Combining Western and Chinese medicine can help ensure a healthy pregnancy.

by | August 30, 2025 | Fertility, Women’s Health

Author: Lai Rongyan, integrative physician between Western and Chinese medicine; Chief Advisor of Ai Gang Medical Group; Former Vice President of Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University / Former Professor of China Medical University; One of the species with the worst reproductive ability on Earth. During a menstrual cycle, only a few days are fertile, and the chance of conception is only 25%. For couples with normal fertility, 10% may not be able to conceive successfully in their first year, and 5% may not be able to achieve their desired outcome in the second year. As the times change, women face the pressure of workplace competition and various environmental problems, which brings more and more infertility cases to the surface, becoming a serious "unbearable burden" plaguing society and families. ...

Treatment strategies for "diverse weeds" in breast cancer

by | August 30, 2025 | Fertility, Women’s Health

Author: Lai Rongyan, Chief Consultant of Integrative Medicine at Yahui Zhongku Medical Center, and former Vice President of the Former China Medical University Affiliated Hospital / Professor at China Medical University. If we define "healing" as the ultimate goal of breast cancer treatment, then "healing" is obviously an impossible task until the "cancer stem cells" with the ability to self-replicate and immortalize are eliminated! A more optimistic approach is that "as long as we continue to study the repair mechanisms of the DNA of cancer stem cells, scientists may be able to develop more targeted treatment regimens in the near future to truly eradicate cancer cells!" Therefore, at this stage, treating stage III and IV breast cancer is not only difficult, but also really difficult! The complexity of breast cancer: from classification to stem cells...

Is breast cancer treatment effective? It's worth the money to "know in advance"!

by | August 30, 2025 | Fertility, Women’s Health

Author: Lai Rongyan, integrative physician between Western and Chinese medicine; Chief Advisor of Yaohua Chinese Medicine; Former Vice President of Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University / Former Professor of China Medical University; Breast cancer patient often asks how long they have to continue receiving chemotherapy, targeted therapy, and hormone therapy. At the beginning, the oncologist said that they need to take the hormone therapy for five years; now it has been five years; now they are saying that it is better to take it for ten years. The lack of available tracking tools...

The discovery of ovarian cancer stem cells and supportive treatment with Chinese medicine

by | August 30, 2025 | Fertility, Women’s Health

Author: Lai Rongyan, a integrative physician of Chinese and Western medicine; Chief Advisor of Aiqun Medical Group; Former Vice President of the Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University / Former Professor of China Medical University; Ovarian Cancer is the fifth most common malignant tumor among women. Despite the continuous development of chemotherapy and surgical techniques in recent years, patients with ovarian cancer usually respond to platinum/taxol chemotherapy at the beginning, but most patients develop drug-resistant tumors within one and a half years after treatment, and deteriorate into conditions such as cancer recurrence and metastasis. Therefore, up to seventy percent of ovarian cancer patients cannot survive for more than five years, which also makes ovarian cancer a highly fatal gynecological malignancy....