Is Chinese medicine treatment needed after interventional treatment for liver cancer? Principles of Chinese medicine diagnosis and treatment after interventional treatment for liver cancer

Patients' families often ask whether they need to take Chinese medicine after interventional treatment for liver cancer. Different doctors will have different answers to this question!

Perhaps most Western doctors do not advocate the use of Chinese medicine, believing that it lacks scientificity, that is, there is no evidence of evidence-based medicine, while Chinese medicine tends to use Chinese medicine, and most patients and their families hope to "combine Chinese and Western medicine." In fact, this is also a problem that needs to be viewed dialectically. Generally speaking, most liver cancer patients have a basis of hepatitis and cirrhosis, and their liver function is poor. After intervention, the liver function will further decline, so it is still very helpful to use some Chinese medicine to protect the liver and improve immunity, that is, "strengthen the body." The use of anti-tumor Chinese medicine may not have much benefit, because the intervention has just been done, and the drugs and embolic agents will remain in the tumor for a relatively long time (we have observed the tumor specimens removed by surgery 2 months after the intervention, and there are still hemorrhage, necrosis and inflammatory reactions in them), and the anti-tumor effect of Chinese medicine is not stronger than that of Western medicine. On the contrary, due to its toxic side effects, it may cause further damage to liver function (some people think that Chinese medicine is non-toxic and harmless, which is a huge misunderstanding! We recently had a patient in the ward. After two interventions, the liver cancer was completely necrotic for more than 3 years. Recently, he took Chinese medicine and developed drug-induced hepatitis. As a result, the bilirubin rose to more than 140 and the transaminase was more than 500. After 2 weeks of treatment, more than 20,000 yuan was spent. Now the bilirubin has dropped to more than 40.)

You must go to a regular hospital to take Chinese medicine, and never trust the so-called "secret recipes"! Because the so-called secret recipes are often overdoses of drugs, claiming that you will be fine if you can get through it, and that it is effective. There is also a possibility that hormones are added to the medicine (it may have been prednisone in the past). After taking it, you feel better, have a better appetite, get fatter, and have smoother skin ("Cushing's" disease), but the tumor grows bigger, and the spirit is not good after stopping the medicine. We have encountered 3 such patients, so you must have your own opinions and don't be fooled!