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ive] To observe the therapeutic effects of Xiaoji Decoction (XD) in treating intermed iate and late stages of lung cancer. [ Methods] One hundred and twelve patients with lung cancer in stage ? -? were randomly allocated to Group A, Group B and Group C. Group A ( n = 49) was treated with XD alone, Group B ( n = 33 ) was treated with various chemotherapeutic regimens according to the histo-logical types of lung cancer: CAP regimen for lung squamous carcinoma, EP regimen for lung adenocarci-noma and CE regimen for small cell carcinoma of lung, In Group C, 30 patients were treated with chemo therapy combined with XD. Symptomatic relief, life quality, tumor size, distant metastasis, sub-types of T lymphocytes, survival period and side effects in the three groups were evaluated after one course of treatment. [Results] The effects of XD on tumor size were evaluated by the effective rate and stabilized rate. They were 4.08%and 53.06%, 21.21% and 48.48%, and 46.67%and 76.67%in Group A, Group B and Group C respectively. The differences between Group A and Group B were significant ( P
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Objective To investigate the objectivity and comprehensiveness of Response Evaluation Criteria of Traditional Chinese Medicine for Solid Tumor(REC-TCM-ST) in the therapeutic effect evaluation of Chinese medicine for late non-small-cell lung cancer(NSCLC).Methods A retrospective study was carried out in 104 NSCLC patients in the stages of Ⅲ~Ⅳ.Of 104 patients,53 received traditional Chinese medicine(TCM group),and 51 received western medicine(WM group).The therapeutic effect in the two groups was evaluated with both REC-TCM-ST and Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumor(RECIST).Results The REC-TCM-ST evaluation results showed that the effective rate on relieving tumor mass in TCM group was lower than that in WM group(P0.05);the symptom of weakness was much relieved,and effect on Karnofsky score was good in TCM group as compared with that in WM group(P0.05).As for the survival patients,TCM group had a median survival period of(8.0?1.2) months,and survival rates for half a year,one year and two years were 60.38%,24.53% and 3.77% respectively;WM group had a median survival period of(5.9?0.4) months,and survival rates for half a year,one year and two years were 41.18%,15.69% and 1.96% respectively.The RECIST evaluation results showed that the total effective rate and the total stable rate were 9.62% and 72.12% respectively,while were 34.62% and 84.62% respectively when evaluated with REC-TCM-ST,the difference being significant(P