The Preliminary Research Of Standard For Efficacy Assessment Of Traditional Chinese Medicine In Treating Elderly Patient With Lung Cancer

Objective: Through the quantitatively analysis of treatment efficacy of elderly patients with lung cancer, to identify the standard for efficacy assessment of Traditional Chinese Medicine in treating elderly patient with lung cancer.Methods: By retrospective study, the self-made Chinese medicine tumor efficacy assessment Table, select the patients with complete information over the age of 70 died of lung cancer from January 1, 2004 to September 30, 2007 in Affiliated Hospital of Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine oncology 38 cases , use of SPSS10.0 and Excel software for statistical analysis.Results: The overall median survival time of lung cancer patients is 10.5 months, while the median survival time is four months during the treatment in our hospital. Survival time and reducing of the symptoms were close correlation, r=0.498, P=0.01, and they have a significant difference. Patients with high scores symptoms, suggesting poor prognosis, P=0.004, Exp(B) =1.355. And many patients with lung cancer were accumulated to their heart function (44.7%).Conclusion: For the treatment of elderly cancer patients, we should not blindly pursue the tumor response rate, but the stabilization of symptoms and the patient's general condition, without any functional loss.