The application of traditional Chinese medicine synthetic effect criteria in the late stage lung cancer

Objective To inspect the correlation of synthetic effect criteria to sensitivity,reliability of late stage lung cancer curative effect verdict and median survival time. Method Using size change of tumor,symptom change related to tumor,Karnofsky score,body weight etc.as synthetic effect criteria and instituting clinical synthetic effect criteria,to assess the curative effect of late stage lung cancer patients who received different treatment in department of tumor of xiyuan hospital between March,1997 and March,2000, to analysis medium survival time, and being compared with RR of tumor.Result 52 patients entered this experiment, in which 42 patients were assessable (follow up),13 patients were effective (30.95% ),17 were patients stable(40.48% ),12 patients deteriorated (28.57% ).The result of tumor objective remission rate: CR is 0,PR is 16.67% (7 patients),NC is 64.29% (27 patients) and PD is 19.05% (8 patients).There was apparent difference between two effect criteria(P< 0.05).The mean survival time of this group is (9.3± 1.6)months,median survival time is 10.5 months(2～ 28months),survival rate of one year is 33.33% (14 patients).In the patients who live longer than median survival time, most of them survive associated with tumor existence who are in NC of tumor objective remission rate, but also in the effective column of synthetic effect criteria. Compared with tumor objective remission rate,the synthetic effect criteria have more apparent correlation to survival time. Conclusion In the assessment of late stage lung cancer,synthetic effect criteria has better sensitivity and reliability,and emphasize survival quality,at same time it reflect the reaction of tumor and host to treatment,it reflect prognosis of tumor preferably and have better correlation to the survival time. It can be used as clinical effect criteria of late stag lung cancer after further consummation.