Advances of traditional Chinese medicine in prevention and treatment of recurrence and metastasis of liver cancer / 临床肝胆病杂志

ABSTRACT

Great achievements have been made in traditional Chinese medicine in the prevention and treatment of liver cancer in recent years. Studies have shown that traditional Chinese medicine can reduce the recurrence and metastasis of liver cancer and prolong the survival time of patients by inhibiting cell proliferation, inducing cell apoptosis, inhibiting cell migration and invasion, inhibiting angiogenesis, regulating immunity, and reversing drug resistance. This article reviews the clinical and basic studies on the effect of traditional Chinese medicine in the prevention and treatment of recurrence and metastasis of liver cancer in the recent 10 years, and it is believed that traditional Chinese medicine has the advantages of low toxicity, multiple targets, and multiple pathways in the prevention and treatment of recurrence and metastasis of liver cancer. Future research should focus on how to screen out the effective constituents for liver cancer, how to understand the complete mechanism of action of traditional Chinese medicine, whether the consistency in the efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine between in vivo and in vitro studies can be guaranteed, and whether there is a difference in the role of investigational drugs between populations from different regions in multicenter clinical studies.