The role of TCM treatment in comprehensive tumor treatment

1.Treatment of low-grade malignant tumors: low-grade malignant tumors are not strong in invasion, slow in proliferation, and the immune function of the body is not seriously damaged, so the balance between good and evil is in a relative state. The application of Chinese medicine treatment to support the positive energy can keep the disease in a stable state for a long time. 2.Treatment of residual tumor: After radiotherapy and chemotherapy, the tumor shrinks but does not disappear completely, because radiotherapy and chemotherapy have a certain dose limit, if the dose is increased and radiotherapy is continued, it may lead to the collapse of immune function, destroy the balance between positive and evil, and accelerate the deterioration of the disease. At this time, the use of traditional Chinese medicine treatment, giving drugs to support the positive and dispel the evil, so that the relative balance between the positive and evil state, can obtain long-term survival with tumor. 3.For patients who are old, weak, and with major organ dysfunction such as liver and kidney, it is difficult to withstand surgery, extensive radiotherapy, high-dose chemotherapy and some biological treatments that can cause high fever, so it is a better choice to use Chinese medicine treatment with less toxic side effects. 4. As postoperative treatment for tumors with low risk of recurrence and metastasis: for low-risk tumors, radiotherapy is generally not advocated after surgery, because it cannot benefit the patient’s survival, but on the contrary, it can cause damage to the body and affect the quality of survival. Instead, Chinese medicine treatment can be used to adjust the internal environment of the body, balance yin and yang, and support positive energy to achieve the purpose of preventing recurrence and metastasis. 5.Chinese medicine + surgery treatment: such as using the method of benefiting qi and nourishing blood, strengthening spleen and stomach, can promote the patient’s body recovery after surgery, improve gastrointestinal function, etc., so as to lay a good foundation for further radiotherapy and chemotherapy. 6.Chinese herbal medicine + radiotherapy/chemotherapy: the combined use has the potential to increase the efficacy and reduce toxicity. (1) Effectiveness: There are more studies and reports on the effectiveness of Chinese medicine treatment on radiotherapy, and the legislation can be broadly summarized as benefiting qi and nourishing yin, activating blood circulation and removing blood stasis, resolving phlegm and dispersing knots, clearing heat and detoxifying toxins, etc. (2) Toxicity reduction: there are more studies on the use of Chinese medicine treatment with radiotherapy to reduce its toxic side effects, and it is widely used in clinical practice. For example, the treatment of radiation inflammation by benefiting qi and nourishing yin, clearing heat and detoxification, activating blood circulation and removing blood stasis; the prevention of myocardial injury caused by radiotherapy by broadening the chest and regulating qi, benefiting qi and activating blood; the protection of bone marrow hematopoietic function by strengthening the spleen and tonifying the kidney, tonifying qi and nourishing blood; the prevention of gastrointestinal reactions by strengthening the spleen and stomach, lowering rebellion and stopping vomiting.