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Conditions
Brief summary
To Establish an outpatient platform for the integration of Chinese and Western medicine to treat cancer.Both TCM and modern medicine doctors care a cancer patient , who is based on a common language from patient’s chief complaints and a definite diagnosis provided by an international ICD-9 code, to provide Chinese-Western medical treatment plans. Data were collected from different symptoms of clinical scales with Life Scale efficacy of the enrolled patients.
Interventions
Cancer patients are diagnosed by Western medicine doctors for pathology report, cancer-related catastrophic illness from health insurance information, and International Classification of Diseases 9th code (ICD-9 code). Patients use western medicine which includes Tamoxifen (Tam), Anastrozole (AI), Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH), Letrozole separately, Tam combined with AI, or others regardless of cancer stage (stage 0, 1, 2, 3, 4). At the same time, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) doct
Cancer patients are diagnosed by Western medicine doctors for pathology report, cancer-related catastrophic illness from health insurance information, and International Classification of Diseases 9th code (ICD-9 code). Patients use western medicine which includes Tamoxifen (Tam), Anastrozole (AI), Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH), Letrozole separately, Tam combined with AI, or others regardless of cancer stage (stage 0, 1, 2, 3, 4). At the same time, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) doctors diagnose and treat patients with traditional Chinese medicine (Bian-Zheng-lun-zhi) based on their chief complaiants, such as insomnia, fatigue, nausea, vomiting, and pain to relieve patients' symptoms. Patients will return to clinics as schedule at 1,6, and 12 months and blood tests for female-related hormone which is Estradiol (E2) and Follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) will be performed. We also apply quality of life questionnaire to evaluate the change of quality of life in these patients. This study will evaluate the clinical efficacy of Chinese-Western medical treatment plans for cancer patients for 1 year.
Sponsors
Committee on Chinese Medicine and Pharmacy
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
20 Years to 80 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
From 2012 in May to 2012 in December, the Taipei Veterans General Hospital in the treatment of cancer patients, regardless of what kind of cancer, regardless of number of installments (stage 0, 1, 2, 3, 4), the age of twenty to eighty years old, take the initiative to the integration of cancer of Chinese and Western medical outpatient or to the TCM special clinic for cancer, requires the use of traditional Chinese medicine in patients.
Exclusion criteria
Pregnant women, chronic liver disease (Bilirubin> 2 mg / dl), chronic kidney disease (Creatinine> 2 mg / dl), acute myocardial infarction patients, patients with the device pacemaker , non-cancer patients, terminal cancer combined heart and lung failure patients, postoperative psychiatric diagnoses were depression patients and cases do not want to sign a consent form.
Outcome results
None listed