This day will eventually come, as long as the cancer is advanced, no matter how good the conservative treatment is and how long it lasts, it will eventually enter the end stage. A month or so ago, my second aunt left this world peacefully …… From the initial discovery of lung cancer (September ’10), to surgery (before National Day ’10), then recovery with Chinese medicine (after National Day ’10), then bone metastasis (after Spring Festival ’11), followed by low-dose chemotherapy + Chinese medicine regimen (lasting 3 years), to finally …… a little more than 4 years in total. Henan Provincial Cancer Hospital Thoracic Surgery Department Yan Ming this last six months, is very painful. It may be the problem of Chinese medicine resistance, it is possible that the Chinese medicine formula is not quite perfect, or chemotherapy side effects are really too big, this year second aunt basically can not eat Chinese medicine. Obviously, her hemoglobin and platelets were already lower and she wanted to use Chinese medicine to make up for it, but as soon as she took Chinese medicine, her stomach became uncomfortable (now she considered that there might be fire in her stomach and her stomach yin was insufficient), so she finally gave up Chinese medicine and relied entirely on blood transfusion to treat her anemia. Even so, it became worse every day. After I left the country, my condition deteriorated rapidly beyond control …… Lung cancer is the cancer with the highest incidence and mortality rate in the world today, with an overall 5-year survival rate of 15-25%, while small cell lung cancer is the most powerful type of lung cancer, with an overall 5-year survival rate of about 2% (in the US), and probably even lower in China! I was kicking myself because I had been trying so hard to get my second aunt to make it to the fifth year, but it still didn’t work out the way I wanted. On the flip side, if we’re talking about the average patient, 3 years for small cell lung cancer is pretty impressive! When Aunt Yee came to me for chemotherapy each time, her colleagues were amazed – how is she still alive?! Especially many experienced nurses, who have come in contact with many advanced small cell lung cancer nurses, find it incredible!!! I guess that’s the advantage of combining Chinese and Western medicine! Overall, Aunt Er’s lung cancer is more impressive according to experienced medical oncologists in layman’s terms! Why? Firstly, the onset of the disease was urgent, and it took less than 1.5 months from the appearance of subtle symptoms to the surgery, which is more timely than most people, but even so, the surgical resection specimen already showed a lymph node metastasis and a large tumor invasion to the left main bronchus. Second, chemotherapy with the most commonly used VP16 (pedialyte glycoside) regimen quickly developed resistance! This is relatively rare, and many patients have not been resistant to chemotherapy for more than a dozen times. After resistance, there are very few drug options available. Thirdly, after timely complete resection at the middle stage of lung cancer, bone metastasis still appeared six months later, which also indicates the high malignancy of cancer cells. Fourthly, the emergence of systemic symptoms such as edema of both lower limbs soon after the surgery indicated that my own physical condition was extremely poor and I had to give up the conventional adjuvant chemotherapy after surgery! There are many people comforting me, saying that you’ve done your best to make it like this! Basically, it is already better than more than 90%. However, I still want to be better …… So, I am here to summarize the whole experience of treatment: 1. For many patients with poor physique, Chinese medicine conditioning is very necessary! Can greatly improve the quality of life and survival. 2. When a treatment method works well, do not feel free to change to another treatment method. In fact, when second aunt just after surgery at home to take Chinese medicine to recuperate, to the end of the basic recovery to the state before the disease, the surrounding neighbors feel incredible. But at this time, my grandfather suggested to look for another TCM specialist, and as a result, she changed her anti-cancer prescription, and soon felt unwell, and second aunt herself finally refused to eat it, and went back to take the original prescription again, but the effect seemed to start to be less obvious at this time.3. It is not necessary to try all treatments, especially those with recognized poor efficacy. For example, my second aunt also consulted radiotherapy at that time, and the radiologist clearly stated that multiple bone metastases are not suitable for radiotherapy. Only in rare cases should radiotherapy be considered. In addition, she took more than 1 bottle of ERSA, which also did not have any effect. Several biological treatments were also done, but no significant effect was seen. As for there are many other prescriptions, Wang Zhengguo’s herbal …… medicine, in the end they all proved to be a waste of money! 4. Advanced cancer is mainly to improve the quality of life, and then the survival time. So every time I use a small dose of chemotherapy, just enough to control the pain caused by the tumor, do not require complete control of cancer cells – because even if you increase the dose and frequency of drugs is difficult to control the cancer cells, but the patient’s physique will therefore suffer a huge blow. This is what some people refer to when they die from chemotherapy. The most important thing is to control the pain of bone metastasis rather than the cancer cells themselves.5. Once you reach the end stage, don’t toss and turn, even the gods can’t save you. The most important thing is to control the pain, not the cancer itself.