Chinese herbal medicine for side effects of transarterial chemoembolization in liver cancer patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis

CONCLUSION: CHM is effective in prolonging life expectancy, improving quality of life, and reducing side effects of TACE in the treatment of liver cancer. However, due to the undesirable quality of the included RCTs and the substantial heterogeneity, most of the outcome measure indexes were failed to be meta-analyzed, and thus the significance of this review for clinical practice was limited.PMID:23257126 | DOI:10.3736/jcim20121204
Source: Zhong xi yi jie he xue bao : Journal of Chinese Integrative Medicine. - Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Source Type: research