Advantages of Combining Chinese and Western Medicine for Tumor Treatment

Malignant tumor – cancer – is a major disease that threatens human beings. According to statistics, in 2012, there were about 14.1 million new cases of malignant tumors and about 8.2 million patients died from malignant tumors worldwide. The annual report of China Tumor Registry 2013 shows that there were about 3.093 million new cases of malignant tumors with an incidence rate of 235.2/100,000; there were about 1.956 million deaths from malignant tumors with a mortality rate of 148.8/100,000. At present, the incidence of malignant tumor is increasing, and it has become the first cause of death in China, and on average, one out of every three to four dead people died of malignant tumor. The Department of Oncology of Baiyun District People’s Hospital of Guangzhou City has made great progress in medicine in recent years, especially Chinese medicine is the crystallization of thousands of years of experience of Chinese people in fighting with diseases, which is profound and long-standing. Under the guidance of the principles of supporting the righteousness and eliminating the evil, adjusting the yin and yang, treating the three causes and combining multiple methods, the treatment methods of malignant tumors have been continuously enriched and enriched, and the research on the mechanism of anti-tumor of the active ingredients of Chinese medicine has become the hot spot of medical research today. The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine says: “If the righteousness exists within, the evil cannot dry up.” It is the basic method of Chinese medicine for treating malignant tumors to support the righteousness and strengthen the root. Tumor recurrence and metastasis: combined with Chinese medicine treatment on the basis of surgery and radiotherapy and chemotherapy, patients can enhance immunity and promote rapid recovery, inhibit or stabilize the development of tumor body, and achieve “tumor-free survival” or “survival with tumor”. 2.The effect of radiation and chemotherapy can be enhanced by combining radiation and chemotherapy with Chinese medicine treatment, which can improve the tolerance of the body to radiation and chemotherapy, reduce toxic side effects, and reduce resistance to chemotherapy drugs, thus enhancing the efficacy of radiation and chemotherapy. 3. Alleviate the pain of tumor patients and improve their quality of life: Chinese medicine treatment can improve various clinical discomfort symptoms of tumor patients caused by tumor disease itself or invasive treatment, such as topical analgesic patch can improve cancer pain, Ganmai Dazao Tang can improve plant nerve dysfunction, Baohe Pill can improve anorexia and nausea, Guixian Tang can improve anemia and insomnia, and Zhuangyao Pill can improve liver function impairment and jaundice. etc. For example, for tumors with poor efficacy of radiotherapy and chemotherapy, such as primary liver cancer, or malignant tumor patients who cannot tolerate radiotherapy and chemotherapy, they have achieved more satisfactory efficacy in improving patients’ survival quality and prolonging survival period. In conclusion, the combination of Chinese and Western medicine is more effective than either Chinese medicine or Western medicine applied alone in treating tumors. Chinese medicine can compensate the deficiencies of Western medicine treatment to a certain extent, while the advantages of Western medicine are the weaknesses of Chinese medicine treatment. The organic combination of western medical treatment means and TCM treatment will certainly maximize the advantages of the discipline, improve the life treatment of patients and prolong their survival period.