Three advantages of using traditional Chinese medicine to prevent and treat tumor / 中西医结合学报
Journal of Integrative Medicine
; (12): 331-335, 2014.
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ABSTRACT
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), an important component of complementary and alternative medicine, has evolved over thousands of years with its own unique system of theories, diagnostics and therapies. TCM has been increasingly used in the last decades and become well known for its significant role in preventing and treating cancer. We believe that TCM possesses advantages over Western medicine in specific aspects at a certain stage of cancer treatment. Here we summarize the advantages of TCM from three aspects: preventing tumorigenesis; attenuating toxicity and enhancing the treatment effect; and reducing tumor recurrence and metastasis.
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Main subject:
Pathology
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Drugs, Chinese Herbal
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Chemoprevention
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Drug Therapy
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Medicine, Chinese Traditional
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Neoplasms
Type of study:
Diagnostic_studies
Limits:
Animals
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Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
Journal of Integrative Medicine
Year:
2014
Document type:
Article