Table 1_Beneficial effect of adjuvant traditional Chinese medicine therapy on body constit

A prospective observational study of 83 breast cancer patients receiving Western medicine alone or with adjunctive Chinese herbal medicine, followed for 3–6 months. The dataset likely contains patient outcomes measured using BCQ and WHOQOL-BREF instruments, with statistical analysis using IPTW and GEE models. The data was authored by Chien-Wei Tseng and last updated on April 20, 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze associations between adjunctive Chinese herbal medicine and symptom improvement based on BCQ outcomes like fatigue and hot flushes.
• Model changes in quality of life domains based on WHOQOL-BREF scores mentioned in the description.
• Study the application of inverse probability of treatment weighting (IPTW) for addressing baseline imbalance in observational data.
• Investigate symptom patterns characterized in traditional Chinese medicine terms, such as qi–yin deficiency with stasis-stagnation.

Strengths

• Data is from a real-world prospective observational study with 83 patients.
• Statistical methods like IPTW and GEE were used to estimate associations.
• License is CC-BY-4.0, permitting broad reuse with attribution.

Limitations

• Row count and column-level documentation are unknown, requiring manual inspection after download.
• The dataset is very small at 31.5 KB, indicating limited scope.
• Causal inference cannot be established, as noted in the study conclusion.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Prospective observational study in an integrative oncology setting.

Time Range

Study follow-up period of 3–6 months.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-20 04:11:54; freshness should be verified.

Geography

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