| dc.description.abstract | 1、Research Purpose
Cancer, also known as malignancy. From molecular biology point of view, cancer is a kind of abnormal cell proliferation which may metastasize to the surrounding normal tissues, through the circulatory system or the lymphatic system spreads to other parts of the body, eventually leads to invasion and death. Although medical research is making encouraging progress over the past few decades, it has not yet found out the key for curing cancer, in the contrary, more and more people suffer for cancer and die in cancer.
My research is mainly inspired by personal experiences of a group of patients who walked through the valley of shadow of cancer and finally regain their health and a new lease of life. How do they struggle and go through this rough road? Each of them has their own unique and subjective interpretation of the process and the experience, nevertheless they are keys to find out new possibilities for the treatments of cancer which worth our attention.
2、Research Methods
Naturalistic observation method and document analysis method are applied in this paper. The interviews, diaries, and all the materials provided by patients are used to reach the most detailed understanding of each case. It is also analyzed by different approaches like alternative medicine, history of science and religious science to induce to our discoveries.
3、 Conclusion
The influence by the knowledge of treatments on one person’s world view will deeply affect how they see and experience his life and world. Therefore the most crucial elements for the healing of cancer is the transformation and the expansion of one’s world view. | en_US |