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Article: Using Chinese medicine to treat the side effects of radiation in cancer therapy.
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- Townsend Letter: The Examiner of Alternative Medicine
- Article date:
- August 1, 2006
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Keywords: Chinese medicine, Chinese herbal medicine, oncology, radiation, side effects
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According to Isaac Cohen, et al. in "Traditional Chinese Medicine in the Treatment of Breast Cancer:"
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The current trend in China is to integrate, or combine, Western
therapies with TCM [Traditional Chinese Medicine] in the treatment of
breast cancer. There are no available statistics on the proportion of
women using this approach. Our collaborators in China estimate that
about 70%-80% of women diagnosed with breast cancer in the
metropolitan areas, where Western medicine (WM) is favoured, are using
the ...