Traditional Chinese Medicine Syndromes are Associated with Driver Gene Mutations and Clinical Characteristics in Patients with Lung Adenocarcinoma

Table 5

Associations between traditional Chinese medicine syndromes and clinical characteristics.

Characteristics	n	TCM syndrome (n)
		Lung-spleen Qi deficiency	Yin deficiency and internal heat	Qi and Yin deficiency	Qi stagnation and blood stasis	Yin and Yang deficiency
Sex
Male	59	11	16	15	15,	2	0.010
Female	68	21	13	24	4	6
Smoking history
Yes	56	9	17	19	9	2	0.116
No	71	23	12	20	10	6
Clinical stage
I, II	8	1	1	5	1	0	0.595
III	18	5	5	7	1	0
IV	101	26	23	27	17	8

Compared with lung-spleen Qi deficiency, . Compared with Qi and Yin deficiency, .