title: Analysis of clinical syndromes in 47 patients with pancreatic cancer at late stage.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To analyze the law governing the distribution of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) syndromes of pancreatic cancer.
  
  
  METHODS
  The authors used retrospective study to statistically analyze TCM syndromes of patients, separated complex syndromes and calculated the frequency of appearance of single syndromes.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The patients mainly suffered from 4 syndromes: blood stasis syndrome, qi stagnation syndrome, qi (yang) deficiency syndrome, and phlegm dampness syndrome. The distribution of syndromes is rarely related to sex, age and morbid site of patients.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Owing to complicated distribution of its syndromes, pancreatic cancer should be diagnosed and treated according to its characteristics of deficiency in origin and excess in superficiality.
authors: TCM Tumor Department, Putuo Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai 200062, China.
authors: Liang
authors: L
authors: Fang
authors: Jue
authors: J
authors: Sun
authors: Qi
authors: Q
authors: Li
authors: Chao-Heng
authors: CH
authors: Li
authors: Zhong-Ze
authors: ZZ
authors: Fan
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional / Q000379:methods*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012189:Retrospective Studies