What are the advantages of Chinese medicine in treating pancreatic cancer?

  At present, more and more clinicians pay attention to the survival period and quality of life of patients while focusing on the localization of tumor (tumor body), and survival with tumor or even long-term survival with tumor has become a major research direction in cancer treatment. In this regard, Chinese medicine has unparalleled advantages over Western medicine in the treatment of tumors, especially in the treatment of pancreatic cancer.  The advantages of TCM treatment for pancreatic cancer are manifested in the following aspects: 1. TCM has a strong holistic concept. TCM tends to consider the characteristics of the whole body of the patient, rather than just limiting to the cancer lesion itself. TCM conditioning can correct certain disorders of the body, change the internal environment of tumor growth, remove the recurrence factors of tumor and reduce the chance of metastasis. Secondly, the loss of normal cells of human body by Chinese medicine treatment is very small, and very little new damage is caused to the body constitution due to Chinese medicine treatment itself, while the cancer is improving, the physical strength will be gradually restored and the immunity will be gradually strengthened.  2. Traditional Chinese medicine reduces the toxic side effects of the “three axes”. Surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy are the three axes of conventional treatment for pancreatic cancer, and Chinese medicine treatment can produce special effects in reducing the toxic side effects of these three axes, which can greatly improve the survival period and quality of life of patients. If patients with pancreatic cancer are treated with TCM in time after surgery, it will be beneficial to prevent recurrence and metastasis of pancreatic cancer if they can improve their diet and sleep and strengthen their physical condition. If Chinese medicine treatment is combined with chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer or after chemotherapy, it can better relieve the reaction of chemotherapy and help the smooth progress of chemotherapy. This can ensure the smooth implementation of radiotherapy.  3. Chinese medicine can support the righteousness and dispel the evil. The treatment of pancreatic cancer by TCM should follow the principle of diagnosis and treatment in TCM, and the corresponding treatment plan should be proposed according to the patient’s symptoms, physical signs, the western treatment methods used, the different treatment stages, and the patient’s post-illness qi and blood strength and weakness and yin and yang of the internal organs.  Patients with pancreatic cancer essentially still belong to the original deficiency and the actual symptoms, therefore, the treatment should support and cultivate the original cause, fight against cancer and dispel the evil, specifically by tonifying Qi, nourishing Blood, tonifying kidney and filling essence, strengthening spleen and stomach, etc. Especially for patients with middle and late stage pancreatic cancer or those who cannot undergo surgery or high dose radiotherapy or chemotherapy, these patients often have a series of pathological changes such as deficiency of vital energy, Qi stagnation, blood stagnation, dampness, cold accumulation, phlegm nodules and so on, and they are in poor physical condition, so Chinese medicine treatment is the best treatment plan. prolong the survival period and improve the quality of survival.