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This new clinical resource clearly explains how to approach integrated care in a way that combines Chinese herbal medicine with Western medicine to enhance and improve medical care for patients with cancer - without undermining or negatively impacting patients' medical treatment. Each chapter covers a different type of cancer, first introducing the conventional medical understanding of that cancer including its etiology, diagnosis, and treatment according to staging and type. The chapter then covers that cancer from the perspective of Oriental medicine. Case studies illustrate the integration of treatment for each cancer type, raising important issues and considerations associated with specific cancers and treatments.Formulas are presented within the context of conventional treatment, intended to enhance the effectiveness of treatment and/or treat side effects without undermining the treatment's function.Each formula is followed by a discussion of how and why the herbs are used, including classical Chinese theory and relevant pharmaceutical studies.Staging and the age and performance status of various patients is used as a means by which to explain how formulas are changed.Case stu

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Author

Tai Lahans LAC MTCM MEd (Author)

Publisher

Churchill Livingstone

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780443100635

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Medical, Alternative Medicine & Natural Healing, Medicine