who among you are cancer survivors who undergone...

[chartreuse]

...western treatment and took chinese medicine? who among you is a cancer survivor who undergone western treatment like radiation therapy and chemotherapy while taking chinese herbal medicine at the same time?

[simonw]

I didn't, because the chinese medicine could have interfered with my medical treatment.

[amitooblou]

i did! i was being given ABVD for hodgkin's lymphoma and i had a friend who was an herbalist, she gave me some miatake (spelling may not be correct) mushroom extract that has been shown in japan to shrink tumors. my oncologist was very skeptical but said if i wanted to use it in conjunction with my chemo that he didn't have a problem with it. i'm going on 10 years of being cancer free. can't say for sure if it helped, but it didn't hurt either.

[Jaskita Smason]

Hi, my grandmother is a cancer patient and yes, she is taking Chinese medication with western treatment. It's not to heal her, but rather, strengthen her. We get it from a place called tong zi yuan, FOC cancer helping Chinese medicine shop