Active cancer therapy combined with TCM vs active cancer therapy: Quality of life ‐ number experiencing improvement
Active cancer therapy combined with TCM may leads to higher quality of life ‐ number experiencing improvement compared with active cancer therapy (low certainty).
What each review found
Include earlier review versions| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Active cancer therapy combined with TCM vs active cancer therapy Quality of life ‐ number experiencing improvement · patients with oesophageal cancer Active cancer therapy combined with TCM may leads to higher quality of life ‐ number experiencing improvement compared with active cancer therapy (low certainty). Chinese herbal medicine for oesophageal cancer (2016) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 2.2 [1.42, 3.39] | 5 studies · 233 participants | Low |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chinese herbal medicine for oesophageal cancer 2016 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | Not reported | list not extracted yet | Not assessed |
Studies behind the findings
None of these reviews ties its included studies to this outcome in the data here. Cochrane reviews and reviews with headline outcomes only do not list their studies yet.
How reviews are matched to this question
Reviews word the same question differently. Four decision models (TypeSafe's Jev, Liquid AI's d1-ultra, SubQ Snap and Baseten's Elephant) judged each wording of the population, intervention, comparator and outcome against the others; two wordings count as the same when at least three of them agree and none clearly disagrees, and findings count as this question only when all four elements match. Timing, setting and subgroup never split a question: they are shown on each finding.