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ReviewEvidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM2020

Effect of Traditional Chinese Medicine Injection on Cancer-Related Fatigue: A Meta-Analysis Based on Existing Evidence.

Zhengkai Huang, Qiang Zhang, Yihua Fan, Jiajing Zhou, Mingkun Liang, Xin Deng, Jian Liang

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Review in Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 16% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

Zhengkai HuangCollege of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Hunan University of Chinese Medicine, Changsha 410208, China.
Qiang ZhangDepartment of Oncology, Army Medical Center of PLA, ChongQing 400042, China.
Yihua FanFirst Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin 300193, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-4004
Jiajing ZhouDepartment of Oncology, Yantai Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Yantai 264000, China.
Mingkun LiangCollege of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Hunan University of Chinese Medicine, Changsha 410208, China.
Xin DengSchool of Basic Sciences, Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine, Nanning 530200, China.
Jian LiangCollege of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Hunan University of Chinese Medicine, Changsha 410208, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6084-3849
Hunan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine · CNArmy Medical University · CNGuangxi University · CNNational Clinical Research · USYantaishan Hospital · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

methodsWe systematically searched randomized controlled studies reported through March 2020 in PubMed, EMBASE, the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Web of Science, China Biomedical Literature Database (CBM), the China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), Wanfang, and VIP databases. Two investigators independently screened the studies according to the predetermined criteria, extracted data, and evaluated the bias risk of the included studies, using RevMan5.3 software.

resultsTwelve studies enrolling 1005 participants were included in this systematic review. We found that TCMJ could improve the clinical efficacy of CRF patients (RR = 1.24, 95% CI: 1.05-1.46,

conclusionCurrent research evidence showed that TCMJ could improve the clinical efficacy, fatigue status, and life quality of patients with CRF. In addition, we found that TCMJ could improve the clinical efficacy of CRF patients in a short period of time. Tonic TCMJ could improve the clinical efficacy, but heat-clearing TCMJ could not. Life quality and fatigue status of lung cancer patients improved significantly. However, due to the sample size and quality of the included studies, the results of this analysis should be treated with caution. The above conclusions still need to be verified by more large-sample and high-quality randomized controlled trials.

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