How long can I live with advanced thyroid cancer?

  As the symptoms of thyroid cancer are not obvious in the early stage, patients are already in the middle and late stage when they are diagnosed. The most important concern of patients and their family members is the treatment of advanced thyroid cancer and the survival period. How long can patients with advanced thyroid cancer live?  The survival period of advanced thyroid cancer depends on the severity of the patient’s disease and the sensitivity of the organism to the drugs, as well as the reasonable treatment plan.  Most of the thyroid cancers have already spread and metastasized in advanced stage, so the chances of surgical resection are low, and even the surgery is only palliative and localized. Therefore, surgery should be carefully considered in the treatment of advanced thyroid cancer, and surgical resection is not recommended. Radiotherapy is a common treatment for advanced thyroid cancer, but it kills cancer cells and normal cells at the same time, which is effective in the short term but can easily cause toxic side effects. Therefore, the combination of radiotherapy and chemotherapy with TCM is more effective. TCM treatment can effectively improve the immune system of patients, enhance the therapeutic effect of radiotherapy and reduce the adverse effects of radiotherapy.  From the perspective of TCM, TCM believes that thyroid cancer is caused by deficiency of vital energy, stagnation of qi, phlegm and blood stasis over time. “Long-term survival with tumor”.  Therefore, the treatment focuses more on the overall comprehensive treatment. The focus of the treatment is not on the localization of the cancer, but on the adjustment and recovery of the overall changes of the body after cancer, so that its internal environment can reach a balance, which is obviously different from the viewpoint of local treatment such as transplantation surgery, and also different from Western medicine which only focuses on improving It is obviously different from the local treatment such as transplantation surgery, and different from the so-called holistic treatment of Western medicine which only focuses on improving nutrition, reducing symptoms and improving physical constitution.  The essence of TCM Triple Balance Therapy is to grasp the key disease mechanism – “deficiency”, “stasis” and “toxicity”. It takes into account the three major countermeasures of “supporting the righteousness”, “dredging” and “eliminating the toxicity”, and focuses on the use of medicine to support the righteousness and supplement the deficiency, dredge the stasis, and attack and detoxify the toxicity according to the patient’s specific condition. The three aspects of the medicine will be used according to the patient’s specific situation, so as to achieve the fundamental purpose of regulating the balance of yin and yang, qi and blood, and physiological functions of the internal organs. According to statistics, 215 cases have been treated with the “Triple Balance Therapy” for 6 months, of which 109 cases have survived for more than 5 years, with a survival rate of 51%.  The advantages of TCM Triple Balance Therapy in treating advanced thyroid cancer include many other aspects, such as improving the success rate of surgery, reducing complications and secondary diseases; cooperating with radiotherapy and chemotherapy to reduce toxicity and increase effectiveness, improving the internal environment of the body, enhancing the immunity of patients and their own anti-cancer ability, and using traditional Chinese medicine to prevent recurrence or metastasis after patients with advanced thyroid cancer have undergone surgery or radiotherapy or chemotherapy for remission, so as to improve the efficacy of treatment.