Direction and clinical practice of traditional Chinese medicine in the prevention and treatment of cancer
- VernacularTitle:中医药防治恶性肿瘤的科学实践及发展方向
- Author:
Xinyi MA
1
;
Bowen XU
1
;
Jie LI
1
;
Ying ZHANG
1
;
Luchang CAO
1
;
Yuansha GE
1
;
Guanghui ZHU
1
;
Xiaoyu ZHU
1
;
Jingyuan WU
1
;
Xinmiao WANG
1
Author Information
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords: Neoplasms; Traditional Chinese medicine; Original theories; Advantages; Evidence-based evaluations; Mechanism analysis
- From: Chinese Journal of Oncology 2025;47(2):121-128
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
- Abstract: Cancer is a major chronic disease that threatens human health, while traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is a unique method for cancer prevention and treatment in China. After about 70 years of innovation and development, TCM has made constant progress in areas such as the clinical diagnosis, treatment, evidence-based researches, and mechanism exploration of cancer. It has special advantages in aspects such as reducing toxicity, enhancing treatment efficacy, managing symptoms, accelerating recovery, preventing recurrence and metastasis, and prolonging advanced-stage survival. However, there are still bottlenecks for TCM in cancer care. This paper cuts in the key links between TCM and western medicine in their combined application in cancer prevention and treatment, and take the original TCM theories on cancer as the lead, high-quality evidence-based researches as the drive, and analysis on the dynamic mechanism as the core, to show the advantages and effects of TCM in cancer treatment in an all-round way. It also aims to provide novel strategies for sustainable and innovative development and for formulation of comprehensive schemes that integrate TCM and western medicine for cancer prevention and treatment.
