Current situation analysis of traditional Chinese medicine as maintenance therapy for advanced non-small cell lung cancer
SHI Hong
LIU Jie
LIN Hongsheng
Abstract：Recently, maintenance therapy of traditional Chinese medicine ( TCM ) for advanced non-small cell lung cancer ( NSCLC) has been carried out in many places of China. This paper trimmed the theoretical foundation, main content and the current situation of maintenance therapy, and summed up the literature of this field related to TCM in recent years. We obtained a result that TCM could relief clinical symptoms, prolong the progression-free survival, and improve the quality of life of advanced NSCLC. Mean-while, there’s some insufficiency in these studies, such as inadequate sample, low quality, and etc. We look forward to more high-quality and normalized study.
Keywords：Non-small cell lung cancer(NSCLC)Traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)Maintenance therapy
Publication Date：2016-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：4( 372-375 )