title: The effects of Chinese drugs for supporting healthy energy and removing blood stasis on postoperative metastasis of gastric carcinoma and ornithine decarboxylase.
abstract: 32 postoperative cases of gastric carcinoma were treated by traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) drugs for supporting healthy energy and removing blood stasis, and their therapeutic results were compared with those in the control group treated by western medicine. After 6 months of treatment, in the TCM group, the rate of metastatic recurrence was significantly reduced, and the level of ornithine decarboxylase was also markedly lowered. Therefore, it is considered that the action of anti-metastatic recurrence of TCM drugs in postoperative cases of gastric carcinoma is probably related to the lowered activity of ornithine decarboxylase.
authors.affiliation: Medical School of Yangzhou University, Yangzhou.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ping
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000971:Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D002945:Cisplatin / Q000008:administration & dosage; D004317:Doxorubicin / Q000008:administration & dosage; D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D005260:Female; D005472:Fluorouracil / Q000008:administration & dosage; D005743:Gastrectomy; D005753:Gastric Mucosa / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000517:prevention & control*; D009955:Ornithine Decarboxylase / Q000378:metabolism*; D011184:Postoperative Period; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery
chemical_list: D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal; D004317:Doxorubicin; D009955:Ornithine Decarboxylase; D002945:Cisplatin; D005472:Fluorouracil