Study on TCM Syndrome Differentiation of Primary Liver Cancer Based on the Analysis of Latent Structural Model

Primary liver cancer (PLC) is one of the most common malignant tumors because of its high incidence and high mortality. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) plays an active role in the treatment of PLC. As the most important part in the TCM system, syndrome differentiation based on the clinical manife...

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Published inEvidence-based complementary and alternative medicine Vol. 2015; no. 2015; pp. 1 - 9
Main Authors Yue, Xiaoqiang, Ma, Changping, Lu, Jianying, Lang, Qingbo, Zhai, Xiao-Feng, Qi, Xiuzhong, Gu, Zhan, Liu, Long
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cairo, Egypt Hindawi Publishing Corporation 01.01.2015
Hindawi Limited
Subjects
Chinese medicine
Clustering
Data mining
Economic models
Hospitals
Liver cancer
Methods
Mortality
Pathogenesis
R&D
Research & development
Science
Spleen
Urine
Variables
China
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Summary:Primary liver cancer (PLC) is one of the most common malignant tumors because of its high incidence and high mortality. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) plays an active role in the treatment of PLC. As the most important part in the TCM system, syndrome differentiation based on the clinical manifestations from traditional four diagnostic methods has met great challenges and questions with the lack of statistical validation support. In this study, we provided evidences for TCM syndrome differentiation of PLC using the method of analysis of latent structural model from clinic data, thus providing basis for establishing TCM syndrome criteria. And also we obtain the common syndromes of PLC as well as their typical clinical manifestations, respectively.
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Academic Editor: Zhao-Xiang Bian
ISSN:1741-427X
1741-4288
DOI:10.1155/2015/761565