[Effects of fuzheng jianpi decoction combined chemotherapy on the quality of life and the survival time of children with solid tumor].

Objective: To study the effects of Fuzheng Jianpi Decoction (FJD) combined chemotherapy on the quality of life (QOL) and the survival time of children with solid tumor.

Methods: Recruited were 167 solid tumor children patients at Department of Tumor, Beijing Children's Hospital from Jan. 2005 to Jan.

[Treatment of vomiting in children patients with solid tumor by hewei zhiou recipe combined ondansetron hydrochloride].

Objective: To observe the therapeutic efficacy of Hewei Zhiou Recipe (HZR) combined ondansetron hydrochloride (OH) in treating vomiting in children patients with solid tumor.

Methods: Eighty children patients with solid tumor at the Department of Tumor, Beijing Children's Hospital from January 2007 to January 2010 were randomly assigned to the treatment group and the control group by the random digit table method, 40 in each group. OH 4 mg was intravenously dripped to patients in the control group.

Effect of Chinese drugs combining with chemotherapy on quality of life in 146 children with solid tumor.

Objective: To explore the effect of Chinese drugs for supporting essence and strengthening Pi ( SESP) combining with chemotherapy on the quality of life (QOL) in the children with solid tumor.

Methods: Using a digital table, 146 children with solid tumor were randomized into two groups, 77 in the control group and 69 in the treated group. They received conventional chemotherapy, but to the patients in the treated group, SESP were administered additionally.

[Application of ATP based bioluminescence tumor chemosensitivity assay in the chemotherapy of pediatric solid tumor].

Objective: To explore the clinical significance of ATP based bioluminescence in vitro tumor chemosensitivity assay (ATP-TCA) in the chemotherapy of pediatric solid tumor.

Methods: The cell culture technique and ATP-TCA were used to study chemosensitivity assay in specimens from 50 cases who underwent resection surgery for solid tumor (15 malignant neurogenic tumor, 8 malignant germ cell tumors, 10 Wilms' tumors, 10 hepatoblastomas, 6 rhabdomyosarcomas, 1 adrenocortical carcinoma), 8 chemotherapeutic drugs and 8 drug combination schedules were applied in every specimen.

Results: (1) Specimens of 46 of 50 pediatric patients with solid tumors were suitable for evaluation and were evaluated, the overall evaluation rate was 92% (46/50).

[Effect of supporting the healthy energy and strengthening Pi principle of TCM combined with chemotherapy in treating children with solid tumors].

Objective: To study the clinical validity in improving quality of life (QOL) of patients and alleviating adverse reaction of chemotherapy in treating children with solid tumors by Chinese herbal medicine for supporting healthy energy and strengthening Pi.

Methods: A prospective cohort study was conducted in 60 children with solid tumor in stage II-IV, who were assigned to two groups, 30 in each group. All children received chemotherapy and those in the observed group were given Chinese herbs according to syndrome differentiation additionally.