The Treatment Experience of Elderly AML Patients after Chemotherapy with TCM by SHEN Yiping / 浙江中医药大学学报

ABSTRACT

[Purpose] To summarize SHEN Yiping's clinical experience and academic views about treatment of elderly acute myeloid leukemia(AML) patients with traditional Chinese medicine(TCM).[Method] By means of learning form Professor SHEN in the clinic,collect cases and analyze them,and then conclude his clinical thought and dialectical methods,further summarize his clinical experience and academic views.[Result] Professor SHEN Yiping believes that these patients have deficiency of the lung,spleen and kidney,easily form the unhealthy environmental influences with shapes such as phlegm,damoeness,blood stasis,meeting with invaded by the invasion,causing the results of the happening of the disease.The functions of Zang-fu are damaged after chemotherapy,with the presentation of deficiency of qi and yin.Professor SHEN thinks that the treatment should be tonifying lung,spleen and kidney,dispelling the pathological products such as phlegm,dampness,blood stasis,eliminating the invasion at the same time.For those patients who are in remission,we should use the therapy of purging fire and maintaining yin,in order to remove leukemia residual of lesions thoroughly.Professor SHEN uses the anticancer drugs which could clear away heat and toxic frequently in order to depress the proliferation of the leukemia cells.[Conclusion]Professor SHEN is well-versed in the learning of both TCM and modern medicine,abundant clinical experience and rigorous dialectical methods,skilled in using TCM to treat elderly AML patients.He also has peculiar methods for the treatment of patients with recurrence of leukemia.His clinical experience and academic thoughts are worth learning and communication for us.