ZUO Shanshan, LI Jin. Traditional Chinese Medicine Nursing for a Patient with Secondary Rectal Malignancy (Phlegm-Stasis Intermingling Syndrome): A Case Report[DB/OL].Clinical Archives of Integrative Medicine, 2026.
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ZUO Shanshan, LI Jin. Traditional Chinese Medicine Nursing for a Patient with Secondary Rectal Malignancy (Phlegm-Stasis Intermingling Syndrome): A Case Report[DB/OL].Clinical Archives of Integrative Medicine, 2026.DOI: 10.12209/CAIM202606140005.
Traditional Chinese Medicine Nursing for a Patient with Secondary Rectal Malignancy (Phlegm-Stasis Intermingling Syndrome): A Case Report
This report presents a complex case involving multiple tumor metastases. The subject was a 58-year-old female patient with primary endometrial cancer who developed secondary rectal metastasis after multiple antitumor treatments, complicated by incomplete intestinal obstruction and a history of multiple surgical procedures. Based on pattern differentiation in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), the patient was diagnosed with intestinal cancer presenting as phlegm-stasis intermingling syndrome. The nursing care was centered on the core principles of resolving phlegm, expelling stasis, promoting qi movement, and relieving pain. A multidimensional nursing assessment was conducted, nursing diagnoses corresponding to the syndrome differentiation results were established, and TCM external treatment techniques including herbal washing, acupoint application, and auricular point pressing with seeds were applied, alongside Western medicine approaches such as vital sign monitoring, dietary regulation, emotional care, and targeted prevention of complications. After 6 days of intervention, the phlegm-stasis-related symptoms including abdominal distension and bearing-down sensation, poor appetite, and fatigue were significantly alleviated, no new complications occurred, and the patient's treatment compliance improved markedly. This case practice demonstrates that the integration of traditional Chinese and Western medicine in syndrome-based nursing can effectively alleviate physical discomfort symptoms in patients with advanced metastatic tumors, providing a referable practical basis for the implementation of individualized TCM nursing in cancer patients with multiple underlying diseases.
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