Antineoplastic drugs are easy to cause hand-foot syndrome in patients, seriously affect the quality of life, and even affect the dose or course of chemotherapy, and then affect the therapeutic effect. At present, there is no unified treatment standard in western medicine. Some studies have confirmed that the hand and foot of traditional Chinese medicine has a certain clinical effect on hand and foot syndrome. This paper mainly summarizes the clinical research results of traditional Chinese medicine on malignant tumor chemotherapy hand and foot syndrome by consulting the relevant literature, in order to provide reference for clinical drug use.

Bofan Hu, Fang Du, Peng Xu. Progress in TCM Treatment of Chemotherapy-induced Hand-foot Syndrome in Malignant Tumors. Frontiers in Medical Science Research (2022) Vol. 4, Issue 7: 52-56. https://doi.org/10.25236/FMSR.2022.040709.

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