As a doctor who has been engaged in tumor prevention and treatment for a long time, I come into contact with some patients suffering from different tumors every day, and I am touched by the tenacity and bravery of many of them while diagnosing them! But more often than not, I feel sorry and sad because there are too many patients who are crushed by tumors due to lack of scientific anti-cancer treatment or loss of faith in life. Years of clinical experience has proved that, for every tumor patient, only by setting up the scientific view of anti-cancer, it is possible to take the initiative of destiny and become the ultimate victor. The following are a few suggestions on how to fight against the tumor and hope that it will be helpful to the tumor patients. Can the tumor be defeated or not? My answer is yes. The key is to do “one heart” and “three relies” on the basis of scientific concept of fighting cancer. “One heart” is to set up a firm confidence in overcoming tumor! After getting a tumor, almost all patients will feel that the sky has suddenly fallen, and pessimism and disappointment occupy the whole mind, which is very natural, completely understandable, and also a process that every patient can’t avoid, but what I want to tell you is that we should end this process as quickly as possible! As the old saying goes, “there is no way out when the mountain is exhausted, and there is another village when the flowers are bright in the dark”, today, we have advanced Chinese and Western medical diagnostic and treatment technologies, and tumor patients have every reason to set up a firm belief in overcoming tumors, and to believe that as long as there is a scientific and regular treatment, the tumors are not scary, and it is completely possible to overcome them! With the continuous progress of science, many malignant tumors, such as chorionic epithelial carcinoma, testicular spermatogonia, malignant lymphoma, childhood acute leukemia, rhabdomyosarcoma, neuroblastoma, nephroblastoma and so on, have been able to be cured or partially cured. The Chinese and western medicine combined liver cancer treatment center where I work has to see many liver cancer patients almost every day, and we found that those who are full of confidence in treatment and life, and take the initiative to cooperate with them, their treatment effect is often very different from that of pessimistic patients with the same kind of condition, and they not only can get a higher quality of life, but also can prolong the time of their survival greatly. Hepatocellular carcinoma, with insidious onset, rapid progress, easy recurrence and metastasis, and poor prognosis, is called “the king of cancers”, but it is not completely untreatable. For example, there was a Xuzhou Sun patient, who was found to have 2×2cm occupancy in the right lobe of the liver near the diaphragm in the ultrasound of physical check-up in September 1997, and then diagnosed with hepatic occupancy in the CT, and was treated at Oriental Hepatobiliary Hospital in November 1997, where the patient was treated for liver occupancy in the ultrasound. In November 1997, she underwent radical hepatectomy for hepatocellular carcinoma at the Oriental Hepatobiliary Hospital, and was confirmed as hepatocellular hepatocellular carcinoma by surgical pathology. Subsequently, she came to my outpatient clinic to seek help from traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), and was instructed to insist on being hospitalized every three months to receive a comprehensive checkup, and at the same time to use the TCM-based comprehensive treatment plan for once for two years. In the third year, he was hospitalized every half a year, and in the fifth year, he was treated once a year. Up to now, he has been operated for nearly 8 years, and his health condition is good without any signs of recurrence and metastasis. What impresses us the most is that the patient has always maintained an optimistic and open-minded attitude towards life during the whole treatment process, and has always held firm confidence in overcoming the tumor, believing that regular treatment with combination of traditional Chinese and Western medicines can help him to overcome the cancer eventually. During the treatment at home, in addition to taking traditional Chinese medicine on time, he insisted on taking a walk with his partner in the morning and evening every day, reading books and newspapers, and visiting friends, just like a normal person! There are many other patients like this in our treatment center. A large amount of clinical and experimental data at home and abroad have also proved that emotions are closely related to the neuroendocrine immune network, and positive and optimistic emotions can effectively mobilize and stimulate the immune function of the body, while negative emotions have an inhibitory effect on the immune system. Therefore, after suffering from tumor, establishing confidence as soon as possible and maintaining an optimistic attitude towards life play a very important role in the recovery and treatment of tumor patients! “Relying on science, relying on doctors and relying on oneself! First of all, we should rely on science; in the 1960s, when U.S. President John F. Kennedy was in power, there were two plans to conquer cancer and go to the moon; as a result, human beings landed on the moon but failed to conquer cancer which threatened the life and health of millions of people. However, the development of life sciences is rapidly changing, and the treatment of tumors has made great progress in the fields of traditional surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy, as well as in the latest biotherapy, gene therapy and comprehensive treatment of traditional Chinese medicine. We have reasons to believe that we still have to rely on science and the progress and development of medicine to conquer cancer. With the advancement of life science and technology and in-depth research, scholars nowadays pay more and more attention to understanding and grasping the phenomenon of life from a holistic level. In this regard, Chinese medicine has a unique advantage, and the involvement of Chinese medicine in the treatment of tumors and other major diseases is attracting the attention of the world’s medical community day by day! In my long-term clinical practice, summarizing the results of recent research on Chinese medicine against tumors and combining it with my own practical experience, I put forward the academic point of view that “Chinese medicine should be and can be used throughout the whole process of tumor prevention and treatment” in the mid-1990s, and clinical practice has proved this point of view to be correct. Chinese medicine and western medicine have their own advantages in the understanding and treatment of tumors. For different tumors or different stages of the same tumor, Chinese medicine and western medicine have different roles, therefore, patients with tumors should insist on the equal importance of Chinese and western medicine and scientific and reasonable arrangement of treatments from the beginning to the end, and should not be purely superstitious about a certain kind of therapies or medicines. At present, there are many unscientific publicity reports and promotional advertisements about tumor treatment, which are purely commercial speculation and really mislead people. Therefore, we hope that tumor patients and their family members should take science as a criterion, not listen to biased beliefs, not blindly seek medical treatment, not take a detour and not be superstitious about the so-called secret prescriptions, miracle prescriptions, and also don’t believe that there is any panacea, or they will be “entrusted to quacks” and “entrusted to quacks”. Trusted quacks” or “help witch”, or the hope of a cure will be pinned on one or two so-called expensive medicines, will not be the same as expected, the loss is not worth the gain, only rely on science, regular anti-tumor treatment, is the most sensible choice. The second is to rely on the doctor. Many patients, the process of bouncing from doctor to doctor will often encounter such confusion: rely on the doctor, which doctor can be relied on ah? As a medical worker, this, my mood is very sad! Undeniably, due to the existence of many factors, some hospitals and medical staffs are not standardized enough in the treatment of tumors. There are even some hospitals and individual practitioners who do not have treatment conditions and mislead patients through false propaganda, which not only aggravates the economic burden of patients but also delays their conditions. However, I would like to tell you that this is not the mainstream of doctors, the clinical frontline is more always thinking about the plight of patients, to conquer cancer as their own responsibility of medical science and technology workers. In particular, the predecessors in the Chinese and Western medical fields in regular hospitals have devoted their efforts and struggled hard to conquer tumors. Although tumors have not yet been completely conquered, every successful treatment experience we have today is the result of their efforts and sweat. Most of the young and middle-aged workers are also working diligently in their own positions to serve the majority of patients at the same time, study hard on technology, humble and good learning, and make great efforts to overcome the difficulties of tumors! Life is at stake when it comes to medicine! The hope of tumor patients is entrusted to us, and as medical personnel, we never dare to have the slightest slackness! A good doctor will make every effort to formulate the best treatment plan for the patient so that he or she can get the maximum benefit. Therefore, oncology patients should believe that the vast majority of our team of doctors are excellent. Doctors are the carriers of scientific knowledge, and believing in doctors is essentially believing in science. Therefore, in the process of fighting with tumor, patients should fully rely on doctors, have good communication and cooperation with doctors, and get the maximum benefit in the interaction between doctors and patients. Of course, there is a lot of knowledge about how to choose a doctor, which was introduced in the last lecture, so I won’t repeat it here. Lastly, “rely on yourself”. We should believe that fate is in our own hands, and only we can save ourselves. As we know, the emergence of tumor is the result of the combined effect of many disease-causing factors inside and outside the body. For this reason, the treatment of tumor often requires comprehensive treatment including various therapies. In order to expel cancerous toxins, a multi-pronged approach must be taken to form a synergy in order to turn the tide. As early as 2000 years ago, the Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine pointed out, “If the spirit is not advanced and the will is not cured, the disease will not be cured.” Emphasizing the important role of psychology in disease recovery, tumor patients must pay attention to their psychological adjustment! Long-term clinical practice makes me realize that tumor patients should pay special attention to the following two points in psychological adjustment: (1) Overcome the mentality of competing for fame and gain and keep a common heart. The motherland medicine thinks that “being calm and indifferent, the true qi from which the spirit is guarded, the disease is safe and sound.” That is to say, pay attention to regulate the spirit, to avoid excessive emotions, so that can make the positive qi abundant, so that the disease can not be invaded. Clinic day more, there are always patients and I said: recently there is a meeting to be held, or have a big business to talk about, it is very worrying. Encountered this situation, I will advise him to take fame and fortune to look down some, to get well soon, calm and quiet, is the upper method. If you are still addicted to fame and fortune, sound and color, even if the god doctor, it will not help! (2) Have a grateful heart and take care of your family and friends with love. Some tumor patients tend to vent their loss of life on their family members. In fact, having a tumor is a burden to the whole family, which tends to make the whole family life fall into depression and dreariness, and the family members pay for you silently in anxiety and worry! Psychologically, you also bear great torment. As a patient, you should learn to be grateful and not to complain and lose your temper. If the tumor patients can handle the family relationship well, care for and understand their family members, and take the initiative to create a warm and harmonious family atmosphere, it will be of great benefit to the improvement and recovery of their condition. Tumor attacks only the human body, but many of our tumor patients have lost their beautiful and harmonious life together after the disease. In fact, the culprit of destroying personal life often does not lie in the tumor, but the patients themselves. It is unfortunate to have a tumor, but it cannot and should not take away the warm and harmonious family life and happiness. Tumor patients should learn to be the strongest in life, smile and face life bravely. Although the above talks about three “reliance”, but to put it into practice in the final analysis, it is still necessary to “rely on oneself”, only by overcoming oneself, it is possible to get out of the haze of tumor as soon as possible, to grasp the brightness of life, and to use the injured body to shape their own perfect life. In a word, if tumor patients can always hold the firm belief of overcoming the tumor and do the “three relies”, we have reason to believe that through the joint efforts of everyone, hand in hand, overcoming the tumor is not a dream. Finally, I sincerely wish all tumor patients to overcome themselves, defeat the tumor and get a full recovery!