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☯ What is Cancer Dormancy Therapy?
Cancer Dormancy Therapy is a method that prolongs the cancer dormancy, so suppressed the recurrent metastasis. In other words, it is Korean medical cancer treatment to make chronic diseases like high blood pressure and diabetes cannot worsen and maintain dormancy.
☯ Cancer treatment and recurrent metastasis
Generally, it’s the norm that getting surgery and anti-cancer or radiation therapy when patient detects cancer, usually below operable tertiary solid cancer. After that, if cancer does not appear through CT or PET-CT etc, patient gets regular tracking observation. In this case, cancer cell is so small that it become invisible through imaging test and over time, it grows, spreads and recurs. Therefore, it is quiet important not to grow remaining cancer cell after treatment.
☯ Goal of Cancer Dormancy Therapy
Cancer Dormancy Therapy puts goal in suppression the cancer cell to grow and metastasize as shown above. If cancer continues to reproduce and to be a certain size, patient dies. By paraphrasing, if cancer can be suppressed to grow, patient will not die. This is contrary to cancer removal or cancer reduction. That is, making cancer sleep is the basic goal of Cancer Dormancy Therapy.
☯ Methods of Cancer Dormancy Therapy
Cancer Dormancy Therapy practiced at East West Cancer Center of Dunsan Korean Medicine Hospital can be roughly categorized into three types.
1. Suppression cancer angiogenesis
Basically, for cancer to grow, it is essential to be given nutrition just like other parts of the body. Cancer make blood vessel by itself to receive nourishment from the body. Therefore, if new cancer angiogenesis can be suppressed, cancer is hard to grow anymore. HangAm Plus is a Korean herbal medicine developed by East West Cancer Center of Dunsan Korean Medicine Hospital, and it is already shown that it is effective for suppression of cancer angiogenesis.
2. Improvement immunity
Immunity has a significant effect on the cancer growth. If the immunity is strong, cancer cannot grow. Patients, who have low level of immunity due to anti-cancer or radiation therapy, often suffer from cancer recurrent metastasis.
At East West Cancer Center of Dunsan Korean Medicine Hospital, we apply several therapies such as acupuncture, herbal acupuncture, moxibustion, herbal medicine to increase patients’ immune function.
3. Directive cancer treatment
In cancer treatment, it is important not only to improve the body’s condition but also to suppress the propagation of cancer cells. At Ease West Cancer Center, the goal is a directive cancer treatment using multipath targeted therapy for cancer medicines. The representative medicines are “CheonRyongChungChoJung” (for lung cancer), “BackJilChungGanJung” (for liver cancer), “NoBongGiBiJung” (for cancer of the stomach). There are also anti cancer herbal acupunctures No.1, 2, 3.
☯ Effects of Cancer Dormancy Therapy
Treatment comparisons of VEGF, BFGF of cancer patients at East West Cancer Center have found that Cancer Dormancy Therapy is effective for decrease in figure. (Journal of Korean Oriental Internal Medicine in 2005)
Effectiveness of Cancer Dormancy Therapy is as follows;
° Prevention of cancer recurrent metastasis
° Suppression the cancer having a tolerance to anti-cancer drugs to grow
° Increase in anticancer efficacy with anti-cancer and radiation therapy
° Suppression the cancer to develop through Korean anti-cancer treatment (If patient cannot receive the anti-cancer
and radiation therapy because of low level of physical strength.)
° Extend cancer patients’ living period