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KMID : 0644320030090010089
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Journal of Korean Oriental Oncology
2003 Volume.9 No. 1 p.89 ~ p.97
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Study on relation between tongue diagnosis with cancer : a review of literature
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Lim Jong-Won
Yoo Hwa-Seung
Cho Jung-Hyo
Son Chang-Gue
Lee Yeon-Weol
Cho Chong-Kwan
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Abstract
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Recently, the occurrence and death rates of cancer have increased rapidly. In oriental medicine, the tongue gives some kind of special physiological information on human body. Oriental medical doctors have used information about the color, degree of wetness and shape of the patient’s tongue to determine patient’s disease and body condition. This fact leads us that the tongue image is one of the most important clinical data for helping doctor’s decision making. It also has significant meaning to cancer patients related with traditional theory of oriental medicine. In diagnosis and treatment of cancer, tongue diagnosis can give some prognosis and change o cancer. It also detect the sign of early stage cancer, but it cannot diagnose the kind of cancer and/or benign or malignant. Nowadays BioTechnology(BT) has developed rapidly, but there are a lot of limits(economy, accuracy, clinical significance, etc). Tongue diagnosis is very economic and practical way of diagnose and has a lot of possibility of development. The need for doctors and it also helps the development of tongue diagnosis related with cancer.
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KEYWORD
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tonguediagnosis, prognosis, cancer, digitaltongueinspection
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