Tài liệu Alternative Treatment for Cancer By Ping-Chung Leung (Editor), Harry H.S. Fong (Editor)

Alternative Treatment for Cancer
By: Ping-Chung Leung (Editor), Harry H.S. Fong (Editor)

Audience: Tertiary; University or College
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 384
Published: 1st January 2008
Volume Number: 3

Cancer treatment has enjoyed half a century of healthy development, relying mainly on surgery, cytotoxic therapy and radiation. Achievements and successes are well reflected in the longer survival period and better quality of life. Nonetheless, cancer still spreads locally, recurs, metastasizes and remains one of the top killers. Instead of concentrating on cancer removal, it has become obvious that supportive measures are also important. These include the means to improve quality of life during treatment and to contain tumor growth. To this end, herbal medicine appears to offer holistic support via as yet unknown pathways.This volume reveals the practice of cancer treatment using herbs from all over the world, including China, India and Japan. It provides comprehensive information about the herbs commonly used, the logic of using the herbs, some of the mechanisms of action and other means of palliative treatment. While cancer victims have a thirst for choosing their own supplementary treatment, health providers have a duty to explain to them the justifications and the options.




Contents
Contributors xi
Preface to Series xvii
Preface to Volume 3 xix
Chapter 1 The Scientific Basis of Chinese Medicine and 1
Cancer Care: A Western Medicine Perspective
Stephen M. Sagar & Raimond Wong
Chapter 2 Recent Status and Outlook of Traditional Chinese 55
Medicine in Cancer Treatment
Dai-Han Zhou
Chapter 3 Chinese Medicine and Cancer Treatment in 65
Hong Kong: A General Review
Ping-Chung Leung, Vincent Ooi,
Eliza L.-Y. Wong, Wai-Chun Au,
Chun-Kwok Wong, Wai-Kei Lam,
Sing-Fai Leung & Tony S.-K. Mok
Chapter 4 Advancements of Ayurveda in Cancer 77
Management with Special Focus on
Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Premalatha Balachandran
Chapter 5 Complementary Approaches to Cancer in Italy 107
Ralph W. Moss
Chapter 6 Kampo Treatment for Cancer 117
Kenji Watanabe
Chapter 7 Risk Management of Complementary Alternative 129
Medicines in Cancer
Ursula Werneke
Chapter 8 Complementary Therapies for Cancer Patients 163
Barrie R. Cassileth, Jyothirmai Gubili &
K. Simon Yeung
Chapter 9 Positive Findings about Herbs and Natural 179
Products Action on Cancer
Muriel J. Montbriand
Chapter 10 Mechanistic Studies on Combination of 233
Phytochemicals and Synthetic Drugs as
Anti-Cancer Agents
Shanmugam HemaIswarya & Mukesh Doble
Chapter 11 Ethnopharmacology Approaches for Botanical 255
Immunomodulators and Chemoprotectants in
Cancer Therapy
Patwardhan Bhushan & Gautam Manish
Chapter 12 Bioactive Polysaccharides from TCM Herbs 285
as Anti-Cancer Adjuvants
Raymond Chang
Chapter 13 Clinical Evaluation of Herbal Formula Decoction 301
in Treating Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer by
Various Rating Scales
Jie You & Zhi-Ming Shi
Chapter 14 New Approach for Evaluating the Anti-Breast 321
Cancer Activity of Traditional Chinese Medicine
John M. Pezzuto, Richard C. Moon,
Charles K.-H. Chang & Ching-Jer Chang
Chapter 15 Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Studies 347
of Acupuncture
Gary Deng & Barrie Cassileth
Index 359