Figure 1.
Flow chart of Literature searching and study selection.
Presentation of the procedure of literature searching and study selection with numbers of articles at each stage.
Figure 2.
Publication number of controlled clinical studies of TCM for cancer published in Chinese.
Presentation of the number of Chinese publication of controlled clinical studies of TCM for cancer in each year. The publication numbers of all the studies, journal articles, conference proceedings, dissertations, and the publications reporting funding information are shown respectively.
Figure 3.
Cancer categories in controlled clinical studies of TCM for cancer published in China.
Presentation of the categories of cancers reported in the include studies according to ICD-10.
Figure 4.
Top 10 cancer types with study numbers.
Presentation of the top 10 most frequently reported cancer types calculate by study numbers. The numbers of participants ware also presented.
Table 1.
Intervention and control for cancer patients in controlled clinical studies of TCM for cancer published in Chinese.
Table 2.
Outcome measurements reported in controlled clinical studies of TCM for cancer published in Chinese.
Table 3.
Completeness of Reporting across different types of publications.
Table 4.
Overall picture of methodology quality of RCT and CCS of TCM for cancer.
Figure 5.
Reporting completeness, randomization methods and blinding across years.
Percentage of reporting diagnosis criteria, inclusion/exclusion criteria, TCM diagnosis, golden standard of cancer, cancer staging, randomization method and blinding in the time order. Years are presented by the clusters of 1984–1989, 1990–1999, 2000–2009 and 2010–2011.