Make your cancer treatment as smooth as possible
Complementary and Integrative cancer clinic in Minnesota
New concept:
Siege Therapy
New approach:
Tumor microenvironment
Green Hydrogen
Anti-Warburg effect
New Hope:
Prolonged life expectancy
High quality of life
Less side effects
New concept: Siege Therapy
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Cancer usually begins with a genetic mutation in a single cell, resulting in unlimited proliferation and eventual metastasis to distant sites. In this process, in addition to cancer cells, microenvironmental support is also required, manifested by immune cells (including T cells, B cells, tumor-associated macrophages, natural killer cells, etc.), vascular endothelial cells, collagen cells, the joint effects of adipocytes, apoptotic cells, cell-free cancer DNA, exosome extracellular matrix, etc. They also require nutrient supply, acidic environment, and hypoxic environment.
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Almost all the cancer medications currently on the market are related to cancer cells, but no medications that improve the tumor microenvironment are available yet.
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As early as the 1960s, Chinese medicine practitioners discovered in their medical practice that killing cancer cells through simple chemotherapy, radiotherapy and other means could not improve the patient's quality of life or prolong the patient's life in many cases. However, using tonic traditional Chinese medicine, patients' quality of life has been significantly improved and their life span has been significantly extended. Moreover, long-term treatment can control tumor growth and even shrink tumors. Research now suggests that these are at least partly related to improving the tumor microenvironment. The effect of traditional Chinese medicine on tumors has also changed the concept of tumor treatment. Now, to evaluate the efficacy of a treatment, tumor shrinkage is no longer the only indicator, but the extension of life expectancy is more important.
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We believe that for cancer tissue, we need to not only attack it, but also surround its environment and cut off its resources to make it unsuitable for cancer to survive. Such a combination can minimize the off-target effects of chemotherapy and other treatments, making treatment more precise, peaceful and effective. This is the core concept of our siege therapy.
Figure is cited from Piñeiro Fernández J, Luddy KA, Harmon C, O'Farrelly C (2019). "Hepatic Tumor Microenvironments and Effects on NK Cell Phenotype and Function". International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 20 (17): 4131. doi:10.3390/ijms20174131. ISSN 1422-0067. PMC 6747260. PMID 31450598.
New approach: Focus on the tumor microenvironment: acidity, hypoxia and nutrient plunder, prevent cachexia.
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Our first step in siege therapy is to assist the patient in receiving conventional therapy. Cancer patients often undergo chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy, followed by surgery. However, chemotherapy and radiotherapy usually have many side effects, such as fatigue, nausea and vomiting, diarrhea, loss of appetite, edema, pain, peripheral neuropathy, leukopenia, thrombocytopenia, etc., causing patients to be unable to complete the entire treatment process, thus leading to treatment failure. Acupuncture can handle these side effects very well and is recommended by the National Cancer Institutes.
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In China, traditional Chinese medicine is a more commonly used treatment for cancer patients. 90% of Chinese cancer patients receive traditional Chinese medicine treatment. Due to various restrictions, ordinary people in China do not receive the latest cancer medications treatments in America. However, the median survival period of cancer patients in China is not much different from that in the United States. Among them, traditional Chinese medicine plays a big role.
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If conventional therapy cannot control the tumor, or the patient is unwilling to accept conventional therapy, we can also improve the quality of life and extend life through acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine, and some patients can experience complete disappearance of the tumor.
In addition to acupuncture and Chinese medicine, we also have green hydrogen therapy, therapy of anti-Warburg effect and other treatments.
New hope: quality of life, life expectancy, tumor shrinkage or remission.
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In addition to evidence-based medicine that has proven that traditional Chinese medicine can improve the quality of life and extend life span, our clinical experience has found that long-term regular treatment may even shrink or even make tumors to have spontaneous remission in some patients. With our new treatments, you have more options here to take care of your life.
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