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Article: Treatment principles in Chinese medicine for modern integrated cancer care.(Clinical report)
- Article from:
- The Journal of Chinese Medicine
- Article date:
- October 1, 2007
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Abstract
Chinese medicine has been treating cancers for as long as this disease has been causing suffering to humankind. In the last 60 years in China, Chinese medicine has been treating cancers alongside conventional medicine. This integrated form of treatment from the Chinese medicine perspective has its basis in the classical and modern theory of how cancers evolve and how to treat them. This paper covers the treatment principles of cancer according to classical and modern Chinese medicine concepts integrated with Western medicine protocols and newer pharmacological research into the use of Chinese herbal medicine within oncology.
Keywords: Cancer, ...