Supportive Cancer Care with Chinese Medicine
This book provides a comprehensive coverage and a succinct overview of the current status of supportive cancer care with Chinese medicine written by leading experts in the field. The chapters coherently present an overview on the major treatment approache
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William C.S. Cho Editor
Supportive Cancer Care with Chinese Medicine
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Editor Dr. William Chi-Shing Cho Department Clinical Oncology Queen Elizabeth Hospital 13/F Block R 30 Gascoigne Road Kowloon Hong Kong SAR [email protected]
ISBN 978-90-481-3554-7 e-ISBN 978-90-481-3555-4 DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-3555-4 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2009942718 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
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 efficacies 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 December 2009
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Contents
1 Supportive Cancer Care Using Chinese Medicine . . . . . . . . . . Raimond Wong and Stephen M. Sagar
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2 Supportive Cancer Care with Acupuncture . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jaung-Geng Lin and Yi-Hung Chen
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3 Chinese Medicinal Herbs Use in Managing Cancer . . . . . . . . . Peter Dorsher and Zengfu Peng
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4 Supportive Cancer Care with Qigong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Myeong Soo Lee, Kevin W. Chen and Edzard Ernst
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5 Traditional Chinese Medicine in the Reduction of Discomfort and Side-Effects of Surgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kok-Yang Tan, Xiaoxiu Wu and Francis Seow-Choen
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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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shwu-Huey Liu, Yung-Chi Cheng, and Muhammad W. Saif 8 Cancer Pain Control with Traditional Chinese Medicine . . . . . . Ting Bao, Lixing Lao, and Aditya Bardia 9 Novel Developments on Artemisinin and Its Derivatives for Cancer Therapy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Serkan Sertel, Peter K. Plinkert, and Thomas Efferth
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