Effects of Yiqi Yangyin Jiedu Fang on Serum Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor and Immunologic Function in the Patient of Lung Cancer / 中医杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective:To observe effects of Yiqi Yangyin Jiedu Fang on serum vascular endothelial growth factor(VEGF) and Immunologic function in the patient of non-small cell lung cancer(NSCLC).Methods:Fifty-one cases of NSCLC were randomly divided into a Chinese medicine group,a chemotherapy group and a chemotherapy plus Chinese medicine group.The therapeutic effect and changes of clinical symptoms,physical strength,immunologic indexes and serum VEGF before and after treatment were investigated in all groups.Results:Tumor stable rate in Chinese medicine group and chemotherapy plus Chinese medicine group after treatment was higher than that in chemotherapy group with no significant difference,but improvement of clinical symptoms and physical strength in Chinese medicine group and chemotherapy plus Chinese medicine group after treatment was significantly superior to that in chemotherapy group(both P