When patients are treated with general chemotherapy, chemo medicine will naturally spread throughout the body. Unfortunately, the drug distribution is not limited to only cancerous areas, but healthy areas as well. For this reason, general chemo has such strong side effects, and is not particularly successful as a therapy. Therefore, we promote transarterial chemo-injection instead of systemic chemotherapy. In this procedure, we insert a catheter and give chemo medicine through the artery that supplies blood to the cancerous area. The advantage...
As part of her anthropology thesis project, Dorte Rasmussen will spend the month of March at Fuda Cancer Hospital to interview the many international patients that have come to Fuda for cancer therapy. As a graduate student at Denmark~s University of Copenhagen, she first learned about Fuda from the over 100 Danish patients that have traveled across the globe for their cancer care. As part of her project, Ms. Rasmussen plans to examine the lives of patients and the effect on family members, as they are immersed in a culture that is seemingly so...
During the time of the year when many families are close to friends and relatives, the patients and family members at Fuda are thinking of home. To help ease the feeling, Fuda held the annual Chinese New Year celebration for all of its patients. Patients were welcomed with good luck charms that can be hung in the room to ward off bad spirits, and to invite more lucky and health for the upcoming new year.
Dr. Rita Lu opened the event by retelling the ancient story of how Chinese New Year began, as well as why this year is known on the zodia...
Dr. Kecheng Xu was stunned, and other experts there were shocked, even after being in medicine for decades, they had never seen such a large abdomen.
Peng Xiao Mei had been uffering from ovarian cancer for 2 years. A poor family, she was reluctant to hurt the loved ones at home, left her home in Hainan, and soon became homeless. She knew she was suffering from cancer, and had hoped that she would die quietly away from her family. Going to the public hospital in a nearby city, she hoped she could die there and have the hospital take ca...
In the January 2010 issue of the Asian Biz Times, highlights the therapies that are taking place at Fuda Cancer Hospital-Guangzhou. The article emphasizes Fuda’s holistic approach as well as the hospital’s determination to simply give palliative care. Many patients choose Fuda, but only after first enduring painful and debilitating sessions of chemotherapy. The message of the story, make Fuda your first choice....
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I was diagnosed with early stage (ie, borderline Stage 1B/2A) breast cancer in 2002. I underwent surgery and 6 cycles of chemotherapy, went home with what my oncologist said was a good prognosis, and thrived cancer-free till 2008.
During a routine check-up, my chest xray and subsequent diagnostics revealed that my breast cancer had recurred and metastasized to my lungs (5 tumors in total). So as a good patient I went through another 6 very expensive cycles READ MORE...
Concept: Cryotherapy / C.I.C. A New, Better Approach to Cancer
At Fuda Cancer Hospital-Guangzhou, we believe cancer therapy goes far beyond chemotherapy, radiation, and conventional surgery. Along with our award-winning history of successfully using cryosurgery to remove solid tumors, Fuda uses immunotherapy as a key treatment to greatly enhance the immune system—especially after harsh chemotherapy—to slow the spread of cancer, prevent metastasis, and improve general health.
Read more about our specialized concept of treatment that concentrates on local (cryosurgery) and systemic (immunotherapy) treatment. The Cryotherapy/CIC program places equal importance on the removal of the tumor itself and on the causes and conditions leading to the body's tendency to develop malignant tumors.
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