On The Historical Development And Contemporary Value Of TCM Treatment Of Breast Cancer

Nowadays, the breast cancer is the most common female malignant tumors, and the incidence of it is increasing every year. Thus the prevention and treatment of breast cancer have received more and more attention.The traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has thousand years of history. As early as the Qin and Han dynasties, breast cancer-related symptoms had been documented. From the Wei and Jin Dynasties to Sui and Tang dynasties, more records about principle, method, prescription and drug for breast cancer were found and gradually formed a theoretical system. In the Song, Jin and Yuan Dynasties, a more comprehensive understanding of the symptoms, etiology, pathogenesis and treatment of breast cancer appeared. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, with a comprehensive and complete understanding of all aspects of breast cancer, sub-period and phased treatments of breast cancer were taken seriously. And then a set of more mature theoretical system formed.After the Opium War, the TCM’s treatment of breast cancer developed despite the impact and resistance of the environment. After the foundation of New China, the TCM’s thoughts was fixed in the form of law which makes the ideological of TCM to be innovative, and a new way of thinking formed in many respects such as postoperative treatment. Family Huang’s understanding and treatment of the breast cancer was worth paying attention to, because they had accumulated a series of effective methods in the etiology and pathogenesis of cognition, syndrome differentiation and cases.TCM formed a complete system of thoughts and methods to recognize and treat breast cancer on the basis of long-term observations and clinical practices. These ideas and methods still have very high theoretical significance and application value. Doctor of traditional Chinese medicine to modern internal injuries as an important risk factors of breast cancer, and liver have according to XieYu treatment, and embody the unique curative effect in practice. The side effects of traditional Chinese medicine treatment of breast cancer are relatively small, and in the aspect of making up for the inadequacy of western medicine treatment of breast cancer, it has a positive effect. It can reduce the recurrence rate and prolong survival in patients with breast cancer and improve patients’ quality of life also has a significant effect.In order to take the full advantages of traditional Chinese medicine treatment of breast cancer, the clinical practices should emphasize on the course of treatment of traditional Chinese medicine treatment, formulate reasonable comprehensive treatment scheme. Only in this way, the Chinese medicine treatment of breast cancer can really become an important method of the modern clinical comprehensive treatments.