What Is the Treatment for Blood Cancer?

Leukemia is a common malignant tumor. China has listed it as one of the top ten malignant tumors for prevention and treatment. Leukemia accounts for about 5% of the total incidence of malignant tumors, with children and young people predominantly. Leukemia accounts for the sixth (male) and eighth (female) death rates of malignant tumors in all age groups in China. The following population is the first.

Blood cancer

Introduction to Blood Cancer

Blood cancer, also known as Leukemia, is commonly known as "leukemia."

Observing the age-specific incidence curve of leukemia, it was found that there were two small peaks between the age of 5 and 15-20, and the incidence increased gradually with age after 40 years of age, and the peak age was after 60 years of age. But the age of onset of leukemia varies. According to the survey, the incidence of leukemia in large cities is higher than that in rural areas. The incidence of oilfields and contaminated areas has increased significantly, with men slightly higher than women. For all types of leukemia, acute is more chronic than chronic. According to the survey data from 1986 to 1988 in China, the incidence of all types of leukemia was highest in acute non-gonorrhea, followed by acute gonorrhea, slow granules, slow gonorrhea and special types.

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Blood cancer diagnosis

Blood test: the number of white blood cells increases, which may increase to hundreds of thousands (but a small number of patients actually reduce the number of white blood cells), and a large number of immature white blood cells appear. Others such as decreased hemoglobin, decreased red blood cells, decreased platelets, etc. .

Peripheral blood smear: Many myeloid cells appear, and these myeloid cells are immature white blood cells.

Bone marrow biopsy: The bone marrow puncture site is usually the intestinal bone spine at the sternum or pelvic cavity. The physician will penetrate the skin with a puncture needle, and then drill through the surface of the bone with a special needle to reach the bone marrow cavity and extract a small amount of bone marrow blood. The procedure of bone marrow sectioning is the same as that of bone marrow aspiration, except that the needle used is a special sectioning needle, and these two examinations can be completed at the same time.

Blood cancer symptoms of blood cancer

Leukemia patients often have fever as the main symptom. Most patients have high numbers of white blood cells. Although there are many white blood cells, they are immature and immature cells, as if some "baby soldiers" did not resist at all. The enemy's ability, so leukemia people are easily infected, such as oral cavity, throat, ear, nose, anus, skin and other places can be affected by some inflammatory changes, bacteria with strong toxicity, entering the blood can also become "septicemia" life-threatening. Due to the large number of immature white blood cells produced in the bone marrow of leukemia patients, the megakaryocytes that produce platelets are significantly reduced. Therefore, leukemia patients can have skin and mucous membranes, bleeding from multiple tissues and organs, and severe intracranial bleeding can occur. Leukemia cells invading other tissues can be manifested as bone pain, periosteal tumors ( ), skin nodules, swollen gums, hepatosplenic lymph nodes, etc., and can also manifest as meningeal leukemia, testicular leukemia, etc. Accompanied by anemia and anemia due to bleeding.

Clinical manifestations of acute leukemia

(1) Clinical signs of leukemia infiltration affecting normal hematopoietic cells:

1. Fever: is a common symptom of this disease. Low fever is mostly fever for this disease, and high fever is often caused by infection. Infections usually occur in the mouth, respiratory tract, urinary tract, perianal area, and skin.

2. Bleeding: It can occur on the skin and mucous membranes of any part of the body, severe visceral bleeding can occur, and even fatal intracranial bleeding can occur.

3 Anemia: The vast majority of patients have varying degrees of anemia. Appears pale, dizziness, weakness, shortness of breath and palpitations.

(B) signs of leukemia cells infiltrating organs other than the bone marrow:

1. Liver, spleen, and lymphadenopathy: Hepatosplenomegaly is a common sign of this disease, accounting for about 50%; lymphadenopathy can be as high as 90%, which is most common in acute lymph nodes, followed by urgent orders, and acute particles again.

2. Bone and joint pain: Sternal tenderness is a diagnostic sign of the disease. Most of the pain occurred in the bones and joints of the extremities, and it was migratory, and there were no local redness, swelling and heat. In addition, a small number of young patients with acute granules may have green tumors in their flat bones, which are characterized by a hard mass connected to the periosteum. The mass is blue and the skin may be green.

3 Skin and facial features: maculopapular papules, nodules, lumps, dermatitis, etc. can be seen on the skin; gingival swelling and bleeding, oral ulcers, and sore throat are significant. The orbit is a frequent location of green tumors, with exophthalmia as the main manifestation. In severe cases, ocular muscle paralysis and blindness may occur.

4. Others: Increased intracranial pressure and cranial nerve damage may occur in the central nervous system due to infiltration and bleeding, and peripheral nerves may also be affected. The pericardium, myocardium, and endocardium can be infiltrated, but those with clinical manifestations are rare, and can be manifested as pericardial effusion, arrhythmia, and heart failure. The bronchi and lungs can also be infiltrated by leukemia cells.

Blood cancer treatment

(1) Leukemia chemotherapy

With the progress of leukemia treatment research, the curative effect continues to improve. Bring hope to the eradication of leukemia. In order to achieve this goal, we must comprehensively modernize the treatment methods according to the different characteristics of each patient, and fully realize that the treatment of leukemia is a whole. In particular, we must analyze and understand each patient's own characteristics, such as age, gender, leukemia type, blood Characteristics, cytogenetics and molecular biology characteristics, cell dynamics of leukemia cells, etc. On this basis, design the best treatment plan for the patient, and rationally use modern treatment methods, such as chemotherapy, hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, biological and gene therapy, integrated Chinese and Western medicine, and other methods to cooperate and coordinate with each other, to avoid the largest possible This kind of toxic side effect. Killing leukemia cells enables patients to achieve long-term survival and even cure.

(2) Chinese medicine treatment of leukemia

From a large number of clinical practices, early participation of traditional Chinese medicine and traditional Chinese medicine ginsenoside rh2 in the treatment of leukemia can obviously improve the patient's condition. TCM's conditioning of the human body is comprehensive. TCM's conditioning of qi, blood, yin and yang, and viscera can correspond to the regulation of western medicine's immune function and immune status, which means that traditional Chinese medicine has a clear advantage in improving the quality of life of patients. The early participation of Chinese medicine is very beneficial to the recovery of the disease. ^[1]

Blood cancer treatment options

Xihuang Pill + Compound Canthari Capsule

Compound Canthari Capsule + Xiaocanping Tablets

Zhenxiang Capsule + Compound Canthalen Capsule

Compound Canthari Capsules + Brucea Oral Liquid

Shendan Sanjie Capsule + Xihuang Pill

Blood Cancer Recipes

Prescription: 15 toads weighing 125g (to cleanse the internal organs), and rice wine 1500ml. Put the yellow wine toads together in a porcelain pot and close it. Then put the porcelain pot into the pot and cook with water for 2 hours. Filter out the medicinal solution and set aside. Treatment: Adults, 15-30ml / times 3 times a day, after meals; children's dosage should be reduced. Take the medicine until the symptoms are completely relieved. Thereafter, maintenance treatment was given for half a month and intermittent for half a month. Other supportive therapies can be applied during this period.

Efficacy: A total of 32 patients with various types of leukemia were treated with this formula (both taking drugs for more than 20 days), with a total remission rate of 75% and a complete remission rate of 25%. Among them, acute shower was the most effective, with a complete remission rate of 33.3% and a total remission rate of 88.6%.

Fang Yuan: Qian Jiaming and others: Chinese medicine toad wine for treatment of leukemia: observation of 32 cases. Liaoning Traditional Chinese Medicine (4): 18, 1984.

Liushen Pill (commercially available): 90-150 capsules (270-450 mg) daily, divided into 3 to 4 doses.

Efficacy: Treatment of 10 cases of leukemia, including 7 cases of CML and 3 cases of acute leukemia. Of the 7 patients with CML, 1 had complete remission, 1 had partial remission, and 5 had progress. Another 3 cases of acute leukemia, 1 case completely resolved AML.

Recipe: 3-6 money for washing dishes and roots. Shuijianbi 3 times a day.

Efficacy: Treatment of 1 case of slow granules, remission in 25 days.

Fang Yuan: Yunnan Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine.