In men they occur mainly in the abdomen, in women, mainly in the breasts. "Other medical works also refer, by a variety of names, to various cancers such as gastric, esophageal, intestinal and bone cancer. Their descriptions of the symptoms are almost identical to the observations of modern anatomical medicine.
其他的醫書也以症瘕、積聚、腸覃、骨瘤等名詞，稱呼胃癌、食道癌、腸癌、骨癌等各式各樣的惡性腫瘤，其症狀描述與近代解剖學上的觀察幾乎一樣。