Just last week, a family member from Wuhan was entrusted by her mother to come to our hospital to thank me in person and pay an early New Year’s greeting! When I carefully asked the family, I learned that the family’s mother is a retired doctor from Wuhan Children’s Hospital, nearly seventy years old. The family repeatedly said that the local doctors and friends and relatives all called it a miracle! A miracle!
Among the patients I have treated, for elderly patients with acute leukemia, “not for remission, but for survival” is the treatment philosophy I have always emphasized, because I have seen too many patients receiving so-called aggressive chemotherapy, targeted therapy and other treatments, some of which, despite achieving complete remission, have paid the price of serious infections, impaired organ function, etc. Some of them, despite achieving complete remission, pay the price of serious infections and organ function damage, and a significant number of patients do not get remission, which greatly affects the quality of life of patients!
In my experience, for elderly acute leukemia patients with low white blood cell count, it is better to treat them with TCM-based combination therapy than to give the so-called standard combination chemotherapy, even if the pre-excitation chemotherapy (chemotherapy combined with stimulating factors), I feel that it is more than worth the loss, and I do not advocate chemotherapy intervention! Of course, only according to the traditional Chinese medicine method of treatment in the past, the effect is also not good; I advocate the so-called integrated therapy, including the combination of identification and identification of the disease, the combination of support and dispel evil, Chinese medicine and immune cells, drug therapy and food regimen, and so on, such a therapy, so that many patients benefit, improve the quality of life, extend the survival time, overcome the dependence on hospitalization treatment, so that patients live in the midst of a warm and clean home and their own family!
Whether in their seventies, or eighties, elderly acute leukemia patients, whether primary or myelodysplastic syndrome secondary leukemia patients, do not advocate chemotherapy intervention, emphasizing non-chemotherapy Chinese medicine green integrated therapy to administer treatment, not for remission, but for survival, with particular emphasis on the quality of life of patients, that is, to improve the happiness index!
I remember a few years ago, an old man in his eighties who was transferred from Zhongshan Hospital was diagnosed with acute leukemia by Zhongshan Hospital, and due to the difficulty in tolerating chemotherapy, although given in small doses, and gave up Western medical treatment, sought my treatment, and the patient survived with dignity, quality of life, and happiness for more than three years, and after the patient passed away, the family even wrote a letter of thanks to express my help in giving the old man the moderate treatment they chose! approach!
Chronic leukemia in the elderly is even more so, recently many chronic lymphocytic leukemia in the elderly patients, as long as the disease does not bring pain, as long as the white blood cells are not continuously climbing, liver and spleen lymph nodes do not cause compression symptoms, I are given Chinese medicine as the main treatment, dynamic detection of blood to observe the condition, many white blood cells in about 50, completely normal people like long-term ten years or longer survival; and some elderly Some patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia are tempted by new drugs and new protocols and repeatedly receive combination chemotherapy, and among the patients I have contacted, many patients not only do not gain, but often fail and die due to serious complications such as serious infections and impaired organ function!
I urge elderly patients with acute and chronic leukemia and their families to choose chemotherapy carefully, mainly combined intravenous chemotherapy, and not to pursue complete remission as young people do, as long as they can survive with a good quality of life! Take care of chronic disease like treatment management!
I sincerely wish the elderly leukemia patients to live well and happy survival!