Tag: Advanced Cancer

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Ketogenic diet, is it worth trying for patients with advanced cancer?

Dr. Clove has recommended two popular science articles related to ketogenic diet before. Is the legendary anti-cancer [ketogenic diet] really useful? > > and < < Ketogenic Therapy Can [Starve] Cancer Cells? > >, I happen to be engaged in relevant work and have some of my own ideas and experiences. I hope I can communicate with you. First, ketogenic diet is effective in treating epilepsy. Ketogenic diet, as one of the methods to treat refractory epilepsy, has been effective since it was invented in 1920s. From 2007 to 2008, Dr. Liao Jianxiang of Shenzhen Children’s Hospital and the Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, where I am located, introduced this therapy into China. Our experience is: 1/3 patients Read More …

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Is there really no cure for advanced cancer? (2)

Editor’s Note: After refuting the statement that [advanced cancer is really incurable], this article provides some treatment methods for advanced cancer. Of course, according to the difference of family economic situation and outlook on life, when facing advanced cancer, patients and their families can decide whether to receive treatment and which treatment to receive according to the doctor’s advice. Systemic therapy-drug therapy is the main treatment for advanced cancer. Drug therapy includes chemotherapy, hormone therapy, targeted drug therapy, immunotherapy and drug therapy for bone metastases. 1. Chemotherapy is ineffective? That’s a rumor. Chemotherapy, There is still great curative effect in most advanced cancers. Although drug resistance often occurs in advanced cancers, However, chemotherapy is still the first choice for treatment. Read More …

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Is there really no cure for advanced cancer? (Part I)

What is advanced cancer? Cancer is at an advanced stage, Often implies that diversion has taken place, In a state of continuous progress and aggravation, Completely lose the hope of [radical cure]. The [radical cure] mentioned here, It refers to the clinical (naked eye, microscope, imaging) that the cancer focus in the body has been completely removed. Symptoms disappear completely. In fact, some tiny cancer foci may survive unknown until the cancer recurs. Advanced cancer does not necessarily mean metastasis and spread. For example, some intracranial malignant tumors, although not metastasized to organs other than the head, still belong to advanced stage. Cancer with metastasis and spread is not necessarily advanced cancer, such as some metastatic testicular cancer and thyroid Read More …

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Which molecular targeted drug can be taken for advanced lung cancer is what?

Editor’s Note: Lung cancer is the tumor with the highest morbidity and mortality rate in our country. On the morning of May 20, 2016, the State Health Planning Commission released a news report that there are several drugs with a [tinib] in their names. For the treatment of advanced non-small cell lung cancer, there will be a sharp drop in prices and some areas may be included in medical insurance. Many media reported the news, and at that time patients and their families ran to tell each other. Is this medicine really so good? Can all lung cancer patients take these drugs? These are what’s magic drugs? These drugs mentioned in the news are a large category of drugs called Read More …