Characteristics of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Treating Skin Cancer

Clinical practice has shown that high-dose radiotherapy and chemotherapy for patients with advanced skin cancer, or chemotherapy for patients with drug resistance, can only make the patients weaker and endanger their lives. For patients with advanced skin cancer, the purpose of treatment should be to relieve pain, improve the quality of life, and control the disease, so as to achieve long-term survival with the tumor. In this regard, traditional Chinese medicine has its unique advantages in the treatment of skin cancer.

1. Traditional Chinese medicine treatment has a strong holistic concept.

For skin cancer patients, although the cancer is located in the skin, it is actually a systemic disease, so local treatment cannot solve the fundamental problem. Traditional Chinese medicine starts from the holistic concept, treats based on syndrome differentiation, and considers local treatment while also taking the method of strengthening the body's constitution, which plays an important role in improving the patient's local symptoms and systemic condition.

2. It can make up for the deficiencies of surgical treatment, radiotherapy and chemotherapy.

Surgery can certainly remove the cancerous part, but it cannot remove residual cancer, regional lymph node metastasis, or cancer thrombus in blood vessels. If combined with Chinese medicine treatment after surgery or during radiotherapy or chemotherapy, it can effectively prevent recurrence and metastasis, and can also reduce the side effects caused by radiotherapy and chemotherapy, thereby enhancing the effect of radiotherapy and chemotherapy. For patients with advanced cancer or those who cannot undergo surgery, radiotherapy, or chemotherapy, Chinese medicine treatment is undoubtedly a better choice.