榄香烯注射液治疗恶性胸腹腔积液述评

Review of Elemene Injection in Treating Malignant Pleural Effusions and Ascites

恶性胸腹腔积液是恶性肿瘤的常见并发症,也是临床治疗中的难点。榄香烯注射液是以从姜科植物温郁金(莪术)中提取的β-榄香烯为主要成分的抗肿瘤药物,对多种实体瘤具有抑制增殖和诱导凋亡作用,具有广谱抗肿瘤作用。现将我国学者应用榄香烯注射液治疗恶性胸腹腔积液的临床经验述评如下。

Malignant pleural effusions and ascites are common complications in various cancers, which are difficulties in clinical treatment. Elemene injection, with the main ingredient of β-elemene, extracted from Chinese herbal medicine Curcumae Rhizoma, has broad-spectrum antitumor activity by inhibiting proliferation and inducing apoptosis in several types of solid tumor cells. This article reviewed the clinical experience of Chinese scholars in treating malignant pleural effusions and ascites with elemene injection.