OF ELECTROCHEMJCAL Therapy ON 211 CASES WITH MIDDLE AND LATE STAGE LUNG CANCER Xin Yu-Ling China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing (100029)

ABSTRACT The clinical efficacy obtained from 211 cases of middle and late stage Jung cancer treated by electrochemical therapy (ECT) were summarised. The responses are divided into CR, PR, NR, PD according to the international standard of four grades. The short term effectiveness~ within one year was: CR (29.4%) and PR (40.3%) which were assessed as the total effective rate being 69.7%. while NR (13.3%) and PD (17.1%) were assessed as ineffective. The efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) group was 54.3%; that of ECT group was 70.4%; while that of TCM combined with Western medicine group (ECT + TCM) was 84.3%. The efficacy of ECT + TCM group was superior to the former two groups (P<0.5). The 5 years long term effectiveness of ECT group was 31.0%, TCM group 15.7%, ECT + TCM group 40.0%. Clinical analysis showed that the effect of ECT + TCM group was the best. KEY WORDS Jung cancer, electrochemical therapy, traditional Chinese medicine.

Two hundred eleven patients of middle and late stage Jung cancer were treated from Oct. 1987 to Oct. 1991. Among them, 71 cases were treated by electrochemical therapy (ECT), 70 cases by traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), and the other 70 cases were treated by ECT + TCM. In order to discover the role of the ECT + TCM method in treatment of the Jung cancer, the therapeutic effectiveness of the three groups was reviewed.

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1.1 Clinical Data
Among the 211 cases, 159 cases were male, 52 cases were female. The ratio of male to female was 3:1. Age ranged 32 —. 78 with an average of 56. 119 cases were not ever treated with other therapy; the other 92 cases were treated by exploration thoracotomy (38 cases), chemotherapy (28 cases) and radiotherapy (26 cases), but these therapy were all ineffective.

The location of Jung cancer was that: In 131 cases the cancers were in right lung, among which 75 were in upper-right lobe and 56 in lower-right lobe. In 80 cases the cancers were in the left lung, among which 49 were in upper-left lobe and 31 in lower-left lobe. There were 156 patients of peripheral type, 55 cases of central type. The pathological type of these lung cancer was shown in table 1.

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