The Effectiveness of Liver-soothing and Spleen-strengthening Traditional Chinese Medicine Combined with Intra-arterial Infusion of Chemical Medicine for Advanced Primary Hepatocellular Cancer Patients / 中国中医药信息杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To observe the effectiveness of liver-soothing and spleen-strengthening traditional Chinese medicine combined with intra-arterial infusion of chemical medicine for advanced primary hepatocellular cancer patients.Methods One hundred and twenty primary hepatocellular cancer patients were randomly assigned to treatment group(60 patients) and control group(60 patients).The treatment group was treated by traditional Chinese medicine combined with intra-arterial infusion of chemical medicine,while only intra-arterial chemical medicine was applied to the control group.The intra-arterial chemical medicine was applied every four weeks.Each group received at least two courses of treatment.Aspects such as treatment effectiveness,quality of life,immune function and the condition of blood coagulation were observed.Results Clinical stable rate of the treatment group was 80.8%,higher than the control group obviously(P