A Meta-analysis of effectiveness of traditional Chinese medicine methods combined with chemotherapy/radiotherapy in pancreatic cancer treatment
Objective To assess the effectiveness of traditional Chinese medicine methods combined with chemotherapy/radiotherapy in pancreatic cancer treatment. Methods Such databases as PubMed, Cochrane Library, EMbase, CBM, CNKI and WanFang Data were searched from the date of their establishment to September, 2016 in order to collect the randomized controlled trials (RCTs). Results 8 RCT, and a total of 617 cases of patients. Meta-analysis showed that the combined treatment group complete remission rate with chemotherapy alone group was not significant. In an efficient analysis of indicators of disease partial response rate and disease, were found statistically significant differences between the two groups, traditional Chinese medicine combined radiotherapy and chemotherapy showed good advantage, but there tend to overestimate the combined effect of combined treatment of traditional Chinese medicine situation effects. Conclusion Chinese herbs combined with chemotherapy and simple method for the treatment of pancreatic cancer chemotherapy effect with certain advantages.
pancreatic cancertraditional Chinese medicinechemotherapyradiotherapyrandomized controlled trialMeta-analysis
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