Why do patients with advanced cancer get hot and dry?

Cancer is a systemic disease and may have multiple metastatic lesions in advanced stage. Patients with dryness and fever may be related to the progress of tumor disease on the one hand, and tumor may affect the changes of endocrine hormones, which may also cause people to be more irritable; there is also the absorption of tumor necrotic material, which may also cause tumor fever, such as hypothermia, night sweats and fatigue. In general, there is no way to do surgery for advanced patients, but further palliative anti-tumor treatment, including radiotherapy and chemotherapy, can be considered. From the perspective of Chinese medicine, advanced tumor often has heat toxicity or damp toxicity congestion, which depletes qi, blood and yin, and after the human body’s yin is depleted, it will manifest as internal heat or dry heat of yin deficiency, so for advanced cancer patients, tumor heat can be treated with Chinese herbal soup that nourishes yin, moistens dryness and clears heat, or Chinese patent medicine that clears heat and detoxifies, such as oral Xinhuang tablets. Late stage patients try to strengthen their company, and there is no regret if they all try their best.