Efficacy Study of Integrated TCM Combined With Chemotherapy in Postoperative NSCLC Patients

Summary

The investigators performed a multi-center, randomized, controlled, double-blind, prospective study on evaluating effect of chemotherapy combined with or without integrated TCM on quality of life (QOL) of postoperative Non-small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) patients. The investigators plan to involve 600 cases for observation in 3 years (300 cases for each group), expecting that QOL of postoperative NSCLC patients can be improved by integrated TCM combined with chemotherapy compared to that by chemotherapy alone.

Timeline

Start

2011-11

Primary completion

2015-03

Completion

2015-03

Publications

• Wang Y, Jiao L, Chen Z, Xu J, Che J, Huang H, Zhang L, Shen X, Yang Y, Zhao T, Zhang J, Zhou D, Wang Q, Yao J, Yang W, Sun C, Li J, Bi L, Ding R, Goodfellow I, Gong Y, Xu L. Adjuvant Chemotherapy with Traditional Chinese Herbal Granules Versus Placebo in Resected Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: Updated Survival Analysis of a Multicenter, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial. Integr Cancer Ther. 2026 Jan-Dec;25:15347354251409081. doi: 10.1177/15347354251409081. Epub 2026 Jan 27.
• Wang Q, Jiao L, Wang S, Chen P, Bi L, Zhou D, Yao J, Li J, Wang L, Chen Z, Jia Y, Zhang Z, Shen W, Zhu W, Xu J, Gao Y, Xu L, Gong Y. Adjuvant Chemotherapy with Chinese Herbal Medicine Formulas Versus Placebo in Patients with Lung Adenocarcinoma after Radical Surgery: a Multicenter, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial. Biol Proced Online. 2020 Mar 1;22:5. doi: 10.1186/s12575-020-00117-5. eCollection 2020.
• Xu L, Li H, Xu Z, Wang Z, Liu L, Tian J, Sun J, Zhou L, Yao Y, Jiao L, Su W, Guo H, Chen P, Liu J. 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 Complement Altern Med. 2012 Aug 1;12:112. doi: 10.1186/1472-6882-12-112.

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