Can traditional Chinese medicine treat advanced liver cancer? Liver cancer specifically targets three types of people

Liver cancer is a malignant tumor of the liver. It is a common and frequently occurring surgical disease. Malignant liver tumors can be divided into two categories: primary and secondary. Primary malignant liver tumors originate from the epithelial or mesenchymal tissue of the liver. The former is called primary liver cancer, which is a highly prevalent and extremely harmful malignant tumor in my country; the latter is called sarcoma, which is relatively rare compared with primary liver cancer. Secondary or metastatic liver cancer refers to malignant tumors originating from multiple organs throughout the body that invade the liver. It is generally common in liver metastases of malignant tumors in organs such as the stomach, bile duct, pancreas, colorectum, ovary, uterus, lung, and breast.

Liver cancer specifically targets three types of people

1. Men: Generally speaking, the ratio of male to female liver cancer patients is 7-10:1, which means that the number of male liver cancer patients is 7-10 times that of female patients. There is no definite explanation for why males are the high-risk group for liver cancer. However, many medical experts believe that the female hormone in women has a certain antagonistic effect on certain liver cancer pathogenic factors.

2. Alcoholics: The incidence of liver cirrhosis is very high among alcoholics, and the relationship between liver cirrhosis and liver cancer is very deep. To be exact, drinking is not the direct cause of the disease, but drinking is an assistant or salesman of carcinogens, which can promote the carcinogenic effect of carcinogens and inhibit the function of the immune system. In addition, alcohol can stimulate the secretion of the pituitary gland, accelerate the speed of cell division, and increase the susceptibility of cancer.

3. Middle-aged and elderly people: Most liver cancers occur after the age of 40, because the effects of carcinogenic factors require a process of accumulation, which can even take decades. Therefore, most liver cancer patients are middle-aged and elderly people, and the age group with a high incidence is between 50 and 60 years old.

Causes of death in patients with advanced liver cancer

Common direct causes and symptoms of death in patients with liver cancer are as follows:

1. Combined infection

Due to low immunity, infectious complications are prone to occur, and the bacteria, viruses, fungi, etc. that originally existed in the body and did not cause disease will also take advantage of the situation and aggravate the condition. This kind of infection is often difficult to control and can cause high fever, coma, and death.

2. Bleeding

Bleeding in liver cancer patients can be caused by suppression of bone marrow hematopoiesis, thrombocytopenia, or by direct damage to blood vessels by cancer cells or severe infection, leading to rupture of blood vessels. Large amounts of blood loss can cause death.

3. Damage to important organs

In important organs, cancer cells invade and directly destroy the normal structure of organs, which can cause organ damage and lead to death. The most important organ is the brain, which contains the respiratory and circulatory centers. If cancer blocks important ducts, it can easily lead to death. Liver cancer causes blockage of the common bile duct, which can cause jaundice, liver function and digestive dysfunction, which is the cause of death.

4. Cachexia caused by nutritional depletion

Cancer cells grow rapidly, consuming a large amount of nutrients from the human body; patients who are seriously ill reduce their intake of nutrients. Over time, they develop anemia, edema, fatigue, and even extreme hunger-induced malnutrition, a state known as cachexia, and eventually die from systemic failure.

5. Metabolic abnormalities

It can be caused by metastatic cancer or ectopic secretion. Common symptoms include hypercalcemia, hypoglycemia, and purine and urate metabolism disorders, and may even lead to renal failure and death.

Introduction to TCM Treatment of Advanced Cancer

The specific analysis of the effect of traditional Chinese medicine in treating advanced cancer is as follows:

1. Avoid excessive attack, but strengthen the body and expel the evil.

Late-stage cancer is as fragile as a candle in the wind, and the vital energy is greatly damaged. If you attack it vigorously, it will only help the evil and make the disease more rampant. If you suffer from chronic diseases, your vital energy will be weak. You should be more cautious when treating it. Even if the evil energy is strong, you should not attack it. If you attack it, the disease will not go away, and the vital energy will be lost first, and changes will occur in an instant. Chinese medicine prescriptions pay great attention to the combination of attack and supplement. For example, supplementing yin can attack heat, and supplementing yang can drive away cold.

2. Avoid treating symptoms alone, and treat according to syndrome differentiation

Treatment based on syndrome differentiation is a characteristic of TCM treatment, and its superiority should be fully utilized in the treatment of advanced cancer. Symptomatic treatment is only a stopgap measure. When treating, we must grasp the whole process of the symptoms, the advance and retreat of the evil and the righteous, and the opposition of yin and yang. The more urgent and serious the disease is, the more accurate the syndrome differentiation must be, and the more accurate the medication must be. Once the syndrome differentiation is clear, the treatment should be lenient and severe. Treating the head for a headache and the foot for a foot pain may satisfy the immediate effect, but if we plan for the long term, we may miss the opportunity for treatment. In advanced cancer, the evil and the righteous are in chaos, and it is often the case that if you want to attack the evil, you will hinder the righteous, and if you want to support the righteous, you will help the evil. Only by accurately distinguishing the syndrome can we achieve the purpose of treatment.

3. Avoid using medication alone, and seek psychiatric treatment

For advanced cancer, drug treatment is of course very important, but spiritual treatment is even more necessary. If the patient does not actively cooperate, even if the drug and the disease are compatible, it will be difficult to be effective. When many cancer patients know that they have a terminal illness, some simply refuse treatment and wait for death. Some people, although they accept treatment, lack confidence. This is what is called spiritual progress and weak will, so it cannot be cured.

4. Avoid treatment without fixed rules, and be cautious and random

Advanced cancer is full of changes. Sometimes it is peaceful today, but full of danger tomorrow. Sometimes it seems to be incurable, and the disease is chronic and cannot be cured overnight. No matter how many changes it may have, you must make careful diagnosis and careful observation, repeatedly consider, and have a clear plan, and attack and supplement at the right time. After nursing, the vitality will gradually turn around, and the positive will be restored and the negative will retreat. If you don't understand this principle, the medicine you take is not effective, and you turn to another prescription, the result will be contrary to your expectations. When treating patients, you have a set of rules and can adapt to changes, which is the best.