title: Dialectic classification of syndrome diagnosis in traditional Chinese medicine used as new criterion for evaluating prognosis of patients with cervical cancer.
abstract: 254 patients with cervical cancer were treated by radiotherapy from Jan 1979 to Dec 1984. All the patients were followed up at least for more than 3 years, of them 180 for over 5 years. According to various symptoms, picture of the tongue and pulse condition, the disease was classified into 4 types, namely: 1) deficiency of liver-yin and kidney-yin, 2) deficiency of splenic qi, 3) internal retention of damp-heat, and 4) stagnation of qi and blood or stagnation of liver qi. The survival rate of the various types was quite different. The patients of type 4 had the worst prognosis. The prognosis of patients with type 1 was significantly better than that of patients with type 4. The difference was of statistical significance (P less than 0.01).
authors.affiliation: Department of Oncology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical University, Wuhan.
authors.forename: S Y
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: L A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: J X
authors.initials: JX
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Z K
authors.initials: ZK
authors.lastname: Qian
authors.forename: Y W
authors.initials: YW
authors.lastname: Peng
mesh_terms: D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000401:mortality* / Q000532:radiotherapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional; D011379:Prognosis; D015996:Survival Rate; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality* / Q000532:radiotherapy; D016711:Yang Deficiency / Q000401:mortality / Q000532:radiotherapy; D016710:Yin Deficiency / Q000401:mortality / Q000532:radiotherapy