초록
Clinical studies were carried out 83 cases of patients with colorectal cancer treated by Hangamdan(抗癌丹) from January 1th 1998 to September 30th 2000. The results were summarized as follows; 1. Distribution of those attached by colorectal cancer, by sex, showed that Male is more then Female, by age, showed that the number of fifties is majority. 2. Distribution of diagnostic stage, in descending order; stage III(53%, top), stage IV(45.8%). 3. The effects of maintenance and improvement in the symptoms with traditional oriental therapy(83.3%) and combined treatment of western and oriental therapy(92.1%) were observed. The effects of the symptoms were as follows: diarrhea(37.3%), abdominal pain (25.3%), general body weakness(22.9%), nausea(20.5%) and etc. in orders. 4. Analysis of hematology attached by colorectal cancer, maintenance and increasing of WBC(89.9%), RBC(74.7%), Hgb(81.1%), Platelet(92.4%) were observed. After taken Hangamdan, the safety of the liver and kidney were as follows; maintenance and decreasing of AST(85.9%), ALT(94.8%), GTP(87.5%), Creatinine(90.9%) were observed. 5. of IL-12 and $IFN-\gammer$ attached by colorectal cancer, increasing of IL-12(53.3%), IFN-{\gammer}(80%)$) were observed. 6. Analysis of QOL attached by colorectal cancer, maintenance and improvement of combined treatment of western and oriental therapy(89.6%), traditional oriental therapy(83.3%) were observed. 7. Analysis of survival in patients with IV stage of colorectal cancer, above 7 months(18.4%), 12 months(65.8%). 8. Analysis of antitumor effects, maintenance of traditional oriental therapy(83.3%) and maintenance and improvement of combined treatment of western and oriental therapy(80.5%) were observed. Analysis of tumor marker attached by colorectal cancer, maintenance and decreasing of CEA(78.8%) were observed. 9. Analysis of curative valuation, maintenance and improvement of traditional oriental therapy(83.3%), combined treatment of western and oriental therapy(72.7%) were observed. From the above results, it is suggested that Hangamdan has significant effects of antitumor and immune activity, also could be usefully applied for colorectal cancer patients by combination with western therapy or alone.
