Tuesday, 22 January 2013

Using Chinese herbs to manage the side effects of radiation therapy


Dear Members

The NPC One Heart exco committee is happy to announce that the February month talk will be on "Using Chinese Herbs to manage the side effects of Radiation Therapy". Every year TCM is a favourite topic of the members as evidenced by the numerous questions and attendance at previous talks. There many in our group too who are seeing a TCM practitioner even years after completing their treatment,. 

Members will be delighted to know that the speaker is from Eu Yan San which is reputable for premium Chinese medicinal herbs and top notch TCM Physician . Our support group is thankful to  Eu Yan San for giving this privilege to our members. The speaker will not be sharing the clinical aspect of the illness but the using of TCM Herbs to manage the side effects.  She will also be answering members’ questions after the talk. I am sure the staff from nuh and ttsh will be interested too as these are the questions that the patients often asked them.  

The speaker is  Dr Tang Yue . She graduated from Nanjin University of TCM with a Ph.D in integrated ( Traditional Chinese and Western ) Medicine as well as a Bachelor in Traditional Chinese Medicine from Shanghai University of TCM ( China ) She is a registered TCM physician and acupuncturist with more than 15 years of clinical practise. Her special areas of interest include acupuncture for various eye conditions, pain management , cancer management insomnia as well as beauty and wellness.

The meeting will starts at 2pm with several survivors sharing about their TCM experiences . The Speaker will come after her clinic hours on Saturday . The talk will begin at 3pm .

Dear Members if you have any other questions please do email me so that I can forward to Dr Tang Yue for her to answer them . This way the talk will be more relevant to your needs .

The talk will be in Mandarin with a translator.

Mr. Peter Tang
NPC cancer survivor
Volunteer/ Chair in NPC One Heart Support Group

World Cancer Day 2nd February 2013

Hi everyone,

I would like to extend an invitation to join NCIS in the World Cancer Day event from 4-8p.m on the 2nd February 2013.

For those who had cancer, winning against the fight for cancer is a significant event in their lives. For those who has no cancer, there is a 1 in 4 chance of cancer occurring during their lifetime. For those who work with cancer patients, it has been our desire and goal to cure cancers and to celebrate this event. For those who cannot be cured, it is our goal to make the process of living with cancer easier and to make the end of life event bearable and peaceful. For all these reason, the World Cancer Day is marked on February 4 not only to  raise awareness of cancer and to encourage its prevention, detection, and treatment but also to stand together as one to mark this event and to be proud of being a healthcare worker and a cancer survivor. 

These are some of the websites for info:


http://www.worldcancerday.org/wcd-home
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/events/annual/world_cancer_day/en/index.html
http://www.cancer.org/cancer/news/features/world-cancer-day-2012


All are welcome.

For NPC patients, I have organised a special transport with NCIS Corp Comm to make a bus available at 4p.m  to transport all of you who are going to the TCM talk on the 2nd Feb at NUH Tower block lobby. The TCM talk will last from 2-4p.m. At 4p.m, please come down on time to the Tower block lobby to board the bus to West  Coast park. There will also be bus transport back to NUH Tower block at 730p.m and to Kent Ridge MRT. 

For the TCM talk, it will be interesting to come and learn more and to invite your other friends as well from other hospitals or who have other cancers besides NPC as the topic should be general use of TCM in cancer and specifically at Radiotherapy related side effects. 

Here is our World Cancer day facebook page:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/World-Cancer-Day-Singapore/134282220062188

Click LIKE! ;) 

Here is the youtube video on NCIS Seeds of Hope event Nov 2012. You may spot yourself!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-GWATJVe7A

With kind regards,

Dr. Choo Bok Ai
Consultant Radiation Oncologist
NCIS- NUH - TTSH
Assistant Professor 
Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine NUS