In recent years, the main clinical treatment of lung cancer is chemotherapy drugs, but the side effects caused by long-term use of these drugs will lead to the decline of human immunity. According to the domestic and foreign literature studies in recent years, traditional Chinese medicine can not only reduce the toxic and side effects caused by chemotherapeutic drugs, but also treat patients on the basis of diagnosis and treatment of Western medicine according to syndrome differentiation, to alleviate the patients with various symptoms, improve the patient's immunity, improve the quality of life of patients. The purpose of this study is to summarize the treatment of different types of lung cancer by traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in order to show that TCM has special therapeutic effect on different types of lung cancer, it provides accurate and reliable theoretical basis for clinical treatment of lung cancer and is worth popularizing. 

Fangfang Yang, Zhengrong Ye. Study on Treatment of Lung Cancer Based on Syndrome Differentiation with Traditional Chinese Medicine. Frontiers in Medical Science Research (2022) Vol. 4, Issue 11: 1-4. https://doi.org/10.25236/FMSR.2022.041101.

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