Traditional Chinese medicine in cancer care: a review of controlled clinical studies published in chinese.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has been widely applied for cancer care in China. There have been a large number of controlled clinical studies published in Chinese literature, yet no systematic searching and analysis has been done. This study summarizes the current evidence of controlled clinical studies of TCM for cancer.

Methods

We searched all the controlled clinical studies of TCM therapies for all kinds of cancers published in Chinese in four main Chinese electronic databases from their inception to November 2011. We bibliometrically analyzed the included studies and assessed the reporting quality.

Results

A total of 2964 reports (involving 253,434 cancer patients) including 2385 randomized controlled trials and 579 non-randomized controlled studie

SUBMITTER: Li X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3616129 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature