Advances in TCM Treatment for Metastasis of Tumors

<正> As one of the basic biologic features of malignanttumors and a major cause leading to failure oftreatment and even death,metastasis has aroused agreat interest among the medical researchers.To date,convincing evidence is still lacking as to whethermetastasis could be controlled by surgery,radio-orchemotherapy.However,TCM measures have provedto be advantageous in improving the survival qualityand prolonging the survival period by decreasing therate of distant metastasis of tumors.The following isa brief summary on the advances in this field.