average of 654.38+10,000-200,000 euros, and the average life of a cancer patient is only extended by less than two months, and it is obtained on the premise of losing the quality of life, that is, after chemotherapy, he suffers from systemic multiple system failure, serious side effects, bedridden and extremely low quality of life. Therefore, the western medicine community is also deeply rethinking. The average cancer chemotherapy rate in Europe and America is only about 30-40%, far lower than that in China. 3. Do you need chemotherapy after the operation? How to choose drugs and courses of treatment in western medicine chemotherapy? For the above reasons, it is difficult to answer whether chemotherapy is needed after operation. This is not only a medical academic problem, but also a medical ethical problem, and even the latter is greater than the former. The general principle of selection is that as long as cancer cells are found to have spread and metastasis, chemotherapy should be used, just to be on the safe side; In addition, even if no metastasis is found, some chemotherapy can be used to prevent it. In fact, there are three misunderstandings. First, cancer metastasis, chemotherapy can not play any role; Second, the risk of preventing the effect of chemotherapy drugs is great, and the physiological function will be greatly damaged; Thirdly, due to the application of chemotherapy drugs, patients who are already weak are even weaker and even exhausted, which cannot support the normal application of chemotherapy drugs. Many patients are at the end of chemotherapy and life. More patients die before chemotherapy is completed. From the point of statistics and quality of life, chemical drugs have not shown obvious advantages in the quality of life and survival rate of patients. On the contrary, after applying chemotherapy drugs, patients suffer greatly and their quality of life is very low. That is, chemotherapy kills 1000 enemies, causing the most self-harm, killing good cells and bad cells, normal tissues and cancerous tissues together! But due to medical ethics, social morality, family background and other reasons. Many people know that there are tigers in the mountains, but they still risk chemotherapy, that is, they don't see an obvious "possibly effective" method and don't use it, otherwise it will be bad for patients, families and society. This goes beyond the medical problem itself. The clinical manifestations of chemotherapy in western medicine, in TCM syndrome differentiation, mainly belong to spleen and kidney yang deficiency. 5. Does cancer need to take Chinese medicine? Traditional Chinese medicine has the functions of strengthening the body resistance, harmonizing yin and yang, invigorating qi and blood, dredging menstruation and relieving pain. For cancer itself, its functions are: ① to improve the body's ability to resist disease and cancer. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that healthy qi exists inside, and evil cannot be done. That is, a resistant organism can resist the occurrence and development of cancer; ② It has certain anti-tumor and anti-cancer effects. Such as Shā rotto Katakuri, Lobelia chinensis, Scutellaria barbata, Astragalus membranaceus, etc. , all have this function. ③ Alleviate various toxic and side effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Where traditional Chinese medicine is used, the side effects are obviously reduced; ④ Provide necessary physical conditions for surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy. After the application of traditional Chinese medicine, the patient's qi and blood are supplemented, the spleen and stomach function is strong, and the body is improved, supplemented by surgery or radiotherapy and chemotherapy. 6. How to eat Chinese medicine? According to a large number of literature reports, combined with my long-term health care for cancer patients, the side effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy can be alleviated or eliminated, providing physical support for surgery; Clinical practice and experience such as improving the quality of life and prolonging the survival period, Chinese medicine generally focuses on regulating the spleen and stomach; For those who have been ill for a long time or have obvious toxic and side effects of chemotherapy, tonify spleen and kidney and benefit both qi and blood; It also has the effects of inhibiting tumor, resisting cancer, resolving phlegm and removing blood stasis; Patients with cancer pain can also relieve pain by dredging meridians. Mainly soup and medicine. According to different parts, different properties, different periods, different constitutions and different cancer types, some Chinese patent medicines, such as Huang Xi Pills, are added. 7. Do you want to use acupuncture? According to my long-term rich clinical experience in cancer rehabilitation, the effect of acupuncture is similar to that of traditional Chinese medicine. If acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine can be combined, the curative effect will be complementary. Generally speaking, the most commonly used acupoints are those that regulate and tonify and resist the toxic reaction of radiotherapy and chemotherapy. For example, the acupoints below the navel of Ren meridian, Beishu acupoint, spleen and stomach meridian and kidney meridian should be supplemented and operated according to the symptoms. In order to eliminate patients' worries about whether acupuncture itself will touch the tumor site, it is generally not to directly acupuncture the tumor site, but to select points from a distance, to suit the symptoms, and to select points along the meridian. Of course, if cancer patients are already in the stage of cancer pain, the analgesic effect is becoming less and less obvious, and local acupuncture treatment may also be used. 8. How to do a good job in diet conditioning or nutrition application? Diet conditioning is necessary. You can eat some fresh, nutritious, vitamin and protein food according to the patient's mouth and stomach. Don't eat food that is too greasy, too sweet or too salty. Avoid spicy. Don't drink or smoke. As for nutrition, patients can digest and absorb it normally and have a good appetite. They can add some when they want to eat. Otherwise, it will not be replenished. Because without the above foundation, even nutritional supplements can not be digested and absorbed, and even become a burden, aggravating gastrointestinal damage. Is nutrition more expensive or average? Actually, this is not very important. Can be fully utilized by the body. If conditions permit, you can use advanced Cordyceps sinensis, but you don't have to use more. Unconditionally, then a normal diet will be nutritious and absorbed, which is the best. There is no need to insist on high nutritional quality and high price. 9. How to do emotional care and mental conditioning? Cancer patients, whether benign or malignant, should pay attention to happy mood and psychological adjustment. There is a saying that many cancer patients are scared to death. This is consistent with the clinical facts. There have been cases in which healthy people felt scared, depressed, sick and even died because they took the wrong test sheet of cancer patients. Therefore, we must do emotional care for patients and make them happy. Facts have proved that anyone who successfully fights cancer or survives for a long time has a good mentality and positive subjective initiative. As for whether to tell the patient the truth about the cancer condition? It depends on the patient's endurance and education level. If the patient has a good attitude, optimism and good education, he will take the initiative to cooperate with the treatment, which can tell the patient to better cooperate with various medical measures, which is good for disease treatment; On the other hand, we can adopt the privacy protection system of serious illness in medicine to prevent patients from getting worse, or not cooperating with medical treatment, or even encountering world-weary accidents. Summarize that once cancer occurs, it should be treated positively and correctly. In a sense, correct cancer care is more important. Whether cancer patients can complete drug treatment, operate, recover after operation, prolong the survival of those who can't operate, reduce toxic reactions and improve the quality of life depends on correct and scientific health care. Among them, Chinese medicine plays an irreplaceable role.