Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has some unique advantages in the prevention and treatment of cancer. Due to different ideas and mechanism of between TCM and biomedicine in the prevention and treatment of cancer, the clinial effect evaluation approches of biomedicine could not be used as a beneficial method to scientifically evaluate the effects of TCM. From three angles, this article analyzes the key issues regardsing the evaluation methods of TCM as an adjuvant therapy of cancer. It draws lessons from the idea of quality-adjusted survival (QAS), proposes Two-in-One (TIO) method to evaluate the effects of TCM as adjuvant therapy of cancer, which reflects the combined value of the individual patient dynamic information and provides methodological support for the effect evaluation of TCM.
Citation: ZHAI Jingbo,REN Ming,CAO Hongbo,WANG Hui,LIU Chunxiang,LIU Zhi,SHANG Hongcai. Two-in-One for Evaluation of Traditional Chinese Medicine as Adjuvant Therapy of Cancer: An New Method. Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2013, 13(11): 1280-1282. doi: 10.7507/1672-2531.20130219 Copy