Ms. Wen, a 44-year-old female patient with breast cancer from Huadu District, Guangzhou City, was treated at Jiaozuo Zhonghai TCM Cancer Hospital. In the spring of 2025, 44-year-old Ms. Wen stood in the consulting room of our hospital, a thick stack of medical records clenched in her hand, her eyes a mix of despair and hope. This woman from Guangzhou had been fighting breast cancer for a full eleven years.
Going back to 2014, Ms. Wen underwent a right mastectomy with breast implant reconstruction and four cycles of chemotherapy at a local hospital. She thought the nightmare was over, but six months ago, she felt a hard lump in her left breast during a self-examination. To her heartbreak, further examinations revealed not only a malignant tumor in the left breast, but also multiple metastases to the left axillary lymph nodes, both lungs and multiple bones.
"The doctors advised me to start radiotherapy and chemotherapy immediately, but I refused," Ms. Wen recalled. "The agonizing experience of chemotherapy ten years ago left me with a lingering fear." Over the following six months, she tried TCM treatment locally, but with little effect. At the time of her visit to our hospital, severe low back and back pain had seriously impaired her ability to walk and sleep, leading to a sharp decline in her quality of life.
Director Zhang, the attending physician, carefully reviewed Ms. Wen’s medical records and identified this as a typical case of advanced metastatic breast cancer. "The patient has developed multi-organ metastases and has a strong resistance to Western medical treatment," he noted. After a thorough assessment of her condition, Director Zhang formulated a tailored treatment plan: an empirical TCM formula for breast tumors, modified according to her symptoms, combined with Hua’ai Xiaoliu Powder, alongside inpatient comprehensive treatment that included blood glucose-lowering therapy.
To great surprise, after just one course of treatment (20 days), Ms. Wen’s low back and back pain were significantly relieved, and the lump in her left breast had shrunk by half. A follow-up CT scan after two courses of treatment showed that most of the lung metastatic lesions had shrunk or even disappeared, and the pain caused by bone metastases had been completely alleviated.
"Now I can sleep soundly through the night and walk normally again," Ms. Wen said with a smile returning to her face at the follow-up consultation. "I never expected TCM to have such an amazing effect!"
