Treatment Alternative and High Safety Profile of Acupuncture Plus Chemotherapy for Advanced Gastric Cancer

Table 2

Comparison of tumor markers levels ( ± s).

Groups	n	Before treatment			After treatment
		CEA (μg/ml)	CA19-9 (U/ml)	CA72-4 (U/ml)	CEA (μg/ml)	CA19-9 (U/ml)	CA72-4 (U/ml)
Control group	60	24.23 ± 2.27	255.54 ± 8.17	78.25 ± 3.47	16.25 ± 2.12	228.52 ± 9.14	70.08 ± 4.13
Experimental group	60	24.51 ± 2.11	256.08 ± 7.94	77.94 ± 3.86	13.21 ± 1.31	158.14 ± 5.14	56.74 ± 5.27
t value	—	0.718	0.367	0.462	9.471	51.967	15.433
value	—	0.474	0.714	0.645	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001

indicates a statistically significant difference () in the same group between before and after treatment.