Supportive Cancer Care with Chinese Medicine

1. Front Matter

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2. Supportive Cancer Care Using Chinese Medicine

   • Raimond Wong, Stephen M. Sagar

   Pages 1-37

3. Supportive Cancer Care with Acupuncture

   • Jaung-Geng Lin, Yi-Hung Chen

   Pages 39-54

4. Chinese Medicinal Herbs Use in Managing Cancer

   • Peter Dorsher, Zengfu Peng

   Pages 55-75

5. Supportive Cancer Care with Qigong

   • Myeong Soo Lee, Kevin W. Chen, Edzard Ernst

   Pages 77-94

6. Traditional Chinese Medicine in the Reduction of Discomfort and Side-Effects of Surgery

   • Kok-Yang Tan, Xiaoxiu Wu, Francis Seow-Choen

   Pages 95-107

7. Increasing Therapeutic Gain and Controlling Radiation-Induced Injuries with Asian Botanicals and Acupuncture

   • Stephen M. Sagar, Raimond K. Wong

   Pages 109-139

8. Controlling Chemotherapy-Related Side Effects with Chinese Medicine

   • Shwu-Huey Liu, Yung-Chi Cheng, Muhammad W. Saif

   Pages 141-167

9. Cancer Pain Control with Traditional Chinese Medicine

   • Ting Bao, Lixing Lao, Aditya Bardia

   Pages 169-225

10. Novel Developments on Artemisinin and Its Derivatives for Cancer Therapy

    • Serkan Sertel, Peter K. Plinkert, Thomas Efferth

    Pages 227-251

11. Modern Cancer Research on Chinese Medicine: Acupuncture

    • Ruixin Zhang, Lixing Lao

    Pages 253-270

12. Clinical Trials of Chinese Medicine for the Treatment of Cancer

    • Henry L. M. Liang, Dennis H. T. Chang

    Pages 271-291

13. Toxicology, Safety and Herb–drug Interactions in Cancer Therapy

    • Shu-Feng Zhou

    Pages 293-340

14. Integrating Chinese and Western Medicine in Cancer Treatment

    • Delia Chiaramonte, Lixing Lao

    Pages 341-361

15. Traditional Chinese Medicine in the Prevention and Treatment of Cancer Disease: A Review of the Evidence

    • Jianping Liu, Xun Li, Huijuan Cao, Torkel Snellingen

    Pages 363-379

16. Back Matter

    Pages 381-389

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Cancer is a chronic disease. There are increasing cancer survivors after curative cancer treatment and this makes supportive cancer care an important area that more attention is needed. Chinese medicine has a long history of practice; it has aroused much interest from both Oriental and Western countries. A number of laboratory evidences and clinical trials demonstrated the effectiveness and ef?cacies of Chinese medicine for supportive cancer care. This book attempts to take a comprehensive approach to overview the different areas of Chinese medicine for supportive cancer care. This book not only serves as an introduction to novices to the area and a useful reference for those already involved, but also serves as a stimulus to these and others to employ alternative approaches to current cancer care. Hong Kong William C. S. Cho December 2009 v Contents 1 Supportive Cancer Care Using Chinese Medicine . . . . . . . . . . 1 Raimond Wong and Stephen M. Sagar 2 Supportive Cancer Care with Acupuncture . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Jaung-Geng Lin and Yi-Hung Chen 3 Chinese Medicinal Herbs Use in Managing Cancer . . . . . . . . . 55 Peter Dorsher and Zengfu Peng 4 Supportive Cancer Care with Qigong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Myeong Soo Lee, Kevin W. Chen and Edzard Ernst 5 Traditional Chinese Medicine in the Reduction of Discomfort and Side-Effects of Surgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Kok-Yang Tan, Xiaoxiu Wu and Francis Seow-Choen 6 Increasing Therapeutic Gain and Controlling Radiation-Induced Injuries with Asian Botanicals and Acupuncture 109 Stephen M. Sagar and Raimond K. Wong 7 Controlling Chemotherapy-Related Side Effects with Chinese Medicine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

• Acupuncture
• Chinese Medicine
• Complementary
• Qigong
• surgery
• traditional Chinese medicine

From the reviews:

“The 14 chapters of this reference book sequentially address overviews of supportive cancer care with acupuncture, herbs and qigong … and then approach the topic by TCM’s application to side-effects associated with surgery, radiation therapy and chemotherapy. … The repetition of information and references across chapters from different angles of regard may well serve those readers interested in a subset of the book … . a welcome and more complete contribution to the use of TCM as supportive care in cancer.” (B. R. Cassileth and K. Simon Yeung, Focus on Alternative and Complementary Therapies, Vol. 15 (3), September, 2010)

• Dept. Clinical Oncology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Kowloon, Hong Kong/PR China

  William C.S. Cho