Relevance Research between Traditional Chinese Medicine Syndromes and Chemotherapy and Targeted Therapy on Primary Lung Cancer / 世界科学技术-中医药现代化

ABSTRACT

This article was aimed to study the relevance between traditional Chinese medicine ( TCM ) syndromes and the treatment of chemotherapy and targeted therapy , in order to provide theoretical support for TCM syndromes of lung cancer in the clinical application . Uniform TCM syndromes questionnaire was used in the TCM syndrome differentiation among lung cancer patients from the Oncology Department of Longhua Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and TCM Department of Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital. The analysis was made on correlation between distribution rules of TCM syndromes and chemotherapy and targeted therapy . The results showed that among primary lung cancer patients , the most TCM syndromes were syndrome of lung-yin deficiency , lung-q i deficiency , blood stasis in lung collaterals , spleen-q i deficiency , lung-yin deficiency with fire excess . There were certain correlation in TCM syndromes and different TCM therapeutic methods , in which targeted therapy had great significant effect on syndrome of lung-yin deficiency ( P < 0 . 05 ) , after targeted therapy syndrome of lung-yin deficiency increased obviously . It was concluded that there were some regulations in TCM syndromes of lung cancer which take syndrome of lung-yin deficiency, lung-qi deficiency, blood stasis in lung collaterals, spleen-qi deficiency, lung-yin deficiency with fire excess. There were certain correlation in TCM syndromes and different TCM therapeutic methods , after targeted therapy syndrome of lung-yin deficiency increased obviously .