Treatment of advanced esophageal cancer

The early symptoms of esophageal cancer are very mild. Mild symptoms include occasional discomfort when swallowing food, discomfort behind the sternum, burning sensation or pain, a local foreign body sensation or friction when food passes through, and sometimes stagnation or mild obstruction in a certain part of the body when swallowing food. By the time obvious symptoms appear, it is already in the late stage. Compared with early esophageal cancer, late stage esophageal cancer is more difficult to treat. So what are the treatment options for late stage esophageal cancer?

Surgical treatment:

Surgical resection is mainly used for the resection of early esophageal cancer. Patients in the middle stage can also undergo palliative surgery. However, this treatment has the disadvantages of large trauma, many complications, and easy recurrence. Obviously, surgical treatment is not the best choice for advanced esophageal cancer!

Chemoradiation therapy:

Radiotherapy and chemotherapy are the first choice for patients with advanced esophageal cancer who have lost the chance of surgical treatment. Radiotherapy and chemotherapy can quickly and directly inhibit and kill cancer cells. The short-term efficacy is relatively significant, but the long-term efficacy often fails to achieve the expected effect. However, radiotherapy and chemotherapy also have serious toxic side effects. While killing cancer cells, they also harm normal cells, causing the patient's immunity to decline and a series of complications, such as hair loss, vomiting, decreased appetite, and decreased white blood cells and platelets. However, these numerous side effects are feared and unbearable for many esophageal cancer patients.

Treatment with Chinese medicine:

According to TCM, the root cause of esophageal cancer is weak yang qi and decreased body function. The main treatment is to warm yang and replenish qi, support positive qi, and improve body function. Therefore, the main treatment prescription should reflect this TCM treatment principle. The syndromes of esophageal cancer are different, and the legislation and medication are also different. However, the treatment methods are always related to soothing the liver and regulating qi, descending adverse qi and removing blood stasis, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, softening and dispersing nodules, strengthening the body, promoting body fluid and moistening dryness, clearing away heat and detoxifying, anti-cancer and analgesic, warming yang and replenishing qi, etc.

Traditional Chinese medicine treats esophageal cancer by taking pure natural Chinese herbal medicine, which can treat both the symptoms and the root cause, kill cancer cells, improve immunity, etc. It can effectively control the disease, relieve discomfort symptoms, and enable the patient to achieve significant improvement in the shortest time possible, thereby prolonging the life cycle.

The triple balance therapy of traditional Chinese medicine has been widely used in clinical practice and has achieved good results. The essence of triple balance therapy is to grasp the key pathogenesis of "deficiency", "stasis" and "toxicity", take a comprehensive approach, adopt the three major countermeasures of "strengthening the body", "unblocking" and "detoxifying", and use targeted and focused medications to treat and treat the three aspects of strengthening the body, tonifying deficiency, unblocking and removing stasis, and attacking and detoxifying according to the specific conditions of the patient, so as to achieve the fundamental purpose of regulating the balance of the body's yin and yang, qi and blood, and the physiological functions of the internal organs.

The "Triple Balance Therapy" combines medication, diet therapy, and psychology. No matter what stage of development or physical condition the patient is in, especially advanced patients who cannot undergo surgery or chemotherapy, can also receive treatment and rehabilitation under the guidance of experts. The outstanding efficacy of this therapy over the years has changed the misconception that cancer cannot be cured. Many patients have achieved ideal results after the "Triple Balance Therapy". Even if the tumor cannot be completely eliminated in some patients, as long as the vitality is restored, they can live with the tumor and even work with the tumor.

It can be seen from this that as long as we can face the esophageal cancer condition squarely, build confidence in treatment, and choose appropriate treatment according to the patient's specific situation, we can achieve the goal of smooth eating, improve the patient's quality of life and prolong life.