The randomized controlled trial (RCT) as applied to medicine started in the mid last century(1) and is now deemed as the most rigorous scientific method for evaluating the clinical effectiveness of medical interve...The randomized controlled trial (RCT) as applied to medicine started in the mid last century(1) and is now deemed as the most rigorous scientific method for evaluating the clinical effectiveness of medical interventions. The earliest RCTs in Chinese medicine (CM) appeared in the early 1980s. In the past 30 years, RCT was seen to have gradually infiltrated into and have been accepted reluctantly by CM.展开更多
The patients, who cannot endure the chemotherapy anymore, or internal disease or present drug resistance, normally use CM for improving their physical conditions and inhibiting tumor. CM has got excellent reputation b...The patients, who cannot endure the chemotherapy anymore, or internal disease or present drug resistance, normally use CM for improving their physical conditions and inhibiting tumor. CM has got excellent reputation because of the effects. Nonetheless, few clinical articles of CM to treat cancer are published on major international journals up to now.展开更多
Chinese medicine(CM) has several thousands of years of history and has made a great contribution to human health and disease prevention in the world.Since there are so many differences between CM and Western medici...Chinese medicine(CM) has several thousands of years of history and has made a great contribution to human health and disease prevention in the world.Since there are so many differences between CM and Western medicine (WM) on their theory and methods indisease diagnosis and treatment, how to evaluate the clinical effects exactly and correctly in clinical practice becomes one bottleneck problem in CM.展开更多
文摘The randomized controlled trial (RCT) as applied to medicine started in the mid last century(1) and is now deemed as the most rigorous scientific method for evaluating the clinical effectiveness of medical interventions. The earliest RCTs in Chinese medicine (CM) appeared in the early 1980s. In the past 30 years, RCT was seen to have gradually infiltrated into and have been accepted reluctantly by CM.
文摘The patients, who cannot endure the chemotherapy anymore, or internal disease or present drug resistance, normally use CM for improving their physical conditions and inhibiting tumor. CM has got excellent reputation because of the effects. Nonetheless, few clinical articles of CM to treat cancer are published on major international journals up to now.
文摘Chinese medicine(CM) has several thousands of years of history and has made a great contribution to human health and disease prevention in the world.Since there are so many differences between CM and Western medicine (WM) on their theory and methods indisease diagnosis and treatment, how to evaluate the clinical effects exactly and correctly in clinical practice becomes one bottleneck problem in CM.