Rencun - Cancer Management With Chinese Medicine: Prevention And Complementary Treatments (Revised Edition)

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Names: Yu, Rencun, author. | Hong, Hai, 1943 author.

Title: Cancer management with Chinese medicine / by Hong Hai & Rencun Yu.

Description: Revised edition. | New Jersey : World Scientific, 2016. |

Authors names reversed on the first edition. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016045198 | ISBN 9789813203884 (hardcover : alk. paper)

Subjects: | MESH: Neoplasms--therapy | Medicine, Chinese Traditional--methods

Classification: LCC RC271.A62 | NLM QZ 266 | DDC 616.99/406--dc23

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CONTENTS

(Hong Hai)

(Hong Hai)

(Hong Hai)

(Yu Rencun*)

(Yu Rencun*)

(Yu Rencun*)

(Hong Hai & Yu Rencun)

*Translated and edited by Hong Hai

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Yu Rencun is Honorary Director and Professor at the Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine. He was trained in Western medicine before undergoing an extensive course in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). He has been engaged in cancer research for over 50 years and treated numerous cancer patients in China and various parts of Southeast Asia. He has been Advisor to the Oncology Committee of the Chinese Association for the Integration of Traditional and Western Medicine and the Singapore Thong Chai Medical Institution. For his outstanding contributions to cancer treatment and TCM, Professor Yu has been awarded over 20 prizes by the China Ministry of Health and the Beijing Municipal Government.

Hong Hai is Adjunct Professor at the Nanyang Technological University and Director of the Renhai Clinic, Singapore. Trained originally in engineering and economics, Professor Hong later studied Chinese medicine in Singapore and Beijing, and has been a registered practising TCM physician since 2003. His research work on the scientific basis for TCM at universities in Beijing and the UK is published in Principles of Chinese Medicine: A Modern Interpretation (Imperial College Press, 2016). He is a past member of the Singapore TCM Practitioners Board and chairman of its academic committee, and has served as Chairman of the Singapore Government Parliamentary Committee on Health.

PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION

Following the favourable reception of the book after its publication in 2012, we have added coverage of four more common cancers, namely prostate cancer, lymphoma, leukemia, and pancreatic cancer, with selected case studies. Appendix I on Herbs for Cancer Therapy has been expanded.

We hope the book will continue to be useful to the general reader, patients and their caregivers, as well as medical professionals interested in complementing Western medical interventions with Chinese herbal treatments to strengthen the patients immune system and resolve imbalances resulting from their illness as well as from surgery, radiation therapy and chemotherapy.

We would like to thank Ms Soh Shan Bin of the Renhai Clinic for helping with the translation of the new materials and updating the compilation of herbal information.

PREFACE TO THE 1ST EDITION

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) as a system of healing and health preservation has much to offer in the prevention and management of cancers. For patients who have contracted the ailment, TCM is generally not able to offer a complete cure although there have been claims and anecdotal evidence relating to successful treatments.

Playing a complementary role to Western medical treatments of cancer is where TCM can make, and has made, important contributions. Cancer patients usually exhibit clinical conditions that TCM recognize as internal disorders, such as poor flow of qi, blood stasis, deficiency of qi or blood, and internal heat. Treatments like surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy often leave the patient with severe side effects and in a weakened state. TCM treatments can help the patient manage these conditions by strengthening the immune system, facilitating flow, and eliminating toxins. This helps the patient in recovery or brings about a better quality of life.

This book offers the reader the benefit of Professor Yus decades of experience combining TCM therapy with Western treatments of cancer. It also provides advice on diet and living habits that help prevent cancer or assist in recovery.

For those unfamiliar with TCM theory, we have included introductory chapters on TCM principles and herbal medications.

We gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Dr Zhang Zhichen of the Beijing University of Chinese Medicine and TCM physicians Karen Wee and Doreen Low of Nanyang Technological University in the translation to English of parts of book.

Cancer is a complex family of diseases. In recent decades, rapid advances in the introduction of new drugs, surgical interventions and other therapeutic methods have been made by modern medicine in the treatment of cancers. Many early-stage cancers can now be cured and life can be prolonged for late-stage cancers with these new methods.

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) does not in general offer treatment of cancers with a view to the complete elimination of disease. Rather, it directs itself to helping the body to strengthen and balance itself to give the patient the best chance of overcoming or living with the disease. After patients have undergone chemotherapy, radiotherapy and/or surgery, TCM can often help fortify the patient against the side effects of these therapies, or repair the immune system that has been affected by the toxicity of certain drugs used in chemotherapy. In some instances, with the consent of the Western oncologist treating the patient, TCM herbs can be used concurrently with chemotherapy and radiotherapy to help the patient cope with the side effects of those treatments.