Comparative study of clinical effects of Yifei Decoction and chemothepy on elderly non-small-cell lung cancer patients in advanced stage

Objective To observe the clinical effects and safety of Traditional Chinese Medicine Yifei Decoction on treating elderly patients with non-small-cell lung cancer(NSCLC) in advanced stage.Methods 60 NSCLC patients were randomly divided into 2 groups: treatment group treated with Yifei Decoction and control group treated with chemotherapy with 30 patients in each group.Both groups were treated for 6 weeks.The data of each patient's clinical symptoms,life quality,tumor control rate,side-effect were recorded.Results The treatment group were better than the control group in the efficacy of the clinical symptoms and life quality improvement(P0.05).There were no signigicant differences in the tumor size control between 2 groups(P0.05).The side-effects in treated group was lower than those in control group(P0.01).Conclusion Yifei Decoction can improve the clinical efficacy and life quality of NSCLC patients and control tumor size,and it has lower toxicity and well tolerance and is worthy of further research.