Efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine combined with chemotherapy for gastric cancer and precancerous gastric lesions: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Front Oncol · 2026 · PMC13006311 · PMID 41878534

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QoL outcomes showed a positive trend favoring TCM combination therapy (SMD: 0.82, 95% CI: -0.17 to 1.81), although this did not reach statistical significance.

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The broad confidence interval also implies a lot of uncertainty regarding the benefit of QoL, and the borderline significance shows that there is a trend of improvement, but the evidence is still not enough for the final conclusion.

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