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KMID : 1191520080130010055
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Journal of Korean Traditional Oncology
2008 Volume.13 No. 1 p.55 ~ p.61
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Quality of Life Improved with Allergen-removed Rhus Verniciflua Stokes based Traditional Korean Medicine on a Patient with Refractory Rectal cancer : Single Case Report
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Kim Na-Hee
Park Jae-Woo
Kim Kyung-Suk
Jung Hyun-Sik
Choi Won-Cheol
Yoon Sung-Woo
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Abstract
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Nearly 800,000 new colorectal cancer cases are believed to be occur each year, which account for approximately 10% of all incident cancers, and mortality from colorectal cancer is estimated at nearly 450,000 per year. We report one patient with rectal cancer of stage III. The patient had a rectal cancer(StageIII T3N2M0) and underwent low anterior resection in 2004 followed by chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Lymph node metastases were found in 2005 and the patient was treated by palliative chemotherapy, which could not supress the lymph node metastases increase. The patient visited Kyunghee University East-West Neo Medical Center(KHNMC) in 2006 and was treated using allergen-removed Rhus Verniciflua Stokes(aRVS). Radiotherapy was done simultaneously in 2006. There was no evidence of recurrence since then. The patient showed no side effects. This case report brings forth the importance of a thorough study in rectal cancer in the traditional Korean medical point of view, along with the long-term effect of aRVS.
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KEYWORD
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Rectal cancer, Herb, Radiotherapy, Allergen-removed Rhus Verniciflua Stokes (aRVS)
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