Breast cancer is a common cancer in women, and in recent years, the incidence of upward trend. Current clinical practice, treatment of breast cancer increasing emphasis on integrated treatment, in order to harness the advantages of the various therapies. In China, the comprehensive treatment of breast cancer, the reason why a place in Chinese medicine treatment, it is because Chinese medicine has a unique features. In the course of treatment of breast cancer in the different stages can be ongoing medical treatment.
1 the combination of medicine and surgery
Surgical treatment is the treatment of breast cancer, the most important means of preoperative diagnosis and surgical advances in technology, improved surgical treatment. But the postoperative recurrence or metastasis is still one of the main threats to survival, so the process of surgical treatment should also attach importance to a comprehensive treatment, attention to the protection function of the body against cancer. Chinese medicine in breast cancer patients before and after use are: one, to regulate and fortify surgical injury, for rehabilitation, which will help patients to receive other treatments; 2, supplementary postoperative treatment to prevent or reduce the recurrence and metastasis and prolong survival time; 3, preoperative use of Chinese medicine, can improve the body condition, their strength and conditioning due to other diseases caused by liver and kidney dysfunction, the benefit of surgery.
2 Chinese medicine and radiation therapy combination
Radiation therapy directly kill the tumor cells, but also damage normal tissue, Chinese medicine-assisted breast cancer radiation therapy, have the following meanings:
Chinese medicine to reduce radiation side effects: Chinese medicine, radiation is the heat-toxin, heat-toxin can be Shangyin, hurt gas; heat Poison Pifei other organs. Namely: radiation therapy to kill both local tumor cells, but also injury to normal tissue cells, Chinese medicine can reduce or prevent its injury.
Traditional Chinese Medicine for radiation therapy have a certain synergy: Traditional Chinese medicine Astragalus, heterophylla, Chinese yam, peach kernel, etc. Yiqihuoxue of the agent, combined radiation therapy, treatment of breast cancer, an increase of radiation effect, extended the survival time.
3 Chinese medicine combined with chemotherapy
With the new breast cancer chemotherapy drugs emerging, anticancer drug pharmacology, pharmacodynamics progress, increasingly wide application of chemotherapy drugs, traditional Chinese medicine combined with chemotherapy in the combined treatment of breast cancer in the highest proportion of study a very wide:
Improve the effectiveness of chemotherapy in Chinese medicine: Chinese medicine in intervention with systemic chemotherapy or chemotherapy for breast cancer, the effect of an increase in remission rate
To reduce chemotherapy side effects: side effects of chemotherapeutic drugs is manifested mainly bone marrow suppression, gastrointestinal adverse reactions, and affect the heart, liver and renal function. Chinese think this is a chemotherapy drug injury of human blood, fine-chun; injury caused internal organs function, Chinese medicine can be reduced and improvement of these side effects.
Nearly four decades, Chinese medicine, integrated Chinese and Western medicine in prevention and treatment of breast cancer, promote the traditional Chinese medicine theory, traditional Chinese medicine treatment principles (dialectic combination with identified disease, partial and overall combination of righting with Quxie combination) and the Law (Fuzheng Pei this, heat detoxification, blood circulation, Ruanjian Sanjie, etc.), and summarized several treatment. Has also developed a number of years, traditional Chinese medicine treatment of breast cancer drugs, has developed a number of traditional Chinese medicine treatment of breast cancer technology to enable people to awareness of breast cancer prevention and treatment of Chinese medicine has entered a new stage.
