| Cancer poses a severe threat to Chinese population health and constitutes a major public health challenge for national social development. The Chinese government places high priority on cancer prevention and control, having implemented multi-tiered prevention initiatives. Through primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention strategies, these efforts aim to reduce cancer incidence, progression rates, and mortality, while enhancing survival rates and quality of life for cancer patients. The implementation of broad-coverage, cost-effective preventive strategies has become critically imperative to reduce the cancer burden. In the recent years, there have been significant strides in cancer prevention, particularly marked by substantial advancements in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) applications among tertiary cancer prevention. TCM's emphasis on preventive prioritization and personalized therapeutics aligns synergistically with modern medical paradigms in preventive medicine, health promotion, and wellness management. However, challenges persist in advancing integrative m?edicine approaches for population-level cancer prevention, particularly within primary and secondary prevention frameworks. It is urgent to establish a sustainable collaborative network for integrative cancer prevention, construct a novel population-based prevention system, strengthen integrative medicine population cohorts and foundational research, and rigorously validate TCM's efficacy in primary/secondary cancer prevention through modern scientific methodologies. It would be beneficial to mitigate interdisciplinary cognitive disparities and standardize integrative cancer prevention in China. |
