Multi-center randomized double-blind controlled clinical study of chemotherapy combined with or without traditional Chinese medicine on quality of life of postoperative non-small cell lung cancer patients

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Xu, Ling ^a   Li, HeGen ^a   Xu, ZhenYe ^a   Wang, ZhongQi ^a   Liu, LingShuang ^a   Tian, JianHui ^a   Sun, JianLi ^a   Zhou, Lei ^a   Yao, YiLin ^a   Jiao, LiJing ^a   Su, Wan ^a   Guo, HuiRu ^a   Chen, PeiQi ^a   Liu, JiaXiang ^a  

^a SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHINESE DRUG; CISPLATIN; NAVELBINE; PLACEBO;

ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHINA; CHINESE MEDICINE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG SAFETY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84864404182     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6882-12-112     Document Type: Article

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