Treatment of breast cancer requires attention to Chinese medicine conditioning

Traditional Chinese medicine calls incurable diseases incurable diseases. The four incurable diseases in traditional Chinese medicine are wind, tuberculosis, ascites, and diaphragm. There are also four incurable diseases in surgery, which are loss of glory, tongue carbuncle, breast rock, and kidney rock flower. The breast rock here is what modern medicine calls breast cancer. It can be seen that breast cancer has been a difficult disease to treat since ancient times. Breast cancer is one of the most common malignant tumors in women. Modern medical treatment emphasizes comprehensive treatment including surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, endocrine, biological treatment, traditional Chinese medicine, etc. "Comprehensive treatment with effective therapy as the main treatment" has become a recognized treatment method for breast cancer. Traditional Chinese medicine treatment can be used throughout any link.

Although the development of modern medicine has brought revolutionary treatment to breast cancer patients, it also has certain shortcomings, mainly manifested in the lack of attention to quality of life. In recent years, modern medicine has realized the importance of quality of life. For example, the development of breast-conserving surgery, axillary-conserving surgery and the replacement of antiemetic drugs are all manifestations of humanized treatment. However, fundamentally, the main treatment focus is still the "disease" of the person, not the sick "person". Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the body is primary and the spirit is secondary, and the two are interdependent and inseparable. "The body is the home of the spirit, and the spirit is the master of the body." They are indispensable in human life activities and the treatment of diseases. "Therefore, the body and the spirit can be together, and they can live to the end of their lives." Therefore, in the process of improving the quality of life of breast cancer patients, traditional Chinese medicine syndrome differentiation treatment has shown unique advantages. Long-term clinical practice has also shown the importance of traditional Chinese medicine in improving the quality of life in the treatment of breast cancer.

A large number of clinical observations and experimental research results have shown that traditional Chinese medicine has broad indications and unique advantages in the treatment of breast cancer during the perioperative, perichemotherapy, periradiotherapy and consolidation periods. From a holistic perspective, by adjusting the balance of the body's yin and yang, qi and blood, and viscera functions, traditional Chinese medicine can reduce the toxic and side effects of surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and endocrine therapy, improve the patient's quality of life, and at the same time, by adjusting the body's functions, enhance anti-tumor immunity, and prevent postoperative recurrence and metastasis of breast cancer.