Advantages of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Treating Rectal Cancer

Rectal cancer is a common malignant tumor in the gastrointestinal tract. Surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy are the gold standards for the conventional treatment of rectal cancer. The combination of traditional Chinese medicine can not only reduce the toxic side effects of these three methods, but also produce special therapeutic effects. As a systemic therapy, it plays the following unique advantages in the treatment of rectal cancer:

1. Traditional Chinese medicine can treat rectal cancer by strengthening the body and eliminating evil.

When using traditional Chinese medicine to treat rectal cancer, we should follow the principle of traditional Chinese medicine for treatment based on syndrome differentiation. We should conduct a comprehensive analysis based on the patient's symptoms and signs, the Western medicine treatment methods used, the different stages of treatment, the patient's qi and blood after the illness, the yin and yang of the internal organs, etc., and then propose a corresponding treatment plan.

2. Traditional Chinese medicine treatment of rectal cancer can reduce the toxic side effects of surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy, and significantly improve the patient's survival time and quality of life.

If patients with rectal cancer can cooperate with traditional Chinese medicine treatment in time after surgical treatment, strengthen their body constitution, improve their diet and sleep conditions, and enhance their physical fitness, it will be of great benefit in preventing the recurrence and metastasis of rectal cancer.

3. Traditional Chinese medicine has a strong holistic concept, and treatment is often based on the overall characteristics of colorectal cancer patients, rather than being limited to the cancer lesions themselves.

First, TCM conditioning can correct certain imbalances in the body, remove factors that cause tumor recurrence, and reduce the chance of metastasis. Second, TCM causes relatively little damage to healthy cells and generally does not cause new damage to physical strength due to the treatment itself. As cancer improves, physical strength will gradually recover and immunity will gradually increase.