title: Advances in TCM treatment for metastasis of tumors.
abstract: The above therapeutic results show that TCM drugs have excellent effects in counteracting the metastasis of tumors. They can produce a synergistic effect when used together with surgery, radio- and chemotherapy. In analyzing the relationship between the factors that affect the distant metastasis, the authors strongly recommend that the FDM-survival rate be used, i.e. the survival rate free from distant metastasis as suggested by Hong Minghuang et al in their article. An analysis based on FDM-survival rate in a duration of three or five years with the data treated with the Kaplan-Meier and/or Life Table would be rational and convincible.
authors.affiliation: Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai 200032.
authors.forename: Hongmei
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Niu
authors.forename: Jiaxiang
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000473:pathology; D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000473:pathology; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis / Q000188:drug therapy; D008517:Phytotherapy; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology
chemical_list: D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal