Combination of Chinese and Western medicine in treatment of advanced lung cancer 20 cases.docVIP

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 2 Combination of Chinese and Western medicine in treatment of advanced lung cancer 20 cases [Abstract] Objective advanced lung disease through the machine, card type, analysis of the law governing the administration to explore the combination of Chinese and Western medicine in treatment of advanced lung cancer approach. Methods simple Chinese and Western medicine combined with Western medicine chemotherapy treatment for all 20 cases of comparison, treatment observation. The results of combination therapy group compared with the control group, Western medicine alone in the quality of life, survival rate, survival on the number of cases the difference was significant. Conclusions Treatment of advanced lung cancer in Chinese and Western Medicine Western medicine is superior to simple treatment. [Keywords:] Chinese and Western medicine combined with advanced lung cancer treatment efficacy of April 2003 ~ June 2007, our hospital were treated in 40 patients with advanced lung cancer, I am being introduced purely Western and Chinese and Western medicine combined with chemotherapy treatment for all 20 cases of controlled observation, a better clinical efficacy, these are as follows. 1 Data and methods 1.1 General Information of this group of 40 patients, 28 males and 12 females; aged 32 to 74 years, mean 61 years of age; clinical symptoms: cough, hemoptysis, chest pain, fever, weight loss, chest tightness, shortness of breath, difficulty breathing. All 40 cases of selected patients were diagnosed by chest CT and pathology, histological classification: adenocarcinoma in 18 cases, accounting for 45%; squamous cell carcinoma 12 cases, accounting for 30%; non-small cell type, small cell type, squamous carcinoma in 10 cases, accounting for 25%. Clinical staging based on the International Union Against Cancer (I-VCC) of the TNM staging [1] as Ⅲ b or Ⅳ stage, all for advanced lung cancer; the metastatic sites in 20 patients with pleural effusion, p