Clinical study on integrative medicine for preventing and treating post-transcatheter arterial chemoembolization / 中国中西医结合杂志

ABSTRACT

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To observe the effects of ginsenosides (GS) and low dose glucocorticoid for preventing and treating the post-transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE) syndrome.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>Adopting randomized, double blinded, controlled method, 80 patients with primary liver cancer were divided into 4 groups, placebo group, dexamethasone (Dex) group, Ginsenosides (GS) group, and Dex combined with GS group to observe the clinical effect of the patients after TACE.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>Dex combined with GS could markedly lower the occurrence of nausea, vomiting, fever and pain, and the median time of symptoms persistence, also alleviate the bone marrow inhibition of chemotherapy.</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>Dex combined with GS could effectively prevent and treat TACE syndrome.</p>