Gastric Cancer

Gastric cancer is a common digestive tract cancer, occur in the middle-aged men. The distribution is a clear regional differences, Latin America, Asia and Central Europe, such as Japan, Chile, Iceland and other countries have a higher prevalence, the United States, Britain and other countries the incidence is lower. Gastric cancer in China has higher morbidity and mortality. A large number of census data indicate that the incidence of gastric cancer causes and the environment, race, living habits, diet, genetics, and nitrosamines, trace elements, but not with partial gastric lesions, such as gastric polyps, intestinal metaplasia, atrophic gastritis, also has a relationship , but the exact cause is not clear.

Although there is no stomach in the name of medicine, but according to the clinical manifestation of gastric cancer can be attributed to epigastric pain, nausea, Ye Ge, V Leung, Zhengjia the areas of accumulation. The earliest records, dating back to "yellow? Di Nei Jing." Such as "Plain Questions" states: "Weiwanxiashu Beware the pain, the two threatened branches, is very vomiting, diaphragm pharynx unreasonable." "Hard by the" Cloud: "Heart of the plot euphemized volt beams from navel, on as big as arm , Upper Zhixin, the long-unhealed, it is sick bother. "" Golden Chamber "said:" North Korea food sunset spit the morning, spit toward food, lodging Valley is not based, fine-sounding name nausea. "These are similar to the description of the symptoms of gastric cancer . Ages physicians have more to play. In the etiology and pathogenesis, the Sui Dynasty, "Zhu-designate on the source of the disease," says: "Rong Wei Ju is true, its lack of blood gas, water to drink plot, in the Weiwanxiashu the dirty cold, dirty, cold is not grinding the spleen, the spleen does not wear the Shikutani not , and its gas-formed stomach against the anti-people. "Ming Dynasty," Jing Yue Quan Shu "points out:" (nausea) or cool drink excessive and injured in alcohol wet, or lost its true longitudinal eat cold-yang, or because of the impassioned Yu exhaust in the air, in short, nothing but the very internal injuries, caused by damage stomach qi and yin. "In therapy," Jing Yue Quan Shu, "said:" The law governing nausea, ... ... will certainly wish to support healthy trends, mainly spleen Yangwei. "Doctors ages prognosis of gastric cancer has also been recognized. "Shishi Balam" reads: "nausea of the card, although not able rapid pace die, ran his rule should not also die and then have been." The above discussion shows that the ancient Chinese medicine theory and practice of gastric cancer has accumulated some experience.

Modern Chinese literature related to gastric cancer, 60 years before the adoption of non-governmental prescription only sporadic reports targeted therapies, and case by case mainly found in the first paper reported that in 1960, is the use of non prescription treatment of gastric cancer cases introduced. 70 years has established a national prevention and treatment of gastric cancer research collaboration group, equipped with Chinese medicine, integrated Chinese and Western medicine and other professional groups, from experimental to clinical carried out a systematic and extensive research. 80 years later, Chinese medicine treatment of gastric cancer entered in order to explore the nature and treatment of syndromes for the purpose of the law of the new era, in large samples (number of cases in 100 cases and above) on the basis of observations carried out, including the nature of gastric cancer syndromes, dialectical Shi Governing law governing the theory of effective herbs such as research, tongue moss and TCM pulse diagnosis (such as the ear, as the patient, etc.) research, and both clinical verification, another laboratory observation, and has achieved a wide range of results. In recent years, as people increasing demands for quality of life, traditional Chinese medicine has pushed the focus of gastric cancer in the control of precancerous lesions (chronic gastritis, atrophic gastritis associated with moderate or severe intestinal metaplasia and dysplasia of the above persons) for the prevention of the occurrence of gastric cancer has opened up new trails.

Chinese medicine in comprehensive therapy of gastric cancer in a unique effect to be full play, there are a lot of work to be done, including further use of new technologies and new methods to explore the essence of TCM syndrome of gastric cancer, screening and reliable drug efficacy, group-side optimization and dosage forms reforms, so as to achieve new breakthroughs.