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Traditional Chinese Medicine Preparation Combined Therapy May Improve Chemotherapy Efficacy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Jiaming WuYun LiuCantu FangLixian ZhaoLi-Zhu LinLiming Lu
Published in: Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM (2019)
Traditional Chinese medicine preparation combined with chemotherapy may improve objective response rates and disease control rates more than chemotherapy alone. The evidence that combined traditional Chinese medicine preparation can reduce the side effects of chemotherapy is insufficient. More rigorous randomized controlled trials are needed to confirm these conclusions.
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