Nab-paclitaxel plus platinum versus paclitaxel plus platinum as first-line therapy in patients with metastatic or recurrent cervical cancer.

Purpose: This study aimed to assess the efficacy and safety of nanoparticle albumin-bound paclitaxel (nab-paclitaxel) plus platinum versus paclitaxel plus platinum as first-line therapy in patients with metastatic or recurrent cervical cancer.

Methods: Between October 2020 and March 2022, consecutive patients with diagnosed with metastatic or recurrent cervical cancer were retrospectively recruited in our hospital. Fifty-four patients were treated with nab-paclitaxel plus cisplatin or carboplatin.

Effect of qi-tonifying and stasis-eliminating therapy on expression of vascular endothelial growth factor and its receptors Flt-1, Flk-1 in the brain of intracerebral hemorrhagic rats.

Objective: To investigate the effects and mechanism of qi-tonifying and stasis-eliminating (QTSE) therapy on the expression of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and its receptors Flt-1 and Flk-1 in the brains of intracerebral hemorrhagic (model) rats.

Methods: One hundred and eighty Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly divided into six groups: the normal group (n=5), the sham-operative (SO) group (n=35), the model group (n=35), the QTSE group (n=35), the QT group (n=35) and the SE group (n=35). All the rats except those in the normal group and SO group were established into an intracerebral hemorrhage(ICH) model by intracerebral injection of collagenase type VII and the latter three were orally administered with Buyang Huanwu Decoction (a classical recipe for QTSE) or with some of its components for qi-tonification and for stasis-elimination, respectively.

[Thinking on the assessment of clinical therapeutic effectiveness of TCM].

How to assess the therapeutic effectiveness of TCM is the focus of this paper, the trend of study on standard for therapeutic effectiveness assessment and application of standard for disease combined with symptom diagnosis and treatment were described. Taking the study on standard for TCM syndrome of Gan as an example, the basic principle and existing problem in standard formulation were pointed out. The possibility in establishing the therapeutic effectiveness assessment system of TCM by using the quantified scale for therapeutic effectiveness assessment as a tool, i.