What are the advantages of modern medicine?

Question

My school is having a debate competition on topic " Modern Medicine vs Alternative Medicine". I will be debate about the advantages of modern medicine. Can someone provide me some of the information regarding the above topic? Thank you.

Answer 1

Have a look at the wiki pages I have cited below.

Being a doctor and using "Modern Medicine" as you call it (some would call it "Western Medicine" or "Allopathic Medicine") I'm afraid my opinions may well be interpreted as a little skewed.

Western Medicine is the mainstream of medicine (health care) as is taught and in practice in most developed countries. It has a long history, although perhaps not as long as the histories of some of the traditional forms of medicine.

While it remains somewhat outside the realm of hard science, it has drawn heavily from scientific thought and adopted the scientific process wherever it can possibly be implemented. It has applied science as best it can to the grassroots origins of herbalism, the greek theory of humours, and other premodern beliefs such as "spontaneous generation". These have investigated and the useful areas adopted, the useless ones dropped. New theories have been formulated as more and more truth information has come to light.

The major strength of modern medicine lies in its application of science. It has the capacity to grow and adapt - adopting interventions and ideas from other areas of health care as evidence comes to light showing that they are effective (eg. acupuncture and hypnotherapy - previously in disrepute - have been found to have applications in medicine and are now adopted).

Other areas are currently being evaluated - nutritional medicine, prolotherapy - areas such as these have advocates in medicine as well as detractors. They are not yet considered mainstream.

Answer 2

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What are the advantages of modern medicine?
My school is having a debate competition on topic " Modern Medicine vs Alternative Medicine". I will be debate about the advantages of modern medicine. Can someone provide me some of the information regarding the above topic? Thank you.

Answer 3

Modern pure traditional Chinese medicine combating cancers with multi-channels----Combination of traditional Chinese and western medicine with complementary advantages
The modern ¡¥Nuclear weapon¡¦ of cancer therapy----radio-particle knife

The modern minimally invasive target direction ablation operation---Orientation destruction
Modern cutting off the blood supply of tumor. ---¡¥starving¡¦ tumor

Modern NSC thermal therapy with special machine (It will create a internal electrical area to treat people with high frequency)---Heating and killing tumor
Improved new chemical weapon with effect enhancement and toxic decrease----Green chemical therapy

The laser weapon of modern tumor therapy---PDT
Modern internal trestle technology---piping intercurrent dredging technology

Modern biological therapy---Biological missile
Modern genetic superconducting therapy----targeting to root of cancer

Modern multi-discipline experts treatment---Comprehensive therapy with multi-disciplines and various measures
PET/CT---Tumor scout
Third. The modern minimally invasive target direction ablation operation---Orientation destruction
It includes physical ablation and chemical ablation. Under the guidance of image picture, we will pour thermal source machinery and anti-cancer chemicals into tumor through skin puncture. It has known as a ablation knife ( it is not a real knife) because it has a clear ablation objective, no strong side effect and the same result with other operation.


The features of ablation knife
1) Image guidance, real-time monitoring and accuracy. No need to conduct operation. Therapy by skin puncture with partial narcosis.

2) Little damage, pain and side effect. Rapid recovering.

3) Fine medical effect.




Four. Modern cutting off the blood supply of tumor. ---¡¥starving¡¦tumor


Tumor's survival must be dependent on nutrition supply from vessel and its growth must rely on the blood capillary. We could starve the tumor by controlling tumor nutrition.

1) Through cutting off the growth of tumor vessels, the vessel-growth-prevention therapy with combination of the traditional Chinese and western medicine will realize the objective of restraint and treatment of tumor. It boasts some advantages, such as clear target, non-drug tolerance and little side effect. Some ingredients in

traditional Chinese medicine can prevent growth tumor vessels.

2) The arterial embolism operation and chemical therapy embolism operation have adopted vessel embolism drug to cut off vessel supply and tumor nutrition supply to starve tumor. The combination of embolism drug and chemical therapy drug will cut off the vessel supply to play a role of partial medical therapy. It has not any side effect to body.

Five. Modern NSC thermal therapy with special machine (It will create a internal electrical area to treat people with high frequency)---Heating and killing tumor


Under the computer control, we will utilize NSC thermal therapy to kill tumor cells, but not normal cells. This special will also enhance chemical therapy and radiotherapy effect and body's immune power and restrain transfer of tumor. It is without side effect and contributing no impact on environment. It has won the international recognition as the green therapy. It is suitable to body tumor treatment.

Application of NSC thermal therapy
1) The single thermal treatment. Killing tumor, alleviating tumor pain. It is effective to control ascites and dropsy of chest.

2) It can combine the chemical therapy to increase drug concentration , increase therapy impact more than ten times, decrease side effect and delay drug tolerance.

3) It can combine with radiotherapy. NSC thermal therapy can hot-killing cells in S period. This will counteract the radioactive rays¡¦ weakness so as to boost sensitiveness and effect.

4) It can combine with ablation therapy. It can beef up the ablation effect to kill tumor cells more comprehensively and bolster body immunity on combating tumor.




Six. Improved new chemical weapon with effect enhancement and toxic decrease----Green chemical therapy


Chemical therapy is a double-edged straight sword. It can be useful and fatal. Entire body chemical therapy leads to patient's tremendous pain because its side effect is toxic. The blind chemical therapy is not good for life's quality improvement or even will accelerate dying. The improving chemical therapy conducted by tumor treatment center of Tumor research institute of Modern Hospital Guangzhou is famous for its effectiveness and little toxic impact. It is praised as green therapy.
1) Regional pouring chemical therapy technology. The super-choice tumor blood supply arterial pouring cancer-combating drug will be impacted on tumor area with high density and clear target. Its medical effects have been increased dramatically and toxic side effects have been decreases drastically. We take the tube into hypodermic area for one time and make use it in many times.

2) Double-path pouring chemical therapy. Regional pouring chemical therapy and internal chest thermal pouring will lead to high drug density against tumor, lasting impact time and more assured effects.

3) Certain hour chemical therapy. In accordance of life circle rules, we will make use of multiplex programming drug pump to provide drugs continuously in the most sensitive time to achieve the best effect with minimum medicine.

4) Thermal chemical therapy. Conducting integration of chemical therapy and thermal therapy to strengthen medical effects.

Seven. The laser weapon of modern tumor therapy---PDT
The photodynamic therapy (PDT) is an excellent achievement of traditional tumor therapy ideals. The principle is as follows. A special photosensitive drug will be injected into human body and then it will selectively stock in tumor organizations after sometime. The photosensitive

drug in the tumor will be activated by laser irradiation with special wavelength and then conduct light-activated reaction to lead to cytotoxicity with the joint effort of oxygen. At last, it will kill tumor cells without any impact on normal cells.

The advantages of PDT
1) Selectiveness. Photosensitive drug will be only absorbed by tumor. It is targeted at cancer cells without body¡¦s toxicity and no impact on normal cells.

2) Effectiveness. Light-activated reaction will be created in all tumor cells and eliminate major and hidden focuses.

3) Minimal invasion. Laser guides PDT with optic fibers. Its features are as follows: no operation, short treatment time, minimal invasion and little pain.

4) Comprehensiveness. PDT is effective to various type of cancer cell organization. Its application is not limited to cancer cell types.




Eight. Modern internal trestle technology---piping intercurrent dredging technology


This includes skin puncture drainage technology, narrow or block cavity expansion technology and trestle setting technology. Tumor always sparks off that the mass of human important pipes and normal function. According to disease variety, tumor treatment center of Hospital Guangzhou boasts utilize pipes, internal culvert pipes to treat disease.

1) Radioactive esophagus trestle will be used to resolve the esophagus cancer patient's difficulty such as hard eating. It can also be conducted radioactive therapy.

2) Vessel's internal trestle will be used to resolve the issues such as arterial and vein block constricted by tumor.

3) Biliary trestle will be used to treat biliary atresia and block-caused jaundice constricted by tumor.

4) Windpipe internal trestle will be utilized to treat airway block constricted by tumor.


Nine. Modern biological therapy---Biological missile
We utilize bio-therapy to activate immune reaction to combat, restraint and kill cancer cells. The objective of bio-therapy is to motivate human's natural cancer-combating capability to recover the balance of internal environment. At present, immune therapy has been used widely in hospital. Our tumor treatment center conducts a series of immune therapy such as: aspecific immune enhancing drug, various lymph factors, tumor-combating antibody, specific and aspecific secondary cell immune therapy, as well as tumor immune vaccine.



Ten. Modern genetic superconducting therapy----targeting to root of cancer
Cancer belongs to gene disease. It is a multi-phase long process that internal pre-cancer genes are activated and cancer-restraining genes are devitalized which with the impact of outer environment factors on human cells. Therefore, genetic therapy is a radical measure to treat
cancers and an essential road to surmount tumor difficulties. Genetic superconductivity is to make use of genetic treatment drugs (genetic engineering virus pellet) to guide the normal genes and DNA sequence into body's target cells (such as tumor suicide gene and tumor immune genes) to rectify gene flaws and treat diseases. Therefore, genetic therapy is targeting the root of disease---abnormal genes.



Eleven. Modern multi-discipline experts treatment---Comprehensive therapy with multi-disciplines and various measures
There are advantages and disadvantages in each therapy. Comprehensive therapy is that different discipline experts conduct discussion to utilize various treatment to integrate their advantages and offset their weakness to reach best treatment effects. Tumor research institute of Modern
Hospital Guangzhou boasts international advanced hi-tech therapy and experts with different disciplines to break discipline barriers, assess the cases, discuss together, clarify therapy objective, balance the advantages and disadvantages of every treatment, formulate better and personal comprehensive therapy plans and implement them so as to increase treatment rate and improve life quality. Meanwhile, we have avoid some disadvantages that be lack of experts collaboration, underdevelopment of treatment means, normal effects and increase of body and economic burdens.



Twelve. PET/CT---Tumor scout
It is the most advanced image equipment in the world and the unique function and supersession image technology conducted by dissection. Because cancer cells absorb high fluoride deoxy glucose, it can check out tiny cancer focus and potential cancer focus in early stage with high resolution
and sensitivity. Diagnosis rate reaches 92--95¢M. It can be utilized into distinguish benign tumor and malignant tumor, check out tiny cancer focus and potential cancer focus in early stage, classify period and grade of malignant tumor and monitor the therapy effects .