Week 7, TCM and Cancer

TCM, unlike Western Medicine, looks to the entire individual (physical, emotional, spiritual) and and his/her lifestyle to understand and treat cancer. Every cancer patient is a different case and must be treated differently according to his/her constitution, symptoms, lifestyle, etc. Although there are theoretical ways to explain how and why cancer develops in the body in TCM, how the causes interact with each person is different. Cancer, then, isn't just a problem with a person's cells going wrong and requires the entire body to heal in order for the disease to be gone.