Study on relation between tongue diagnosis with cancer : a review of literature

설진과 종양의 관계에 대한 연구

  • Lim, Jong-Won (Department of East-West Cancer Center, College of Oriental Medicine, Daejeon University) ;
  • Yoo, Hwa-Seung (Department of East-West Cancer Center, College of Oriental Medicine, Daejeon University) ;
  • Cho, Jung-Hyo (Department of East-West Cancer Center, College of Oriental Medicine, Daejeon University) ;
  • Son, Chang-Kyu (Department of East-West Cancer Center, College of Oriental Medicine, Daejeon University) ;
  • Lee, Yeon-Weol (Department of East-West Cancer Center, College of Oriental Medicine, Daejeon University) ;
  • Cho, Chong-Kwan (Department of East-West Cancer Center, College of Oriental Medicine, Daejeon University)
  • 임종원 (대전대학교 부속한방병원 동서암센터) ;
  • 유화승 (대전대학교 부속한방병원 동서암센터) ;
  • 조정효 (대전대학교 부속한방병원 동서암센터) ;
  • 손창규 (대전대학교 부속한방병원 동서암센터) ;
  • 이연월 (대전대학교 부속한방병원 동서암센터) ;
  • 조종관 (대전대학교 부속한방병원 동서암센터)
  • Published : 2003.12.30

Abstract

Recently, the occurrence and death rates of cancer have increased rapidly. In oriental medicine, the tongue gives some kind of special physiological information on human body. Oriental medical doctors have used information about the color, degree of wetness and shape of the patient's tongue to determine patient's disease and body condition. This fact leads us that the tongue image is one of the most important clinical data for helping doctor's decision making. It also has significant meaning to cancer patients related with traditional theory of oriental medicine. In diagnosis and treatment of cancer, tongue diagnosis can give some prognosis and change o cancer. It also detect the sign of early stage cancer, but it cannot diagnose the kind of cancer and/or benign or malignant. Nowadays BioTechnology(BT) has developed rapidly, but there are a lot of limits(economy, accuracy, clinical significance, etc). Tongue diagnosis is very economic and practical way of diagnose and has a lot of possibility of development. The need for doctors and it also helps the development of tongue diagnosis related with cancer.

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