The Relationship between Pathological Types and Syndromes of TCM in Non-small Cell Lung Cancer

Objective To explore the relationship between pathological types and syndromes of TCM in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Methods Based on the theory of Ba-Gang, Zang-Fu organs and Qi-Blood, making and filling in the observation form of syndromes of TCM in patients with NSCLC and analysed by SPSS 11.5 statistics software. Results Deficiency of Qi, Blood stasis, damp-phlegm and deficiency of Yin are main syndromes of TCM in adenocarcinoma and squamous carcinoma of NSCLC (114, 69 times;80, 54 times;43, 35 times;30, 31 times respectively). There are not significant difference between adenocarcinoma and squamous carcinoma on syndromes of TCM (P 0.05). Conclusion Deficiency of Qi, Blood stasis, Damp-phlegm and Deficiency of Yin are main syndromes of TCM in adenocarcinoma and squamous carcinoma. In Deficiency of Qi, lung-deficiency of Qi and spleen-deficiency of Qi are common syndromes of TCM. Appearing frequency of syndromes of TCM between adenocarcinoma and squamous carcinoma is similar.