爱华网《中国式抗癌：中医治疗肿瘤成功案例》英文版出版
《中国式抗癌：中医治疗肿瘤成功案例》英文版经过多年的努力，特别是在海外同学的支持下，终于在近日由新世界出版社正式出版。这是一本厚厚的书，装帧精美，大开本，足有500页，定价为人民币128元，约合美元20元。
《中国式抗癌：中医治疗肿瘤成功案例》英文版封底上有醒目的提示：
The latest nontoxic anticancerways:
TCM + anticancer diet + HIFU + closedHIF-1 gene + HS magnetic therapy
翻译成中文为：
最新无毒抗癌治疗模式：
中药+食疗+超声热疗+无氧代谢基因封闭+高旋磁疗
《中国式抗癌：中医治疗肿瘤成功案例》英文版序
《中医成功治疗肿瘤一百例》的出版至今已整整20年，其间出过中文简体字版四版和香港繁体字版三版。英文版在1997年出了第一版，现在新世界出版社在16年后准备出英文第二版，自然会依据最新的中文版本更新内容。这本书之所以能一版再版，为越来越多的海内外读者青睐，主要是因为中医确切的抗癌疗效已被更多的病人认可和接受。与20年前相比，无论是癌症的发病率和死亡率今日都有过之而无及，这不能不让人们对西方医学治疗癌症的传统方法产生质疑。目前在医院占主导地位的抗癌治疗依然是手术、化疗、放疗三大疗法，这种对癌症实施的打击疗法，况且可称其为有毒抗癌。
我们常常看到，病人一旦得知自己被诊断为癌症就如同接到死亡判决书一般，特别是老人和身体虚弱的病人，他们会谈癌色变，因为这种恐惧不仅是对癌本身的恐惧，也是对癌症治疗的恐惧。病人知道，癌症一旦确立，西医治疗的三步曲即手术、放疗、化疗便程序化地开始了。这些治疗不仅昂贵，而且毒副作用极大。接受这样的治疗，在某种意义上来说，实际上就是让自己的身体和长在体内的癌一起接受残酷的打击，一起经受毒性的考验。然而治疗效果如何呢？如实地说效果一般，因为大多数癌症病人最终难逃“人财两空”的悲惨结局。
我的书发行了二十年，其间常有病人循着书中的线索，费尽周折找到我。因为虽然是医生，但癌症也曾在我心中有过巨大创伤，所以无论病人处在癌症的早期还是晚期，我都会尽力帮助他们与癌魔进行长期的博弈。临床上看的病人多了，医学的经验自然愈积愈多，治疗效果也逐年提高。
我在书中列举了上百个用中医成功治疗肿瘤的案例，那么是否所有的癌症都可用中医治愈呢？如果不是，那么中医治疗癌症究竟能达到一个怎样的程度？中医的派别很多，水平各异，那么又该怎样选择一位中医帮助病人战胜癌症呢？那些患了癌症的病人，在中西医之间常常举棋不定，要么接受对身体伤害很大的放化疗，而治疗的结果其实十分不理想；要么接受中医，但不知中医对癌症的控制究竟有多大把握？这是我经常接到病人电话咨询最多的问题，他们希望从我这里能得到真实客观的答案。
作为一名中医肿瘤医生，而我的家中又有多位晚期癌症病人，因此二十年来我一直孜孜不倦地在探索中医治疗癌症切实有效的方法，如何不伤害身体，同时又能控制和消除癌的病灶？当单用中医抗癌遇到阻力时，如何结合西医无毒抗癌的其他治疗方法继续与癌进行持久的博弈？这是我时常思考的问题，我想每一个癌症患者的家人都希望找到无毒且真正有效的抗癌方法，从这个意义上来说，我和他们的立场一致。为此，我应该把自己体验到中医抗癌真正所能达到的效果如实告诉他们，同时也和他们一起分享我探索到无毒抗癌的最新成果，与他们一道与癌魔进行长期的抗争，并且最后战胜癌症。
在我治疗的癌症病例中，确有完全用中医药治愈的癌症病人，其中包括恶性淋巴瘤、肝肉瘤腹腔转移、结肠癌、肺鳞癌、肺腺癌脑转移、宫颈癌等，他们连续服中药的时间长达1-2年，肿瘤逐渐消掉后不会复发，这些病人至今都健康地活着。此类病人的特点是瘤体不大，基本都没有做过化疗。对于这类病人我所用的方法便是中医大剂量无毒抗癌法，我的药有两方面作用，一方面是在不伤害病人正气的情况下，用足量无毒或低毒的抗癌中药尽可能控制病人的癌病灶，另一方面则是调节病人的阴阳，使他们的脾胃和二便运行正常，同时维护病人的阳气，激发病人自体潜在的抗癌自愈力和免疫力。中医抗癌消癌的作用确实来得缓慢，但在整个治疗过程中，病人生活质量很高，过着与正常人一样的生活，而且癌症消除后一般不会复发。
记得20年前我用中医治好的第一个病人是位肺癌病人，当时她52岁。我将这个病例收集在这本书中，没想到当她70岁时又患了肠癌，虽然我在十八年中已经搬了很多次家，换过好几个医院，但她还是最终找到了我，结果我再次治好了她的肠癌。去年的一个星期天，她的三个孩子从另一城市专程登门告诉我，老人已一年没吃药了，所有的检查都正常，她养了只可爱的小狗为伴，正在快乐地安度晚年。
无毒的中医抗癌治疗，最适合治疗早中期高分化和中分化的癌症以及各种癌前病变。如果这些低度恶性的癌症瘤体不大，持之以恒服用较大剂量无毒抗癌中药，再辅以食疗是有可能使肿瘤逐渐缩小直至完全消失，并且不再复发。对于癌前病变西医往往无药可用，或者观察，或者手术。而我一般让病人服用3-6个月的无毒抗癌中药，就可完全阻断癌前病变。我治疗最多的的是宫颈和胃肠消化道的癌前病变，如宫颈鳞状上皮的重度不典型增生、结肠多发性息肉病、胃溃疡、萎缩性胃炎、胃粘膜慢性炎症伴肠细胞化生及重度不典型增生等。
在我用中药治疗的癌症病人中，感到鳞癌比腺癌相对好治，低分化腺癌恶性度较高且易转移，对于这类病人我一般不会阻止他们进行化疗，但如果是高分化或中分化的腺癌，我则会劝阻病人放弃放化疗，因为不敏感，对癌细胞的杀伤作用不大，而对自身的正常细胞却会伤害很大，如果他们强行做放化疗太吃亏，或者说划不来，同时也为远期治疗带来隐患，因为经过放化疗后复发的癌细胞用中药较难控制。高分化腺癌即使不手术，单用中药也是比较容易消掉的，做了手术再用化疗，往往适得其反，其实只要服一般的抗癌中药就能控制的很好。中分化腺癌则要用中医大剂量无毒抗癌法控制癌病灶，如果病灶较小是有可能消掉的，如果病灶较大可以手术，但术后不建议做化疗，而是以中药抗癌替代，但连续服药时间要在1-2年以上，以后则可间歇服中药。
然而目前的现状是西方医学对癌细胞恶性度完全不顾及，几乎对所有术后的癌症病人都不分青红皂白，程序化地进行4次、6次甚至8次的化疗，这样滥用化疗无疑是一种治疗过度，所以我要高举无毒抗癌治疗的旗帜与之对抗，或者说与传统的目前依然占据着医学主流地位的有毒抗癌治疗进行挑战。
那么对于瘤体较大的癌或已全身转移的晚期癌，我是如何为他们治疗的呢？这时单靠中医不行，必须中西结合，但我依旧坚持无毒抗癌的原则，即只结合西医中无毒且真正有效的抗癌疗法，例如免疫治疗、超声刀治疗和癌基因封闭疗法。
在腹腔中的肿瘤可长得很大，例如肝癌、肉瘤等，如果单纯靠中医“消掉”较难。此时，我常常配合超声刀的治疗，将肿瘤尽可能缩小，然后再进行长期的中药抗癌治疗。超声刀的设备在很多医院都有，但操“刀”者的水平却有很大差异。一般的超声刀治疗只做一次，电脑定位后，用高热能将对准的病灶全部烧毁，由于组织短时间的坏死，可在局部产生激烈的反应，如水肿、疼痛、高热，为此病人常常需要麻醉。而与我有了长期合作的超声刀专家，则将一次治疗化为七次甚至几十次来分段治疗，加热采取间歇式，以保证周围正常组织不受伤害。这种治疗的优点首先是非常安全，因为每次治疗只烧毁一小块病灶，所以局部反应很小，甚至自身感觉不到有何不适。治疗像啄木鸟筑巢一样，将肿瘤大部“消融”殆尽。此后，可再采用癌基因封闭疗法、免疫治疗和长期的中医治疗，争取“带瘤生存”，以致最后彻底治愈癌症。
那么什么是癌基因的封闭疗法呢？这要从美国约翰霍普金斯大学教授西门兹（Gregg Semenza）博士说起，1992年他因发现低氧诱导因子(HIF1) 而成为现代低氧研究的奠基人。HIF-1基因可以启动一群基因，行使着体内某些急救功能。当身体某个部位因损伤而缺血、缺氧时，HIF-1基因主要是启动了该组织的无氧糖酵解代谢途径。
关于癌症的成因，德国著名医学专家古博格教授曾提出“缺氧说”。他通过研究指出，当人体组织细胞的氧含量低于正常值65%时，缺氧组织细胞就会癌变。癌细胞也叫厌氧细胞或缺氧细胞。现在医学界普遍认为，HIF-1基因是癌症的一个“总开关”，它控制数百个癌症基因的活动。
国内的研究者发现，细胞恶性增殖的启动和阻断都是分别通过促进细胞增殖的转录因子在“断匙关闭效应”中降解的染色质肽来实现的。从这个角度看，不管患者病情恶化到什么程度，只要患者还没有出现生命体征全面衰退和面临致命的器官衰竭，医生便可通过HIF-1类转录因子降解的染色质肽来关闭和切断细胞的恶性化途径，从而稳定癌症患者的病情和挽救他们的生命。中国的研究者就像用把钥匙断到这个开关中一样，利用“断匙肽效应”，开发出了被称为基因沉默的染色质肽药物，以试图关闭这个癌症的“总开关”，从而天然有效地模仿人类基因链插入到细胞核的作用，既防止癌症细胞扩散，又阻止其它基因钥匙再开启癌细胞增长的大门。简而言之，癌基因的封闭疗法，就是通过人体自身具有的特异染色质肽，像钥匙断到这个开关中一样，封闭住癌细胞的无氧代谢启动因子，从而切断癌细胞的营养，“饿死”癌细胞。
现在看来“功夫不忘有心人”，我终于踏出了一条无毒抗癌的成功之路，我已经可以把这几种真正有效的无毒抗癌的治疗方法结合在一起，中药+食疗+热疗+癌基因封闭疗法+免疫治疗+心理治疗形成了无毒抗癌治疗的最初雏形，这显然是一种新型的抗癌模式，其安全性和有效性，远远优于传统的有毒抗癌治疗模式：手术+放疗+化疗，虽然后者目前属于主流医学的治疗模式，但可以预见，无毒抗癌治疗终将取代有毒抗癌治疗。
现在有很多海外病人不远万里，长途跋涉专程来找我看中医，来得最多的是美国人，其中不乏聪明的犹太人，他们对中医有着浓厚的兴趣，他们期盼早日能读到我的书。感谢世界出版社，在他们的努力下，《中医成功治疗肿瘤一百例》英文第二版即将出版，同时我的另一本英文版《无毒抗癌—我的医学思考》也已列入了出版计划，只是苦于得不到基金或赞助，相信本书的出版必将促进后者的出版，那么国际医学界就会早日理解和接受东方人的无毒抗癌理念，从而调整人类抗癌的总战略。
Preface
Twenty years have passed sinceTreatment of Cancer The ChineseWay was first published. During thisperiod, four simplified Chinese editions and three traditionalChinese (Hong Kong) editions have been published. The first Englishedition was published in 1997. Today, 16 years later, New WorldPress is going to publish the second English edition, and willtherefore update the content based on the latest Chinese edition.This book has been repeatedly published and is gaining the favor ofmore and more readers at home as well as abroad. The main reasonfor this is that the definite anticancer effect of traditionalChinese medicine has been recognized and accepted by more patients.Compared to the situation 20 years ago, today both cancer incidenceand mortality have increased even more. This has made peoplequestion the conventional methods of Western medicine that treatcancer. At present, there are three major therapies agains t cancerat hospitals: surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Thesetherapies against cancer may be called the poisonous way offighting cancer.
We often see that once patients,especially the elderly and the weak, have been diagnosed withcancer, they get shocked as if they had just received the deathsentence, because they not only fear cancer itself, but also fearthe cancer therapy. Patients know that once cancer is confirmed,the trilogy of Western medicine treatment, i.e. surgery,radiotherapy and chemotherapy, will begin in a routine way. Thesetherapies are not only expensive, but also have severe toxic sideeffects. Receiving such therapies is, in a sense, actually strikingbrutally both your own body and the tumor that grows in vivo, andtesting them with toxicity. But what about the therapeutic effect?Honestly, the effect is just moderate, because most of the cancerpatients eventually end up with “loss of both life and money” in amiserable way.
Over the past 20 years after my bookwas published, it was often the case that some patients visited mepainstakingly by following the clues in the book. Cancer once lefta huge trauma in my heart despite the fact that I am a doctor.Therefore, I tried my best to help these patients fight cancer on along-term basis, whether they were in the early stage or latestage. Clinically, I have treated more and more patients, andnaturally gained more and more medical experiences, which led to aconstant improvement of the therapeutic effect.
In my book, I list one hundred casesof tumors successfully cured by TCM. So, is it possible to cure alltypes of cancer using TCM? If not, to what extent exactly cancancer be cured by TCM? TCM doctors belong to many schools and havedifferent levels of skills. Then how can we select a TCM doctor whocan help patients triumph over cancer? Those cancer patients oftenhesitate between traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine.They have to either accept radiotherapy and chemotherapy which dogreat harm to their body with unsatisfactory therapeutic results,or accept TCM with no knowledge of the extent in which TCM cancontrol cancer. This is the question most frequently asked by mypatients in their consultation by phone, and they hope to get arealistic and objective answer from me.
As a TCM doctor that tackles tumors,with several late stage cancer patients at home, too, I have beentirelessly searching after effective TCM therapies which controland eliminate cancerous nidus without doing harm to the body formore than 20 years. When it is difficult to use TCM alone to fightcancer, how can we combine it with nontoxic anticancer therapies ofWestern medicine to continue our fight against cancer? These arethe questions that I often think about. I believe that all familymembers of cancer patients hope to find a nontoxic but highlyeffective way of fighting cancer. In this sense, we are in the sameboat. So I want to tell them the real effects that TCM can achievein fighting cancer from what I have experienced and to share thelatest nontoxic anticancer achievements I have made, so we canfight cancer on a long-term basis hand in hand, until we shalltriumph over it.
In my practice, there are indeedcancer patients who have been cured completely by TCM, suchpatients had developed malignant lymphoma, abdominal cavitymetastasis of hepatosarcoma, colon cancer, squamous cell lungcarcinoma, brain metastasis of adenocarcinoma of the lungs,cervical cancer, etc. They have continuously taken traditionalChinese medicines for one to two years. After their tumors aregradually gone, there has been no relapse. These patients are stillliving a healthy life today. One common feature of such patients isthat their tumors are not big, and have not received anychemotherapy. For such patients, I use high-dose, nontoxic TCManticancer therapy. My medicines have effects in two aspects. Onthe one hand, while making sure that patients’ vitalqi is not harmed, I use sufficientnontoxic or low-toxic traditional Chinese anticancer medicines tocontrol the cancer nidus as far as possible. On the other hand, Iregulate patients’ yin and yang so that their spleen,stomach, urination and defecation operate normally, and maintainpatients’yang qi so as to stimulate patients’ ownpotential spontaneous healing and immunity against cancer. Theeffect of TCM in cancer fighting is indeed slow, but during theentire treatment process, patients have very high quality of lifeand live a life like normal persons. In addition, cancer normallywill not relapse after being eliminated.
I remember that the first patientcured by me using TCM 20 years ago was a 52-year-old patient withlung cancer. I included this case in this book. Unexpectedly, shedeveloped intestinal cancer when she was 70. Though I had moved acouple of times and changed quite a few hospitals during those 18years, she managed to find me, and I cured her intestinal canceragain. One Sunday last year, her three children came all the wayfrom another city to visit me, and told me that their mother hadnot taken any medicine for one year, all examinations had shownthat her condition was normal and she had raised a lovely pup andwas spending her remaining years in comfort.
The nontoxic anticancer TCM therapyis most suitable for treating highly differentiated and moderatelydifferentiated cancer in the early and middle stages, as well asvarious precancerous lesions. If these slightly malignant tumorsare not big in size, it is possible to reduce their size until theycompletely disappear and to prevent them from relapsing bycontinuous intake of large doses of traditional Chinese anticancermedicines plus food therapy. Western medicine can often not doanything about precancerous lesions, and the only options areobservation or surgery. For me, I normally ask patients to taketraditional Chinese anticancer medicines for three to six months,which can completely stop precancerous lesions. We mostly treatcervical and gastrointestinal precancerous lesions, such as severeatypical hyperplasia of cervical squamous epithelium, colonicpolyposis, gastric ulcers, atrophic gastritis, chronic esogastritisaccompanied by intestinal cell metaplasia and severe atypicalhyperplasia, etc.
From my experience of treating cancerpatients using TCM, it is easier to treat squamous carcinoma thanto treat glandular cancer. The poorly differentiated glandularcancer has a high degree of malignancy and is susceptible tometastasis. I normally won’t prevent such patients from receivingchemotherapy. As for highly differentiated or moderatelydifferentiated glandular cancer, however, I will advise patients togive up radiotherapy or chemotherapy, because such treatment is notsensitive to cancer cells and does not kill them effectively;instead, it does great harm to patients’ normal cells. If theyinsist on receiving radiotherapy or chemotherapy, it does no goodto them, and will produce potential risks for future treatment,because it will be difficult to control the cancer cells in therelapse after radiotherapy or chemotherapy. The highlydifferentiated glandular cancer can be eliminated by takingtraditional Chinese medicines, even if no surgery has beenperformed. If chemotherapy is used after surgery, the effect isoften quite the opposite. In fact, intake of the general anticancertraditional Chinese medicines will control the cancer quite well.For the moderately differentiated glandular cancer, high-dosenontoxic anticancer TCM therapy is required to control the cancernidus. It is possible to eliminate the nidus if it is small. If thenidus is big, surgery is acceptable, but chemotherapy is notrecommended after surgery. Instead, traditional Chinese medicinesshould be taken, but such medication should be continuous and lastfor at least one to two years, and after that, traditional Chinesemedicines may be taken intermittently.
However, the reality now is thatWestern medicine shows no regard at all for the degree ofmalignancy of cancer cells, and administers routinized chemotherapyfour times, six times or even eight times to almost all cancerpatients after surgery without regard to their actual situations.Such abuse of chemotherapy is undoubtedly an over-treatment.Therefore, by relying on the nontoxic anticancer therapy, I opposesuch practice, or challenge the traditional toxic anticancertherapy which is now dominant in the medical field.
Then how do I treat those big tumorsor cancer of late stage with systemic metastasis? In this case, TCMalone is not enough, so Chinese medicine and Western medicine mustbe combined. However, I still adhere to my principle of nontoxiccancer fighting. That is, I only use those nontoxic and reallyeffective anticancer therapies in Western medicine, such asimmunotherapy, ultrasonic knife therapy and oncogene blocktherapy.
Tumors may grow very big in theabdominal cavity, such as liver cancer and sarcoma, and it isdifficult to “remove” them by relying on TCM alone. In this case, Ioften first use the ultrasonic knife therapy to minimize the sizeof the tumor, and then continue with long-term TCM anticancertherapy. Many hospitals have the ultrasonic knife equipment, butthe skills of surgeons vary greatly from person to person.Normally, the ultrasonic knife therapy is given only once. Afterpositioning by the computer, high thermal energy is used to aim atthe nidus and completely burn it. As tissue necrosis occurs withina short time, drastic reactions may be produced locally, such asedema, pain and high fever, so patients often need to benarcotized. The ultrasonic knife experts who have cooperated withme for long, however, divide one therapy into seven therapies ordozens of therapies, and use intermittent heating, so as to ensurethat the surrounding normal tissues are not harmed. The advantageof this therapy is that it is very safe, because each therapy onlyburns a small piece of nidus, so the local reaction is quite small,and patients can hardly feel any discomfort. The therapy is like awoodpecker nesting, “fusing” the greater part of tumors.Afterwards, the oncogene block therapy, immunotherapy and long-termTCM therapy may be used to achieve “survival with tumors in vivo”and eventual cure of the cancer.
Then what is oncogene block therapy?This concerns Dr. Gregg Semenza from Johns Hopkins University inAmerica. In 1992, he became the founder of the hypoxia research ashe discovered the hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF1). The HIF-1 genecan activate a group of genes, and perform certain first aidfunctions in vivo. When a certain part of the body suffers fromischemia or anoxia due to injury, the HIF-1 gene mainly activatesthe metabolic pathway of anaerobic glycolysis of the affectedtissues.
Regarding the causes of cancer,professor Otto Heinrich Warburg, a famous medical expert inGermany, has put forward the “anoxia theory.” He points out throughhis study that when the oxygen content of the tissue cells of thehuman body is 65 percent lower than the normal value, the tissuecells with oxygen deficiency will be cancerated. Cancer cells arealso called anaerobic cells or hypoxic cells. Now it is generallyrecognized by the medical community that the HIF-1 gene is a“master switch” of cancer which controls the activities of hundredsof cancer genes.
Domestic researchers have found thatboth activation and blockade of the malignant proliferation ofcells are realized through mobilizing the chromatin peptide whichis degraded by the transcription factor of cell multiplicationduring the “Blocking Effect of Broken Key Peptide”. From thisperspective, as long as patients have not developed any completefailure of vital signs or any fatal organ failure, doctors mayutilize the chromatin peptide degraded by the HIF-1 transcriptionfactor to inhibit or cut off the malignization of cells, so as tostabilize cancer patients’ conditions and save their lives. Chineseresearchers seem to have found an inhibitor by utilizing the“effect of broken key peptide.” and developed the chromatin peptidedrug known as “gene silencing” in an attempt to shut down this“master switch” of cancer. In this way, the human genes chain’sinsertion into the cell nucleus is simulated naturally andeffectively, which not only prevents cancer cells from spreading,but also prevents other gene keys from opening the gate of cancercell growth again. In short, the oncogene block therapy means thatthe human body’s own specific chromatin peptide is utilized toblock the anaerobic metabolism initiator of cancer cells, just likea key broken inside the switch, so as to cut off the nutrition forcancer cells, and “starve” cancer cells.
Now it seems that my hard work paysoff. Finally I have successfully set foot on a road of nontoxiccancer fighting. I am able to combine together several reallyeffective nontoxic anticancer therapies: traditional Chinesemedicines + food therapy + thermal therapy + oncogene block therapy+ immunotherapy + psychotherapy, which is the rudiment of thenontoxic anticancer therapy. Obviously, this new way of treatingcancer is far safer and more effective than the traditional toxicanticancer therapy, which consists in surgery + radiotherapy +chemotherapy. Though the latter is still the mainstream way oftreatment at present, it is foreseeable that the nontoxicanticancer therapy will eventually replace the toxic anticancertherapy.
Now many overseas patients, most ofwhom are Americans, are coming all the way from afar to seek TCMtreatment from me. Some of these patients are wise Jews who arevery interested in TCM and are looking forward to reading my book.I want to express my thanks to New World Press. With its efforts,the revised edition of Treatment of Cancer The ChineseWay is to be published soon. Meanwhile,the English edition of another book of mine Nontoxic Cancer Fighting—My MedicalThoughts has also been included in thepublishing plan, but it is a pity that no fund support orsponsorship has been received. I believe that the publication ofthis book will facilitate publication of the latter. By then, theinternational medical community should be able to understand andaccept the oriental concept of nontoxic cancer fighting, and thusadjust the overall strategy on humankind’s fight againstcancer.
MD. Xie Wenwei
