Clinical Research on Chinese Medicine Intervention for Postoperative Recurrence and Metastasis of Breast Cancer
10.14148/j.issn.1672-0482.2015.0295
- VernacularTitle:中医药干预乳腺癌复发转移的临床研究
- Author:
Yu GU
1
;
Hai-Qing HUA
Author Information
1. 南京中医药大学附属医院
- Keywords:
Chinese medicine treatment;
postoperative breast cancer;
recurrence and metastasis
- From:
Journal of Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
2015;(3):295-297
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
ABSTRACT:OBJECTIVE To explore the influence of Chinese medicine intervention on recurrence and metastasis in postoper-ative patients with breast cancer.METHODS Totally 120 cases of female breast cancer meeting the requirement of the inclu-sive criteria were collected,the influencing factors of recurrence and metastasis,Chinese drug-taking situations and the related prognostic dates were recorded in detail and the disease free survival time was calculated.Subsequently,the influence of Chi-nese medicine on relapse and transfer time was observed by applying the method of retrospective analysis.RESULTS Among the 120 female cases,compared with the total recurrence and metastasis rate of the patients who persisted in taking Chinese medicine being 81.6%,with a 60-month median disease free survival and 45% five-year disease free survival rate,the total rate of those who did not continuously take Chinese drugs was 96%,with a 33-month median disease free survival and 20% five-year disease free survival rate,and the total rate of those who took no Chinese medicine was 100%,with a 16-month median disease free survival and 0% (none) five-year disease free survival rate.According to statistics,there were significant differ-ences between whether taking Chinese medicine or not and the disease free survival time,as well as between the duration of drug-taking and the disease free survival time (P < 0.05);In terms of patients in different stages,whether taking Chinese medicine or not of patients in both theⅡand ⅢA stage are correlated significantly with their disease free survival time(P <0.05),while no statistical significances were found in the ⅢC stage(P >0.05).CONCLUSION We can make a pre-judge-ment that the long-term use of Chinese medicine may be beneficial to prolong the disease free survival time.
