Can malignant lymphoma be cured?

Can malignant lymphoma be cured? Malignant lymphoma is a highly malignant tumor. In the past, more than 90% of patients died within one year. However, this type of malignant lymphoma has also made the greatest progress in treatment. After nearly half a century of research, most malignant lymphomas discovered in the early stages are now expected to be cured. Therefore, malignant lymphoma is not an incurable disease.

What is certain is that radiotherapy and chemotherapy are the main measures for treating malignant lymphoma, and they have achieved remarkable results. In particular, the treatment effect of Hodgkin's disease has made significant progress, and the overall 10-year survival rate has increased to more than 50%, and the vast majority of them may have been cured. Radiotherapy plus chemotherapy has a significant effect. Most Hodgkin's disease can be cured through one or both of radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Radiotherapy alone can cure more than 90% of stage I or II patients. Treatment only needs to be performed in an outpatient clinic, and the course of treatment is about 45 weeks. The radiation site is the affected lymph nodes and surrounding lymph nodes. Chest lymph nodes that are significantly enlarged should be given chemotherapy before or after radiotherapy. Through this combined treatment, 85% of patients can be cured.

But for patients with advanced (stage III and IV) malignant lymphoma, the situation is not so optimistic. The therapeutic effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy coexist with toxic side effects, and ordinary people find it difficult to endure the torture of toxic side effects. Some people's quality of life is greatly reduced, and they lose the dignity of life. Some people suffer serious damage to their bodies, and some people die because they can't bear it.

In this regard, lymphoma experts said: patients blindly entrust their lives to big hospitals and big experts, and these big hospitals and big experts just throw them to surgery, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy. Almost all lymphoma patients will receive this "courtesy". If they succeed, it is their credit and the blessing of the patients. If they fail, it is attributed to the fact that lymphoma is too dangerous. Patients and their families can only blame themselves for their bad luck! The disregard for life is chilling! Chemotherapy and radiotherapy can indeed have an "immediate" effect to a certain extent, but for patients with weak middle and late stage lymphoma, the great trauma of surgery and the large doses of chemotherapy and radiotherapy will make the patients weaker and their immune function worse; they may even accelerate the progression of the disease and lead to the death of the patients.

Experts pointed out that Chinese medicine has been practiced for more than 2,000 years, with a long history and profoundness. It has formed its own unique theory, including the understanding of etiology and pathogenesis, as well as a series of internal treatment, external treatment and syndrome differentiation methods, which have shown good clinical efficacy and even significantly prolonged the survival of patients with advanced lymphoma in my country. Some were declared to have only two months to live when they were treated abroad, but they lived for one or two years after returning to China for Chinese medicine recuperation; some had surgery combined with Chinese medicine intervention for long-term consolidation, and achieved the same survival and quality of life as ordinary people. Facts speak louder than words, and tens of thousands of successful cases have repeatedly confirmed that the use of reasonable Chinese medicine at the same time as surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy will greatly reduce its toxic side effects and achieve better treatment results. And there are many cases showing that Chinese medicine alone can often allow lymphoma patients to "survive from desperate situations"!

One of the advantages of TCM supportive treatment: combined treatment of local and overall

According to modern medical theory, tumor is a systemic disease, which is the local reflection of the whole disease. Therefore, after the local lesion is removed, it is necessary to adjust the whole body. Otherwise, the residual cancer lesions and toxins can still be dormant in the blood, internal organs, bones or local skin and flesh, resulting in ascites and lesion metastasis. Chinese medicine can select the methods of clearing away heat and dampness, removing blood stasis and phlegm, detoxifying and reducing swelling, clearing turbid toxins, softening and dispersing nodules to inhibit and kill cancer cells and prevent recurrence according to the various pathological symptoms produced by patients after surgery, during or after radiotherapy and chemotherapy.

In addition, modern studies have shown that the occurrence and development of tumors are closely related to the body's immune function. Due to the disorder of the body's immune function, the mutated cells in the body cannot be effectively cleared by the immune system and escape, leading to tumor occurrence. After the occurrence of a tumor, the tumor tissue cells consume a large amount of nutrients due to rapid proliferation; at the same time, due to the damage of the tumor to the body, fever, pain, and gastrointestinal dysfunction occur, blocking the intake of food and reducing the body's intake. All these lead to malnutrition and further decline in the body's immunity. Traditional Chinese medicine can regulate the patient's immune function, improve the body's immune status, enhance the efficacy of radiotherapy and chemotherapy, reduce the toxic and side effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy, reduce the recurrence and metastasis rate, inhibit tumor cell proliferation, induce cell apoptosis, improve the patient's quality of life and prolong life. In clinical practice, many lymphoma patients who have undergone postoperative radiotherapy and chemotherapy have adopted traditional Chinese medicine consolidation treatment, and their survival period has exceeded 5 years and they are still alive. Traditional Chinese medicine has a certain understanding of the integrity and unity of the human body. Combining local treatment with overall treatment is the overall view of traditional Chinese medicine and integrated Chinese and Western medicine in treating tumors.

The second advantage of TCM supportive treatment: Treat cancer based on syndrome differentiation and strengthen the body first

Tumor differentiation and treatment based on syndrome differentiation is the main method of TCM treatment. TCM attaches great importance to the idea of ​​"treating the disease at its root". The symptoms of tumors are very complex, but the main contradiction comes from the tumor. It is necessary to take into account the patient's physique, spleen and stomach function, mental state, and various internal factors, and not just attack indiscriminately.

Traditional Chinese medicine treatment starts with the overall approach, strengthening the body, replenishing qi and nourishing blood, softening and dispersing nodules, and improving the body's immunity. Due to the side effects of cancer itself and long-term radiotherapy and chemotherapy, poor appetite, nausea, vomiting, weight loss, malnutrition, cachexia, and exhaustion are often the main contradictions of lymphoma patients. If not properly resolved, it can easily endanger life. Traditional Chinese medicine conditioning, mild anti-cancer, and conditioning the patient's digestive tract function will make the patient feel hungry and increase their appetite; at the same time, it regulates the heart, liver, and kidney functions, and the patient's body circulation changes will make him strong and his face shiny. When the body's immunity is restored to a level that can fight cancer cells, the patient can often turn danger into safety, and achieve the goal of stabilizing the disease under the long-term conditioning of traditional Chinese medicine. Some patients even achieve the goal of long-term survival with tumors.

The third advantage of TCM supportive treatment: strengthening the body and eliminating pathogens, two-way regulation

Tumor cells counterattack very quickly. If you are not careful, the enemy's strength will overwhelm the strength of the square. At this time, the conditioning of traditional Chinese medicine is crucial. From the perspective of combining traditional Chinese and Western medicine, surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy, and some Chinese herbal medicines all belong to the category of expelling evil, while the treatment of strengthening the body and nourishing the root of the body by traditional Chinese medicine belongs to the category of strengthening the body. From the treatment of lung cancer patients mentioned above, it can be seen that chemotherapy has been proven to be ineffective. The body's chemotherapy poison and pathological metabolites such as dampness, heat, stasis, turbidity, and poison must be removed immediately, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable. Traditional Chinese medicine syndrome differentiation selects drugs to clear away heat and dampness, remove stasis and expel phlegm, reduce toxicity and increase efficacy, and seek benefits and avoid harm. Its effects of replenishing qi and nourishing blood, strengthening the body and strengthening the root can improve the body's immunity, effectively resist the toxic and side effects of chemotherapy, eliminate evil without hurting the body, and strengthen the body without leaving evil. In addition, traditional Chinese medicine supportive treatment can also promote tumor cell proliferation, from the dormant stage to the division stage, and the sensitivity of tumor cells in the division stage to radiotherapy and chemotherapy increases, which improves the treatment effect, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.