Macrobiotics for Cancer Treatment, an Exhausted Woman with Ulcerative Lip Tumor

The patient is Tran Thi Y. (64 years old, from Hoang Hoa district, Thanh Hoa province) who recently came to Tan Trieu K Hospital ( Hanoi ) for examination due to a very large wart lesion occupying the entire lip and mouth area. The tumor always bleeds, oozes pus, and is deformed, causing loss of aesthetics.

At K Hospital, the results of the CT scan showed that the tumor in the lower lip area was very large (15 x 20 cm) and had "eaten" into the lower jaw bone, spread to the floor of the mouth, tongue, and metastasized to many lymph nodes on both sides of the neck, measuring 2 - 3 cm. Patient Y. was hospitalized with a diagnosis of lower lip cancer T4N2M0.

The very large lip cancer mass caused the female patient to have a deformity in her lower jaw area.

Taking the medical history of patient Y., the doctors learned that the patient had this tumor about 3 years ago but had "treated" himself with a macrobiotic diet following the instructions of some acquaintances.

Over a long period of time, patient Y's health gradually deteriorated, while the tumor grew in size. Recently, the tumor grew faster, larger, and caused deformation, so the patient went to K Hospital for examination.

Dr. Ngo Xuan Quy, Head of the Department of Head and Neck Surgery (K Hospital), said that upon admission to the hospital, through a general assessment, doctors found that the patient was in a weakened state; had severe diabetes with high blood sugar, always fluctuating at 20 mmol/liter, with a potential risk of coma.

Because the tumor appeared in the lip area, invaded the surrounding area, and had a large resection area, the doctor had to consider very carefully and at the same time had to resuscitate the patient well to ensure the surgery.

"In this case, if the patient does not have surgery, the tumor will grow larger, ulcerate, bleed, seriously affect health, and even risk death," Dr. Quy assessed.

Macrobiotics have not been proven to cure cancer.

After consultation and careful advice to the patient about the treatment plan, patient Y. was operated on by Dr. Ngo Xuan Quy and the surgical team of the Department of Head and Neck Surgery to widen the lesion, remove the entire tumor and metastatic lymph nodes in the neck.

Currently, nearly 1 week after surgery, patient Y. is in stable health, can eat, talk and will continue to be monitored, treated and have lip reconstruction surgery.

Dr. Quy shared: "Up to now, there is no scientific basis or research to prove and recognize macrobiotics as a cancer treatment method; there is also no official research showing that macrobiotics is useful for patients.

As soon as patients notice any abnormal signs in their body, they should visit a specialist and receive treatment with the advice of doctors for the best results. With multimodal regimens applied such as surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, immunotherapy, targeted therapy... cancer treatment will be effective and the quality of life of patients will be increasingly improved.

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