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. 2024 Jun;38(6):2707-2723.
doi: 10.1002/ptr.8155. Epub 2024 Mar 22.

Traditional Chinese medicine for gastric cancer: An evidence mapping

Zelei Dai  1 , Chenfeng Tan  1 , Jun Wang  1 , Qin Wang  2 , Ying Wang  3 , Ying He  4 , Yalan Peng  5 , Mingyou Gao  6 , Yonggang Zhang  2   7 , Lei Liu  1 , Ningying Song  8 , Nian Li  3
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Traditional Chinese medicine for gastric cancer: An evidence mapping

Zelei Dai et al. Phytother Res. 2024 Jun.

Abstract

As a complementary and alternative therapy, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has been playing a significant role in gastric cancer treatment. Data from individual systematic reviews have not been comprehensively summarized, and the relationship between certain interventions and outcomes are ill-defined. This study aimed to analyze the advantages of TCM interventions for gastric cancer by the method of evidence mapping. We searched PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, China National Knowledge Infrastructure, Chinese Scientific Journals Database, and Wanfang Database for systematic reviews of TCM treating gastric cancer up to December 31, 2023. We used Excel, Endnote 20, and Python software for the analysis of incorporated studies. We assessed the quality of included SRs by AMSTAR-2 and performed evidence mapping including 89 SRs, 1648 RCTs and 122,902 patients, identifying 47 types of interventions and 39 types of outcomes. From a visual overview, we displayed that most SRs reported beneficial effects in improving short- and long-term survival, myelosuppression, and immune function, even though the quality of evidence was generally low. The benefits of Brucea javanica Oil Emulsion Injection, ShenQiFuZheng Injection, XiaoAiPing, Astragalus-Containing TCM and Guben Xiaoji Therapy were found the most solid in corresponding aspects. Our findings suggest that although more rigorous clinical trials and SRs are needed to identify the precise effectiveness, integrating such evidence into clinical care of gastric cancer is expected to be beneficial.

Keywords: efficacy; evidence mapping; gastric cancer; safety; systematic review; traditional Chinese medicine.

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