Background: Increased morbidity with high mortality among cancer patients after years of aggressive research and fighting lead people question the philosophy behind current cancer treatment. The problems with conventional cancer therapies is the ignorance of human immune functions; treat symptoms but not the source, and damaging immune functions further with aggressive and toxic treatments. In response to these problems of failure to treat cancer effectively, I created a special form of medical Qigong (Taiji Five-Element Qigong), started helping cancer patients in 1990, and achieved some significant results. I was appointed the director of the Qigong Anti-Cancer Research project by the Chinese Society of Qigong Science in 1993, since then I have committed myself to clinical research of Qigong anti-cancer therapy full-time. About 5,000 patients with middle or later stage cancer, who were firmly believed without medical value by many tumor hospitals, were accepted in my Qigong training center. About 90% of these patients achieved significant improvement in their health and cancer recovery, and half of them became cancer-free in the last 5 to 8 years.

Basic Methods: Key elements on Qigong anti-cancer therapy include the following step:: (1) Attitude change: Turn traditional searching help outside into searching help inside. It is the immune function and self-healing power that cure cancer eventually! While fear-of-cancer effect is the real incurable disease, since it keeps patient stressed and lowers their immune functions. Instead, consider cancer part of the body, communicate with it by consciousness power, and eliminate the source leading to cancer in the first place. (2) Intensive Qigong practice: empty mind without desire, forget about disease, trouble, environment and self; rapidly stimulate immune functions and body potential by intensive Qi cultivation. (3) Energetic Fasting (Bigu): Cut the supply for tumors so as to inhibit the rapid growth of cancer; and help to strengthen immune function effectively (Need under the close supervision of an experienced Qigong healer). (4) Shatter Tumor by Strong Qi: Focus of mind power and strong Qi can shatter. (5) Collective Qi Cultivation and Adjustment: Group practice of Five-Element Qigong to form a strong Qi field and to strengthen the inhibitory effect of the Qi cultivation.

Results: In our special anti-cancer intensive medical Qigong training class, we focus on the macro and holistic adjustment, and emphasize rapid increase students' immune functions, self-healing and self-regeneration capabilities, so as to achieve the dramatic change in the internal environment that produced cancer at the first place. When students came to the anti-cancer intensive training, they usually stopped chemotherapy or radiotherapy, and have the physical checkups before and after the class at the same hospital. A majority of students reported a significant reduction in the size of their tumor(s), and the short-term effective rate was more than 90% in all our anti-cancer classes (Reduction of tumor size at 50% or more is considered effective). Many students diagnosed with a late-stage 'incurable' cancer, or even turned away from the hospitals, have recovered and remained cancer free for 7-8 years.
Discussion: Both clinic results and basic science research confirmed the effectiveness of the Five-Element Qigong anti-cancer therapy. The advantages of such a therapy may include: Safe and Reliable: no misdiagnosis, nor adverse side effect; So it's an idea cancer self-recovery method; recovered patients are not only cancer-free, but many other chronic diseases disappear at the same time, really reach the goal of health and recovery; Rapid Detoxification: Qigong therapy help cancer patients rapidly detoxify from those side effects and really improve their quality of life. This method open a new direction of cancer therapy and medicine in general: Self-healing and drug-free. We can overcome cancer without medication!

Theory and Practice of Comprehensive Qigong Anti-Cancer Therapy