re: Male Breast Cancer Patients May Face Greater Risks of Cancer Returning

Josh Rubin — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 22:28:23 GMT

Sorry, but yes TCM stands for Traditional Chinese Medicine.

re: Male Breast Cancer Patients May Face Greater Risks of Cancer Returning

Josh Rubin — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 19:29:11 GMT

You can look at this from many angles. My opinions are many:
1. Men have estrogen just like women, but of course a smaller amount. Being vegetarian, having high cortisol levels, and eating foods that are in or around xenobiotics will increase your estrogen levels, while decreasing your DHEA, Pregnenolone and testosterone levels.

2. TCM beleives breast cancer is the cause of internal anger which affects the liver and spleen. There are four patterns: Liver Qi Stagnation (hard masses without pain and redness); Phlegm Heat Obstruction (hard masses with sharp pain and redness and swelling); Liver Kidney Deficiency (hard lumps with swelling and a dimpled appearance of the breast skin, discharges and indentation of the nipple); Qi Blood Deficiency (hard lumps with swelling, ruptured abscesses, spreading to the surrounding areas).

There are many functional medicine tests that can be run to find out the hormonal well being of a client. Then from there the client can be treated with bioidentical hormones. If a client has had or has cancer, then the bioidentical hormones are contraindicated.

As for TCM, there are many various acpunture treatments and herbs that are great for the treatments above.