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  • Hyperthermia

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    Hyperthermia
    The word “hyperthermia” comes from the Greek of which original meaning is “heat” or “overheat”. Hyperthermia is a physical therapy in which heat is transferred to the body to achieve its treatment goal through all kinds of heat sources. Common hyperthermia can be divided into three categories, i.e., diathermy, photo-thermal therapy and conductive heat therapy.

    The blood circulation of the cancer cell population is quite special, as its blood capillary is fragile and the population has low heat dissipation. Therefore, when the whole-body temperature reaches 40.5℃, the temperature of local tumor tissue can be up to 45℃ or above. The sustained high temperature for a short period makes the tumor tissue and cancer cell die and encourages apoptosis but normal histocyte survives. In the mean time, high temperatures can damage tumor angiogenesis and inhibit the infiltration and metastasis of tumor cell through inhibiting the vitality of vascular endothelial growth factor in the tumor and matrix metalloproteinases.

    Hyperthermia can boost the immune system, strengthen the vitality and immunity of Natural Killer cells (NK cells), T lymphocyte and macrophage. Meta-protein of tumor cell and breakdown products of necrotic tissue produced by hyperthermia can boost specific immunity for anti-tumors and enhance body immunity to fight tumors.

    Additionally, hyperthermia can open up the pores and cause people to sweat, which is a way to detoxify your body. If certain drugs are infused to the body during hyperthermia, their efficacy can be significantly improved. Moreover, hyperthermia can increase the sensitivity of chemotherapy and local radiotherapy.

    Local and Regional Hyperthermia
    Local hyperthermia means a heating method in which the heating range is limited to including pathologic changes in local tissues without the overall rise of temperature in the body. While regional hyperthermia is another form of local hyperthermia, with heat sources such as, microwave, radio frequency and ultrasonic waves. Some researchers include it with whole body hyperthermia because it can cause the rise of temperature of the whole body. The therapeutic range of regional hyperthermia includes early, medium and advanced malignant tumors in various parts of the trunk, except for the head, neck, and limbs.

    Whole Body Hyperthermia
    Whole body hyperthermia refers to a hyperthermia method whereby various heating methods are used to raise the temperature of the human body to reach the therapeutic temperature which is maintained for a certain period of time.

    The heating methods for whole body hyperthermia are divided into three categories: biological method, extracorporeal circulation method and superficial heating method. The biological method aims to heat the body by injection of microbial or biological agent, such as early injection of Coley toxin or short corynebacterium. It is rarely applied at present, because the degree of sensitivity reaction by the human body to the pyrogen is unpredictable and the heating temperature and time can not be easily controlled, resulting in high risk. The extracorporeal circulation method is to take some of the blood out of the body and heat it in vitro to a predetermined temperature with a special device, and then re-circulate it into the body to achieve elevated body temperature. This method is not popular due to high cost equipment and an elaborate procedural requirement.

    The superficial heating method refers to thermal energy transferred to the body by radiation or conduction, such as infrared radiation, hot water bath, hot wax bath, and electric blanket wrapping. However, hot water bath, hot wax bath, and electric blanket wrapping have been rarely applied since the 1980s due to their various defects. Infrared radiation has been widely accepted clinically due to its definite heating effect, fewer side effects, easy monitoring, and lower cost.

    Endoceliac Chemohyperthermia
    Endoceliac chemohyperthermia refers to the method that the wherein liquid with chemotherapeutic drugs is infused into the body cavity and kept for a certain amount of time using the heating equipment, aiming to cure malignant tumors. The current common chemohyperthermias include intraperitoneal chemohyperthermia, intrapleural Hyperthermic infusion chemotherapy, bladder chemohyperthermia, and pericardial cavity chemohyperthermia which are under research. Endoceliac chemohyperthermia is characterized by high concentrations of local drugs, and low systemic toxicity. It is the most recognized, mature and common method of hyperthermia.

    1.Intraperitoneal Chemohyperthermia
    Intraperitoneal chemohyperthermia, as a relatively mature method applied clinically, it aims to heat the liquid with the chemotherapeutic drug which is filled into the abdominal cavity and kept in constant temperature. Under the condition of high temperature, the liquidity of tumor cell membranes increases, and then the chemotherapeutic drug with synergistic effect enters and congregates there. Since the concentration of the drug in the abdominal cavity tissue is much higher than that in plasma, it can kill any intraperitoneal metastatic carcinoma without great systemic toxicity. For this reason, it is widely used on the intraperitoneal digestive tract, gynecological tumors and ascites.

    The indications of intraperitoneal chemohyperthermia mainly include treatment on peritoneal wide metastatic carcinoma (including gastric cancer, carcinoma of the large intestine, ovarian cancer, biliary cancer, pancreatic carcinoma, and peritoneal pseudo mucous gland cancer); prevention of postoperative peritoneal metastasis of gastric cancer, carcinoma of the large intestine, ovarian cancer, biliary cancer, pancreatic carcinoma, peritoneal pseudo mucous gland cancer; and treatment on malignant ascites. Its contraindications include; patients with intraperitoneal wide synechia, abdominal cavity with multiple tumors, complete intestinal obstruction, end-stage cachexia and severe cruor-promoting disorder.

    2.Intrapleural Chemohyperthermia
    As for the intrapleural chemohyperthermia, researchers adopt various methods and different apparatuses, but certain risks are present due to various physical limitations, such as vacuum sealing of the chest cavity, while the therapeutic result is invigorative and its efficiency on a malignant hydrothorax can be as high as 88% ~ 100%.

    Indications of intrapleural chemohyperthermia include: ① cancer hydrothorax accompanied by non-small cell lung cancer; ② diffused cancer focuses in the pleura; ③ breakage of tumor during therapy; ④ less residue of recurrent cancer after resection; ⑤ reoccurrence and metastasis after surgery. Its contraindications include: ① patients with poor constitutional condition (KPS score<60); ② patients with severe cardio-pulmonary dysfunction; ③ patients with tumor metastasis in the liver, brain, and bone; ④ patients with tuberculosis at tumor position; ⑤ fever, body temperature>38 ℃, or accompanied by active infection; ⑥leukocytes or blood platelets less than normal and patients with bleeding tendency.

    3.Bladder Chemohyperthermia
    Through modern hyperthermic technology, bladder chemohyperthermia aims to heat the perfusate continuously and maintain it for a certain period of time. The sensitization and synergistic effects of hyperthermic chemotherapy, which, with its definite anti-cancer properties and pharmacokinetics advantage, can effectively kill the free cancer cells in the bladder, eliminate smaller residual cancer foci, prevent and cure bladder cancer and its postoperative recurrence, and improve the clinical therapeutic effect on bladder cancer. It is a therapeutic method characterized by low cost, effectiveness, simple operation, less toxic and less side- effects, fewer complications, and repeatable treatments.

    Indications for bladder chemohyperthermia include  the following: postoperative patients with non-muscle invasive bladder cancer, bladder cancer in situ, mastoid tumors which are distributed widely and with ablation difficulty, palliative therapy of invasive bladder cancer which cannot tolerate surgery or multiple superficial bladder tumors which can not receive any surgery or unsuitable for surgery due to poor body condition, preoperative cooperative therapies on invasive bladder cancers, and prevention of high-risk patients from tumor evolution.

    Its contraindications include invasive tumors which have penetrated the bladder wall, urinary tract infections, and bladder inflammation.
    
    
  • Chelation Therapy

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    Chelation Therapy
    Studies have shown that the occurrence and development of cancer are closely related to the accumulation of all kinds of “toxins” in the body. The “toxins” not only include external harmful substance like the heavy metal, but also mutated cells, excessive free radicals and metabolic wastes. Choosing an effective way to eliminate these toxins is one of the significant treatment for cancer. The application of chelation therapy in cancer marks the progress of such therapy. Chelation therapy is a crucial part of Non-Toxic Integrative Cancer Treatment. It plays an important role in modern malignant tumor treatment.

    Chelation Therapy mainly applies Vitamin C, Vitamin B17 and chelating drugs for cancer treatment.

    Vitamin C is essential to the body and it is a common vitamin. Modern research has proven that Vitamin C can damage and kill cancer cell in a selective manner at pharmacologic concentration.

    Vitamin C does not harm normal cells and it is of vital importance in clinical application. This is the fundamental difference between Vitamin C and many chemotherapy drugs. Vitamin C can damage and kill malignant tumor cell selectively but has no negative effect on metabolism and organ function. Therefore, Vitamin C is available for several types of medium and advanced cancer patients. Vitamin C has strong potential in treating malignant tumor and its drug adaptability in patients is good. Vitamin C therapy has been used in treating malignant tumor for over 30 years and there is extensive foreign reports.

    Vitamin B17 plays an important role in Non-Toxic Integrative Cancer Treatment for its special function against malignant tumor. In the 1950s, Dr. Krebs found Vitamin B17 and first applied it in malignant cancer treatment. The anti-cancer theory of Vitamin B17 put forward by Dr. Krebs consists of two parts. First, cyanide hydride can damage and kill cancer cells. Secondly, cyanide hydride conducts non-toxic metabolism in the body. Several studies both domestic and foreign have proven that applying Vitamin B17 to advanced cancer patients can relieve symptoms, extend their life expectancy and alleviate side effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy.

    Chelation and detoxification therapy is a treatment that applies NaFeEDTA through intravenous drip. NaFeEDTA is not metabolized by the body but it works as chelating agent and reaches the tissue and organs through blood circulation. This chelating agent chelates the metal that accumulate in the tissue and organs, including calcium, iron, copper, lead, aluminum, mercury, arsenic, cadmium, nickel. Then a non-toxic, stable and soluble compound is formed. This compound is excreted from the body through the kidneys, eliminating the accumulated toxic heavy metal, to achieve the goal of chelation and detoxification. The mechanism of chelation and detoxification therapy includes four aspects which are; chelating heavy metal, remedying calcium overload, preventing the premature aging of cells and eliminating free radicals. Since the 1970s, the famous American scientist Cameron and Professor Pauling, who was honored with Nobel Prize twice have first applied chelation and detoxification therapy with a high dose of Vitamin C in integrative cancer treatment and achieved excellent curative effect.

    International Development

    The synergistic effect of Vitamin C and Vitamin K3
    In recent years, many medical scientists have studied that Vitamin C and Vitamin K3 have strong synergistic anti-cancer effects. Belgian medical scientists Taper and American oncologist Gilloteaux et al worked together to make a further study on this synergistic anti-cancer effect. It showed that the combination of Vitamin C and Vitamin K3 can boost the DNA enzymes in the cancer cells. The anti-cancer pharmacological properties of Vitamin K3 are related to its chemical structure naphthoquinone. Naphthoquinone produces hydrogen sulfide and amine in   intracellular metabolism. This has a direct cytotoxicity and destroys cancer cells. So far, there is no report about treating cancer patients with Vitamin K3 alone. However, there are several positive reports of clinical trial in regards to the combination of Vitamin C and Vitamin K3 in treating cancer patients.

    Ukrain
    It has been proven that Ukrain can inhibit and dissolve 60 types of cancer cells (brain, ovary,colon, kidney cancer, small and non-small cell lung cancer, sarcoma, leukemia and lymphoma). Also, Ukrain can inhibit the cell cycle in pro-phase and meta-phase through single tubulin and induce apoptosis in pancreatic cancer cell (Jurkat, THP-1, MIA PaCa2, BxPC3 and AxPC1). Ukrain selectively induces apoptosis in cancer cells but has no effect on normal cells. In the past 20 years, Ukrain has been used as an adjuvant drug in cancer treatment and its anti-tumor mechanism remains uncertain. Besides enhancing immune function, Ukrain injection can inhibit the growth of cancer cells during gap 2 phase or mitotic period, and it can induce apoptosis in cancer cells. The mechanism of inducing apoptosis in cancer cells may be inducing mitochondrial membrane depolarization and boosting caspase. The inducing function of Ukrain comes from the extraction of alkaloids from the celandine. 
    
    
  • Medical Ozone Therapy

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    Medical Ozone Therapy
    Cancer is the major killer harming human health. Surgery can remove visible tumor lesion, but it cannot remove residual malignant cells in the human body. Radiotherapy can kill localized tumor cells, but it would damage the surrounding healthy tissues. Chemotherapy can destroy part of sensitive cancer cells, but its toxicity inhibits bone marrow and reduces the human bodies’ resistance to fight the disease.

    Medical ozone can destroy tumor cells directly, improve oxygen supply of tissue, increase immunity, strengthen curative effect of chemotherapy and radiotherapy, reduce side effects dramatically to improve the quality of the patient’s life, prolong patients' life, and even cure the tumor altogether. Furthermore, there are no side effects on the normal tissues of human body.

    Treatment of Medical Ozone in Cancer
    Patient's blood is drawn, then re-transfused after it is ozonized. This process generates ozone blood circulation. When proper concentration of ozonized blood reaches the tumor tissue, the growing tumor cells and tumor cells with metabolic disorder are destroyed and killed directly by ozone as tumor cells lack protective ability. While normal cells have an anti-oxidant function, they will not be destroyed by ozone. Ozone is also utilized to enhance vitality. This is beneficial for recovery and achieves the goal of non-toxic treatment for tumors.

    As the metabolism of cancer cells accelerates, the cancer cells conduct anaerobic metabolism (glucolysis), which makes the tumor site lacking in oxygen. After applying tozone, oxygen content in tumor area increases to destroy the tumor. Meanwhile, ozone can activate immune cells and boost immune cells to produce interferon, interleukin and tumor necrosis factors. Medical ozone mobilizes anti-cancer functions of the human body contributing to treating cancer.

    Medical ozone therapy only targets at the diseased histocyte and does not harm normal tissue. There is no side effect and curative effect of medical ozone therapy which is remarkable, thus making medical ozone the best choice for cancer patients.

    Medical ozone treatment include extracorporeal blood oxygenation and ozonation (EBOO), ozonated saline injection, major autohemotherapy and rectal ozone insufflations, etc.

    Clinical observation found the quality of cancer patients’ life significantly improves after taking the medical ozone treatment. Additionally, their physical strength increases, appetite and sleep quality significantly improve. Their confidence in defeating tumor strengthens with prolonging their survival. Therefore, more and more patients are willing to choose and take medical ozone treatment to treat cancer.

    Medical ozone can treat various malignant tumors, such as; lung cancer, liver cancer, esophageal cancer, colorectal cancer, ovarian cancer, breast cancer, soft tissue sarcoma, lymphoma, bone cancer, skin cancer, brain tumors, and etc…

    Notes: The patients who suffer from acute myocardial infarction and hyperthyroidism should be cautious to apply medical ozone for the whole body treatment.
    
    
  • Nutritional Therapy

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    Nutritional Therapy
    Clinical Nutrition
    Nutritional therapy is an important part of cancer treatment. The cause of cancer remains uncertain. The domestic and international scholars consider the occurrence of cancer is the combined effect of several factors and it is the neoplasm that developed by abnormal cell proliferation in response to internal and external carcinogenic factors. The impact factors include heredity, nutrition, psychology and environment, etc. The dietary factor plays a vital role among all these factors. According to the U.S. National Cancer Institute and the World Cancer Institute, well-balanced nourishment can considerably reduce their risk of developing cancer by 30 to 40%. The development stage of cancer can be divided into initiation stage, promotion stage and the malignant progression stage. As tumors in the first two stages classify as relatively benign, the lesion can be reversed with sufficient and well-balanced nourishment. Some nutrients have excellent therapeutic value because they can even act as antioxidant, inhibit tumor angiogenesis and boost immunity. Among the 1.8 million annual new cancer cases in China, more than 80% suffer from weight loss and malnutrition and the prevalence of malnutrition among medium and advanced cancer patients is even higher. Both the clinical workers and researchers reach a consensus that malnutrition will reduce patient’s quality of life and affect the treatment on the primary disease and its prognosis.

    Clinical nutrition focuses on nutrition risk screening and nutritional evaluation in cancer patients. It also consists of nutrition consultation, nutrition education, enteral and parenteral nutritional therapy, nutrition product admixture service and design of diet. Nutrition Department provides different types of enteral nutrition preparations for patients, including elemental type, non-elemental type and module type. We also make individualized nutrition program for cancer patients’, which is based on their result of nutritional evaluation.   

    Combining clinical nutrition with herbal cuisine can provide more comprehensive nutritional support for cancer patients and improve their quality of life.

    Herbal Cuisine
    Traditional Chinese Medicine maintains that both foods and medicines are of equal importance as both are of the same source, possess the same theory of use, and have similar pharmacodynamics. The combination of herbal nourishment and food nourishment can improve the nutrition function as well as the spleen and stomach function of cancer patients. This can also strengthen body resistance, detoxify and eliminate pathogen. Herbal cuisine should change according to the type of cancer, treatment, physical condition and season. The application of Herbal cuisine should be guided by professional dietitians. It will cause the opposite effect because of incorrect application. As for Western Medicine, nutritional therapy like nutritional supplement therapy, enteral and parenteral nutritional support, body-alkalinization therapy and drinking water treatment, etc.

    Common Prescription Diets for Cancer Patient
    Gastric Cancer
    Dried Longan and Peanut Porridge with Donkey-Hide Gelatin
    Indication: gastric cancer patient of stomach yin deficiency. This porridge can benefit yin, nourish the stomach, strengthen the spleen and replenish the blood.

    Citrus Porridge
    Indication: Gastric cancer patient with vomit due to circulation of vital Qi in the wrong direction. This porridge can strengthen spleen, smoothen the flow of qi, calm the adverse-rising qi and stop vomit.

    Astragalus and Hericium Erinaceus Soup
    Indication: Gastric cancer of deficiency in Qi and blood. This soup can replenish the Qi and nourish the blood.

    Liver Cancer
    Chicken Stock and Coix Seed Porridge
    Indication: Liver cancer of spleen and stomach deficiency; patients with swelling in limbs, abdominal distension and poor appetite. This porridge can strengthen middle-jiao, benefit the Qi and induce the diuresis to alleviate edema.

    Silkie Stew with Pseudo Ginseng and American Ginseng
    Indication: liver cancer of Qi deficiency and blood stasis.

    Hawthorn and Soft-shelled Turtle Soup
    Indication: Liver cancer of Qi deficiency and stagnation. This soup is good at strengthening inborn Qi, promoting blood circulation, relieving pain, phlegm turbidity and blood stasis syndromes.

    Lung Cancer
    Honeysuckle and Pear Drink
    Indication: Lung cancer of phlegm-heat syndrome; patients that cough a lot and their phlegm are yellow and sticky. This drink is good at heat-clearing and detoxifying. It also nourishes the lung and reduces phlegm.

    Loquat and White Fungus Stew
    Indication: Lung cancer patient with yin deficiency and internal heat after taking radiotherapy and chemotherapy. This stew is good for nourishing the yin and lung, clearing heat and replenishing the Qi.

    Lotus Seed, Lily and Pork Soup
    Indication: Lung cancer of the Qi and yin deficiency. This soup can serve as an adjuvant therapy for radiotherapy and chemotherapy. It is beneficial for benefiting Qi, strengthening spleen, nourishing the lung and yin, clearing heat and relieving cough.

    Breast Cancer
    Honeysuckle and Astragalus Soup
    Indication: Heat-toxin accumulation syndrome; this soup can serves as adjuvant factor for breast pain and fester. It is beneficial for heat-clearing and detoxifying, while strengthening the bodies resistance.

    Leonurus and Flos Lonicerae Drink
    Indication: Qi stagnation and blood stasis syndrome. This drink can promote blood and Qi circulation, remove blood stasis and relieve phlegm turbidity and blood stasis syndromes.

    Astragalus, Wolfberry and Squab Stew
    Indication: Breast cancer of Qi and blood deficiency, liver and kidney deficiency syndromes. This stew can nourish the liver and the kidneys, replenish Qi and nourish the blood.

    Colon Cancer
    Pork Tripe and Water Chestnut Soup
    Indication: Intestinal cancer of the spleen and stomach deficiency. This soup helps in strengthening the spleen, benefits the Qi, clear heat and detoxify.

    Serissa Serissoides and Brown Sugar Drink
    Indication: Intestinal cancer patients with symptoms of loose bowels and bloody mucus in stool. This drink can cleanse intestines, resolve dampness, detoxify and fight cancer.
    
    
  • Body-Alkalinization Therapy

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    Body-Alkalinization Therapy
    According to the famous nutritionist Dr. Ragnar Berg, we should be eating about 80 percent alkaline forming foods and 20 percent acid forming foods at each meal to keep healthy. A Japanese study shows that most cancer patients have acid constitutions; German biochemists Dr. Otto Warburg hypothesized that hypoxic environment made the normal cell cancerate and the acidification of body fluids is closely associated with hypoxia.

    In the process of normal metabolism, the human body generates acid and alkaline substances continuously and ingests them from foods, so the pH level changes constantly. However, due to certain acid-base balance ability, the human body can keep a relative balance between acid and alkali under normal conditions, which is named acid-base balance. In this condition, the resistance of immune cells is the strongest, and the immunological function of the body is the best. When the constitution turns acidic, the activity of immune cells can be reduced greatly and the immunological function will be weakened accordingly, under which the activity of some viruses and bacteria are the strongest, the resistance of immune cells is reduced and body metabolism can slow down, hence the wastes can not be easily discharged and the visceral load increases. Therefore, some medical experts propose that the acidification of the body is likely to be one of the causes for inducing the occurrence of tumors. Studies indicate that the alkalescent and stable internal environment allows full play to the immune function. Through strengthening the body immune function, people’s ability to defeat pathogen and inhibit the proliferation of cancer cells can be improved. As the body-alkalinization therapy can positively regulate the immune system, it is applied for preventing tumors, improving health, etc.

    The body-alkalinization therapy mainly includes dietary therapy and drug therapy.

    Diet Therapy for Alkaline Constitution
    The differentiation between acidity and alkalinity in a food cannot depend on the intuitive reaction or subjective sensation of the food in the mouth. Generally speaking, any food containing more inorganic ingredients such as sulfur, iodine, phosphorics, can be recognized as an acidic food, while it is an alkaline food if it contains more ingredients such as sodium, calcium, potassium, magnesium, iron and copper. Because such foods after ingestion and absorption in the human body can generate influences on the acid-base level of the blood, they are associated with the health of the human body.

    In order to maintain the acid-base balance in the body, it’s appropriate to consume more vegetables and fruits such as natural fruit in the daily diet, with an applicable proportion of meat and vegetables as 1:4 or 3:7. Additionally, bad habits must be avoided, such as overstrain of cerebration, eye strain, staying up late and alcoholic intemperance. All of these behavior can consume a large quantity of amino acids and fats in the body within a short time, increase the acidic substances in the metabolites and affect the pH value of the body.

    Sodium Bicarbonate Therapy
    In 2000, Moss in Arizona of America first applied the bicarbonate therapy clinically to cancer patients with good therapeutic effects. Since 2003, Simonsini in Italy has started to research and clinically apply the bicarbonate therapy to medium and advanced cancer patients. Drug application approaches include oral application, venous injection and intervention. Since 2004, Sirkus has widely applied the bicarbonate therapy to cancers and found that the oral application is better. Integrating patients’ conditions, approaches such as oral application, venous and local injection, intervention, and celiac infusion, have been applied to systemize and standardize the bicarbonate therapy.
    
    
  • Psychotherapy

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    Psychotherapy
    Overview
    The occurrence and development of cancer are associated with social-psychological factors. Different mental state may lead to different results including what causes cancer, treating cancer and preventing cancer. Studies indicate that the nervous system can govern the immune organs through neurotransmitters like norepinephrine and 5-hydroxytryptamine. Positive psychological states can help strengthen this dominance so that anti-bodies will increase. People in poor mental state can reduce the T lymphocyte in the blood and inhibit the function of B lymphocyte and macrophage thus resulting in weakening of the immunity. Paying attention to mental health not only prevents cancer effectively, but also is good for overcoming cancer.

    Pavlov said, “persistent depression and anxiety potentially lead to physical problem. If one’s mental problem cannot be solved, cancer will probably occur and develop”. Emotional changes, such as depression, social isolation, jealousy, anxiety, worry, impatience, irritability, internalizing anger, unresolved grief, negativity and chronic stress can cause and develop cancer. 

    Common Psychological Problems in Cancer Patients 
    The types of psychological reaction in cancer patients are related to personality, psychological traits, disease severity and knowledge about cancer. The psychological reactions in cancer patients can be divided into six stages of adjustment: shock, confusion, fear, disbelief and denial, depression and finally acceptance.

    1.Experience Period: When patients learn about their laboratory report and know he is diagnosed with cancer, he is shocked and felt his whole world is shattered. He is in disbelief and felt doomed. He becomes numb and possibly faint, which is referred to as “diagnostic shock”. This shock lasts for a short time, probably a few hours or a few days. 

    2.Confusion Period: In this period, patients will be in disbelief and may deny the diagnosis. They may even seek second opinions in other hospitals or pretend as the family member of patient to consult with other doctors. There is no trust relationship between patient and doctor at this time. On one hand, patients hope to get a definitive diagnosis. On the other hand, they hoped the diagnosis is inaccurate or incorrect. This negative attitude can be evaluated as negative psychological state. Refusal to accept the truth is a psychological reaction for trauma or stringent state. It is a defense mechanism to lower the degree of fear, relieve emotional pain and allow patient time to adapt.

    3.Fear Period: Patients is frightened as they face the reality of the diagnosis. This feeling stems from fear of disease, pain, death, body defect and leaving family and friends. Patients feels scared, becomes emotional, has provocative and impulsive action, and a series of physiological changes, such as tremors, palpitation, elevation of blood pressure, paleness, sweating and etc… 

    4.Fantasy Period: At this stage, patients have endured painful experience since they had the disease. They can face this reality of discomfort but their illusion and denial remains, for example, they hope for a miracle and hope for a new drug that can eradicate their disease. This illusion may not have negative effect on patients. On the contrary, it can help the patients to fight the disease, boost confidence and coping capacity and relieve their fear and anxieties. 

    5.Depression Period: When all kinds of treatments cannot achieve good results; patients’ condition worsen and serious complications start to appear, patient will be in despair and lose confidence in the treatment. They would not listen to support from medical staff, their families and friends, and they will even have suicidal thoughts. Patients present with irritability, tension, non-compliance and uncooperative to prescription instructions.

    6.Acceptance: In this phase, they have accepted the reality and admitted themselves as patients. They are in a stable mood and comply to treatments. They no longer fear death. When patients’ diseases are in the advanced stage, they are passive towards treatment of the disease. They no longer consider their responsibility for family and society; instead, they focus on the symptoms with despair and helplessness.

    Psychotherapy for Cancer Patient 
    Education on Mental Health
    We provide information about the laboratory test, diagnosis, therapy and its side effects,  prognosis and the cost for patients. Moreover, we help patients understand the negative emotional reaction caused by disease and introduce different ways to cope, provide information about social support on the impact of cancer. We also help to clarify any patients’ misunderstanding and give them hope and support so as to relieve their difficulty adjusting to living with cancer and its treatment.

    Cognitive Remediation
    Cognition refers to people’s understanding and view, such as awareness of environment, opinion on some events, themselves and others, etc. Individual cognition is affected by emotion, will, motivation and behavior while it also affects individual emotion and behavior. In living daily life, people feel, understand, evaluate and predict the surroundings according to their individual cognition which guide their responses cognitive style and they make relatively fixed responses. That is to say, if there is problem and distortion in the individual’s cognition, the person will experience adjustment difficulty and negative thoughts which will exacerbate the psychosomatic disorder. something wrong and distorted in the cognitive style, people may have maladaptation and a bad mood, and make the psychosomatic disorder worsen. Therefore, cognitive therapy should focus on the following aspects: help patients change the unhealthy unsound cognition; adjust their distorted way of thinking, imagination and attitude; extricate them from negative attitudes; allow them to accept new and correct ideas so as to eliminate maladjustment and negative emotional reaction. Applying the cognitive therapy to patients when they are unstable because of accidents will be much more effective. Pressure will transform into strength to fighting the disease when people face cancer straight on.  

    Diseases easily strike people’s mind. As the cancer and symptoms resulting from treatment have serious impact on cancer patients’ body image, social function, mental function and quality of life, some patients lose confidence in life. Their pressure mainly stem from the worry about loss of health, loss of confidence in recovery. The negative psycho-reactions are mainly related to patients’ partial understanding about cancer. They believe cancer is equal to death, a cognitive distortion. Therefore, cognitive remediation is of great necessity. We should inform patients:
    ① Cancer is not equal to death.
    ② Cancer is a difficult to cure disease but it is not an incurable disease.
    ③ There is a process in cancer development and cancer treatment aims to inhibit or slow cancer growth.
    ④ As science is developing, there will be increasingly more available treatment.
    ⑤ Miracle happens when you believe. 

    Therapeutic Psychological Intervention
    Conduct psychopharmacologic therapy. Use the anti-anxiety drugs, anti-depressant, anti-psychotic drugs and anesthetic to relieve adjustment disorder stimulated by cancer diagnosis and treatment, major anxiety disorder, major depressive disorder, delirium, schizophrenia, pain, nausea, vomit and insomnia and etc...

    Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention. We help patients to establish positive cognitive approach and teach them some behavior training program, aiming to help them to change maladjusted cognition and maladjusted behaviors during cancer diagnosis, treatment and recovery.

    Supportive-Expressive  Intervention. We provide places like the health club of cancer patient for patient to share and discuss their problems of their disease that they care and express their feeling, such as fear, sadness, anger and so on.


    
    
  • Medical Qigong

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    Medical Qigong
    Medical Qigong is non-medicated health-building therapy through the physiological and psychological processes of exercises such as regulating body, breathing and mental activities, relaxing limbs, adjusting respiration, and stabilizing spirit consciousness, so as to regulate the balance of Yin and Yang in viscera. The effect of Qigong breathing exercise therapy is to enhance and replenish the original Qi of the human body, improve the quality of the body, self regulate and self control the life process by the guiding effect of consciousness, so as to coordinate the body to adapt to the environment, keep the stability of inner and outer environment, exert the inherent potential of the human body, and realize the effects of prevention and cure of diseases, while nourishing the body and prolonging life.

    Qigong breathing exercise therapy has a therapeutic effect of strengthening vital Qi to eliminate pathogenic factors. First, Qigong breathing exercise therapy focuses on "regulation of mental activities" to reach the superior skill of “conversion of Qi into vitality” and “conversion of vitality into the original Qi” by regulating mental activities to achieve calmness, because the “Heart”(mental activities) in the “Office of Monarch” exerts the main domination effect on five organs so that the five organs are coordinated, and the regulation of mental activities removes the adverse effects of emotional factors so as to reach a therapeutic effect of “relieving Qi stagnancy in the liver”. Second, the long-term regulation of mental activities can lead Qi consciously, to reach the “Qi running after consciousness”, then the “Qi leading the blood flow” become available. Moreover, the smoothness of Qi and blood can mobilize the vital Qi of the human body, completely remove pathogenetic toxic Qi, and drive the meridian Qi in order to remove pathogenetic factors such as phlegm, dampness, blood stasis, stagnation; and mobilize the essential substances to nourish and moisten the damaged visceral tissues.

    Qigong exercise emphasizes the “absorption of body fluid and conservation of essence Qi” to ensure the storage of essence Qi in the human body. Qigong exercise can play the role of heart governing mental activities and make the mental power brighter, in order to reach the best regulation and control of life movement and process, realize the “increasing vigorousness of vital Qi and gradual breakdown of pathogenic factors”, and then achieve the purpose of the therapy on the tumors.
    
    
  • Nano Therapy

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    Nano Therapy
    Introduction
    Nano Therapy is a new therapeutic apparatus in cancer treatment. It is developed according to substance metabolism and energy metabolism in life, keeping the physiological, biochemical function running normally and the theory of biological cells that match and absorb photons and then becomes activated. Nano therapeutic apparatus provides an effective, non-toxic and convenient method in treating and preventing cancer, and post-operative rehabilitation through synergistic effects of multi-peaks microwave it with strong energy.

    Scope of Treatment
    Through the evaluation of fundamental experiments and scientific findings, and clinical practices, Nano Therapy is indicated in the following situation including post-operative rehabilitation of cancer patients; integrative treatment of metastatic and advanced cancer; alleviating and eliminating the side effects of chemoradiotherapy after surgery; suppressive treatment of early-stage cancer and cancer prevention. This therapeutic apparatus can significantly shrink and cure various benign tumors. Clinical cure rate can improve when this therapy is combined with other clinical therapies.

    Mechanism of Treatment
    The Nano wave matching human body energy field and emitted by the emissive source of Nano therapy is dozen times higher than that of the human energy. This energy serves the following purpose when lesion, body surface and acupoints are exposed to it.

    1.Increase the secretion of endogenous opioid, such as beta-endorphins, enkephalins and dynorphin, to reduce the patient’s excitability and achieve obvious analgesic effects.

    2.Improve the immunologic function; increase the positive value of tumor suppressor gene P53 so as to increase the number of S-100 protein-positive dendritic anti-cancer cells; cause the apoptosis of cancer cell, suppress the proliferation of cancer cell, strengthen cell’s ability to repair, absorption of exudation, and restore the function of the degenerative and injured cell to prevent canceration of normal cells.

    3.Strengthen the whole-body micro-circulation; speed up the blood flow; improve hemorheology, increase the oxygen and nutrition supply of surrounding tissue and boost metabolism.

    4.Enhance the antioxidant ability of cancer patient, eliminate the free radicals substance in the body and improve cachexia of cancer patient to restore their physical strengths.

    5.Significantly relieve the postoperative chemoradiotherapy symptoms, such as local swelling, loss of appetite, leukopenia and diarrhea because of bidirectional regulation endocrine function.

    6.The thermal effect in the body quickly caused by the energy makes the temperature of the ascites and the vivo tumor rise to 41℃(±1.0)so that the growth of tumor can be suppressed and the ascites can be quickly absorbed.

    Therapeutic Method
    1.Undertake the irradiation while naked: Nano therapy must achieve its treatment goal through nerve receptor of body surface, and the absorption and conduction of meridians and collaterals and acupoints. As the Nano wave can be blocked by a piece of gauze, occlusions may affect therapeutic effect.

    2.Synergy Treatment: The therapeutic effect can be improved when the number of emissive source, the times of irradiation and the irradiation time and site increases. Generally speaking, this treatment is applied 1 to 3 times per day and 45 minutes per site. Synergy treatment can be applied according to the doctor’s instruction.

    3.Irradiation Part: The irradiation parts mostly focus on the affected part but other parts can be added according to the condition and doctor’s instruction. For example, for the lung cancer patients, the irradiation part includes chest, back and waist; for liver cancer patients, the irradiation part mainly include abdomen and waist and for back and knee-joint are also available. 

    4. Irradiation Intensity: Irradiation intensity can be adjusted according to the patient’s condition and acceptance. As for the critical patients and those who have applied the Nano therapy, they are perfectly treated in strong intensity. As for the patients with micro-circulatory disturbance, they should be treated in weak intensity first and then transfer to strong intensity in case that the Nano wave is activated too fast and causes possible blisters. The irradiation can continue even if there are blisters. But should pay attention to inflammation. However, the blister can be cured with the improvement of micro-circulation. 
    
    
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