Clinical observation on the combined treatment of 57 cases of non-small cell lung cancer using argon-helium cryosurgery and Chinese herbal medicine.

Objective: To observe the clinical effect of the combined therapy using argon-helium cryosurgery (Ar-He knife) and Chinese herbal medicine in treating non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

Methods: Fifty-seven patients of NSCLC were treated with the combined therapy and observed.

Results: The treatment was successfully completed in all patients with mild adverse reactions.

[Risk factors of traditional Chinese medical syndromes in moderate and advanced lung cancer patients with concurrent fungal pneumonia].

Objective: To analyze the relationship between traditional Chinese medical syndromes and fungal pneumonia for moderate and advanced lung cancer patients.

Methods: We retrospected 115 moderate and advanced lung cancer patients with different syndromes in traditional Chinese medicine (qi deficiency, yin deficiency, blood deficiency, yang deficiency, blood stasis, phlegm dampness, phlegm heat, damp heat, cold dampness, qi stagnation, heat toxin), who had the concurrent fungal pneumonia, and used regression analysis method to analyze the data.

Results: When the patients had the phlegm heat syndrome, they got a significantly higher risk of having fungal pneumonia (P < 0.