Ovarian cancer treatment misconceptions and remedial treatment by Chinese herbal medicine

  Chinese herbal medicine treatment for ovarian cancer has been clinically proven to be effective in recent years, both before and after surgery, as well as in combination with chemotherapy treatment and remedial treatment after chemotherapy failure. For advanced ovarian cancer, it also has the advantages of prolonging the survival period, improving the quality of life and alleviating patients’ pain. But unfortunately, many patients and even medical practitioners ignore the treatment of TCM.  According to TCM, ovarian cancer belongs to the category of “obstruction” and “accumulation” in TCM. The onset of ovarian cancer is caused by the deficiency of positive energy and the internal flourishing of cancer toxins. Generally, in the early stage of the disease, the main treatment is to clear the toxin and support the positive energy, while in the later stage, the main treatment is to support the positive energy and clear the cancer toxin.  For early stage patients, combining chemotherapy and surgery with Chinese medicine can promote the recovery of the post-operative body as soon as possible, reduce the toxicity of chemotherapy drugs, improve the immune function and disordered body function damaged by chemotherapy, and thus reduce the pain of recurrence, metastasis and chemotherapy. In this period, we suggest: combining with TCM treatment as early as possible.  In relapsed patients, Western medicine mostly takes chemotherapy. At this time, depending on the condition, we recommend combining the appropriate amount of chemotherapy with TCM treatment, or taking pure TCM treatment. The success rate of chemotherapy is only about 30%, because many patients have had multiple courses of chemotherapy before relapse, and many first-line and even second-line chemotherapy regimens have been resistant to chemotherapy, which greatly reduces the success rate of chemotherapy alone. In terms of disease mechanism, at this time, the power contrast between the body’s righteousness and cancerous toxin is again out of balance, and while clearing toxin, vigorous efforts must be made to support righteousness, otherwise the body will be at a disadvantage of a collapse, and cancerous toxin will spread widely and enter advanced stage rapidly. At this stage, our lesson and experience is that chemotherapy should be moderate and TCM should be the leading treatment. Don’t stick to the single treatment of chemotherapy, and don’t sacrifice your limited positive energy for the limited or even impossible short-term remission after chemotherapy. The principle of “no life, no chemotherapy” is not desirable.  We have treated many patients with advanced disease, when chemotherapy is no longer meaningful, and the disease is complex with impaired function of multiple organs. In practice, we have found that patients who have been treated with too much chemotherapy without Chinese medicine often fail more quickly. This phenomenon has made us reflect again and again, which has led us to adopt a combined Chinese and Western medicine treatment plan with Chinese herbal medicine as the mainstay for our outpatient and inpatient cases in the middle and late stages. This is combined with a variety of low-toxicity green treatments such as food therapy, acupuncture, and external treatment in order to prolong survival and reduce suffering.