Effect of Japanese Traditional Medicine, TJ-41, on Quality of Life for Patients with Non-Small Lung Cancer Receiving Outpatient Chemotherapy

ABSTRACT An increasing number of patients with lung cancer are undergoing outpatient chemotherapy. It is very important to keep the quality of life (QOL) for these patients. Japanese traditional medicine, TJ-41, has been reported to improve the QOL of patients with advanced cancer. However, it has been unknown about the effect of TJ-41 in patients with lung cancer undergoing outpatient chemotherapy. So we conducted this study. To investigate the factors influencing the quality of life (QOL) for these patients, we answered using a QOL questionaire, ‘The QOL Questionnaire for Cancer Patients Treated with Anticancer Drugs’ (QOL-ACD) to 8 patients (5 males, 3 females, aged 57–90, mean age 71.5) with non-small-cell lung cancer. The medical factors related to the overall QOL scores and other categories indicating ‘activity’, ‘physical condition’, ‘psychological condition’, ‘social relationship’, ‘psychological condition’ and ‘face scale’ were analyzed. Significant decreasement in each factor was not observed in this study.