Treatment On Advanced Primary Hepatic Carcinoma Characterized By Traditional Chinese Medicine

(一) Meta-analysis of HCPT-based intervention therapy for primary hepatic carcinomaObjective: To evaluate the therapeutic efficacy of the HCPT-basedintervention therapy on tumor response, survival in patients with primaryhepatic carcinoma.Methods: searching all available studies that have been published or thoseunpublished from 1994 to 2005 in the world with regard to the HCPT-basedintervention therapy comparing with routine transcatheter arterychemoembolization (TACE). Evaluate strictly all the studies that have beensearched and adopt the studies according to selection and excludingcriteria. The meta-analysis is based on tumor response.Results: 15% relative increase was obtained in patients treated byHCPT-based intervention therapy compared with routine TACE. There issignificance between the two intervention therapies.Conclusions: HCPT-based intervention therapy is superior to routine TACE,which needs further high quality evidences although.(二) Survival analysis of 306 cases of patients with TNM IIIb/IV stageprimary hepatic carcinomaBackgrounds & Objective: Primary Hepatic Carcinoma(PHC) is commonworldwide and frequently fatal. It is one of the most common cancers andone of the leading causes of cancer death in China, which belongs to "GanJi (liver stagnation)" , "jaundice" , "Zheng Jia and Jiu (abdominalmass)" , etc. in literatures of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). As a...