中医药治疗晚期肺癌化疗减毒增效作用的研究进展

Research Review on the Toxicity Reducing and Efficacy Enhancing Function of Chinese Medicine Combined with Chemotherapy in Treating Advanced Lung Cancer

肺癌是当今世界上最常见的恶性肿瘤之一,在全国城市居民病死率中居首。由于肺癌临床症状出现较晚,手术根治难度较大,因此,临床普遍应用化疗控制治疗。但其在抑制和杀伤肿瘤细胞的同时也杀伤正常机体细胞,对患者有多系统的、不同程度的不良反应。中医药配合化疗往往能起到良好的减毒增效作用,笔者对此进行了综述,以期能在临床中得到更广泛的应用。

Lung cancer is one of the most commonly occured malignant tumors in the modern world. Its mortality rate occupies first place in disease mortalities of national urban residents in China. Due to the lung cancer＇s late appearance of clinical symptoms and the great difficulty of radical cure by the surgery,the clinical treatment universally uses the chemotherapy to control the disease advancement. However,the use of chemotherapy can restrain and kill the tumor cells followed by the killing of normal organism cells. It causes toxicity and side effects in multiple systems with different degrees. Chinese medicine combined with chemotherapy can often play a favorable part in toxicity reducing and efficacy enhancing. The author has reviewed above situation in order to get a wider range of this kind of therapy in clinical application.