Significant improvement in overall survival with postoperative traditional Chinese medicine in stage I lung adenocarcinoma: a real-world retrospective cohort study
Boyue Pang, Jianing Chen, Xiang Lv, Mengfan Wang, Li Wang, Chunxia Su, Sufang Zhang · 2026
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Boyue Pang and six colleagues followed in 2026 patients with the earliest stage of lung adenocarcinoma to see whether traditional Chinese herbal treatment after surgery tracked with longer life. These patients had complete tumour removal and received no other adjuvant therapy, a group where extra benefit is hard to prove. The cohort held 776 people, split between those who took individualised herbal decoctions for at least six months and those who simply attended follow-up.
Follow-up stretched to a median of more than seven years, with 50 deaths and 145 recurrences recorded. Weighting methods balanced the groups on age, sex, smoking, family history, and tumour stage. Herbal treatment was associated with significantly better overall survival in the headline analysis, and recurrence outcomes were tracked as a secondary measure. The authors frame the result as real-world evidence that invites a randomised trial.
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| CREATOR | Boyue Pang, Jianing Chen, Xiang Lv, Mengfan Wang, Li Wang, Chunxia Su, Sufang Zhang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 39425 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |