What is the role of internal herbal treatment for patients suffering from breast cancer

  Through clinical practice, it has been proved that Chinese medicine can play an important role in the process of preoperative, postoperative, chemotherapy and radiotherapy of breast cancer.  1. Pre-operative Chinese medicine treatment: For some patients who have breast cancer and are too weak to endure surgery, pre-operative internal Chinese medicine can correct the imbalance of yin and yang of the body, improve the function of internal organs, and improve the patient’s physique to facilitate surgery on the one hand, and cause degenerative changes and necrosis of cancer cells on the other hand, which can help control the disease before surgery.  2. Post-surgery Chinese medicine treatment: The purpose of taking Chinese medicine internally after breast cancer surgery is to recover the body constitution as soon as possible, improve or reduce some post-surgery adverse reactions such as swelling of the affected limbs after surgery, and prepare for further radiotherapy and chemotherapy.  3, chemotherapy at the same time Chinese medicine treatment: can improve gastrointestinal dysfunction, reduce nausea, vomiting, abdominal distension and other symptoms and can improve appetite; reduce anti-estrogen drug-induced menstrual irregularities, hot flashes, sweating, heartburn, and the formation of deep vein thrombosis; relieve bone marrow function suppression, increase white blood cells, red blood cells, platelets; treatment of drug liver damage; treatment of chemotherapeutic alopecia. Chinese medicine treatment can enhance the efficacy of chemotherapy drugs, reduce toxic side effects, maintain the stability of the body’s internal environment and good physical condition, and improve the completion rate and long-term efficacy of chemotherapy.  4. Simultaneous Chinese medicine treatment with radiotherapy: Firstly, to prevent and control the adverse reactions and sequelae caused by radiotherapy, secondly, to play the role of radiation sensitization of Chinese medicine, thirdly, after radiotherapy, Chinese medicine consolidation to reduce recurrence and metastasis and improve the long-term efficacy.  5.Late stage or recurrent breast cancer treatment: For patients with advanced breast cancer who are inoperable, or who have breast cancer and other diseases that are inoperable or recurrent after surgery, taking traditional Chinese medicine can improve the quality of survival and prolong the survival period.  6. Long-term Chinese medicine treatment: Patients with post-operative breast cancer should take Chinese medicine treatment for a long time, preferably in the form of dialectical treatment, which can improve the physical condition, enhance the immune function and anti-cancer ability of patients, and also control the activity of cancer cells to a certain extent, prevent recurrence and transformation, improve the quality of survival and enhance the long-term curative effect.