Yancheng Dexin - Chinese medicine to prevent breast cancer, before the disease can be prevented first

In China, the incidence and mortality of breast cancer in the past 10 years have shown an upward trend, and the growth rate is higher than that of developed countries, which is the most common and high-incidence malignant tumor in Chinese women, and it is also the "first killer" of women's health. Is there no other way to prevent breast cancer than to screen early and regularly and treat it aggressively after early detection?

Breast cancer dies every day in 165 women, and breast cancer screening should be done once a year over the age of 40

The latest statistics show that on average, 37 out of every 100,000 Chinese women have breast cancer. Its incidence increases with age after the age of 30 and peaks at the age of 55. About 60,000 people die of breast cancer every year, and 165 Chinese women die of breast cancer every day.

Lin Yi introduced that modern medicine believes that the multi-stage development mode of breast cancer is "normal epithelial → hyperplasia→ atypical hyperplasia→ carcinoma in situ → invasive carcinoma", and medical clinical experiments have also confirmed that there is a basis for taking various measures to delay, block or even reverse the precancerous state in this process.

The main known risk factors for breast cancer are: age, family history, BRCA1/2 gene mutations, menstrual history, history of fertility and breastfeeding, estrogen effects, previous breast disease history, ionizing radiation and regional ethnic factors; other related factors include mental trauma, long-term depression, excessive stress, poor eating habits, environmental pollution, long-term lack of exercise and postmenopausal obesity. The key to the success of breast cancer prevention lies in the correct screening of patients with high risk factors for monitoring and treatment.

Experts recommend that women over the age of 40 receive breast cancer screening at least once a year, and for those with high-risk factors, start screening early and review it regularly. Patients with benign breast disease with multiple risk factors, especially those with atypical breast hyperplasia, should be intervened as soon as possible.

Traditional Chinese medicine breast disease: conditioning the "soil" of cancer is the top priority

Professor Lin Yi is known as "the pioneer and founder of traditional Chinese medicine breast disease", she believes that breast cancer is not terrible, focusing on early detection and early intervention. However, in her view, Traditional Chinese medicine has outstanding advantages in breast cancer prevention, which can delay and block the development process of normal cells - cancer cells - malignant tumors.

There is no doubt that the occurrence of breast cancer involves genetics, environment, psychology, lifestyle and many other aspects, but malignant tumor is a state, tumor cells are differentiated and mutated from normal cells, and tumor cells and the body's internal environment are the relationship between "seed" and "soil".

Therefore, the occurrence and development of breast cancer is not only due to the existence of the "seed" of breast cancer cells, but also needs to rely on the imbalance of the body's internal environment, that is, the imbalance of the body's internal organs, meridians, qi and blood function, to provide "soil" for the occurrence and development of breast cancer. The growth of cancer further aggravates the imbalance of the internal environment, forming a vicious circle.

Lin Yi said: "We found that the pathological changes of air stagnation, sputum coagulation, blood stasis, and sputum stasis interlocking throughout the development of breast cancer. "Therefore, emphasizing lifestyle improvement and regulating internal environmental disorders is the top priority in preventing breast cancer."

The four ways of Chinese medicine enhance women's self-healing power and protect breast care to prevent breast cancer

Cancer cells are differentiated from the mutation of normal cells in the human body, and when the body's autoimmune mechanism is complete, immune cells can be mobilized to engulf and kill abnormal cells, then the tumor does not occur, that is, the positive qi is stored in the body, and the evil cannot be dried. Therefore, TCM to prevent breast cancer advocates actively mobilizing the body's self-healing ability to fight cancer cells and prevent cancer from occurring. Lin Yi believes that women have four key ways to enhance their self-healing power:

1. Maintain a good attitude. If the emotion is comfortable, the liver qi is adjusted, the qi machine is smooth, and the phlegm is not stasis.

2. Eat a balanced diet. Water Valley Xia Na, a metamorphic essence to nourish the five internal organs, but also to help the spleen and stomach healthy luck, rise and fall and order, qi and blood flow around.

3. Get enough sleep. When people are quiet, the blood returns to the liver, and adequate rest can help qi and blood to grow.

4. Keep exercising. Movement is yang, static is yin, and movement is measured, then yang is born yin. In terms of sports, Lin Yi also specially combined the occurrence, development, physiology and pathological characteristics of female breast diseases to create the "Women's Health Guidance Exercise". Through the organic combination of breathing exercise, mind movement and limb movement (with massage), the three movements, shapes and gods are achieved to achieve the effect of lifting and lowering turbidity, performing qi and invigorating blood, dredging meridians, adjusting internal organs, and soothing yin and yang, so as to achieve the purpose of strengthening the body and maintaining the breast.