Effect of remedies for enhancing resistance and relieving blood stasis on metastasis in postoperative gastric cancer and ornithine decarboxylase levels

Table 1 Mean ornithine decarboxylase levels in normal gastric mucosa before and after treatment (CO₂ nmol·mg protein^-1·h^-1)

	n	Pre-treatment	Post-treatment	Pre-treatment minus post-treatment (¯x ± s)
Traditional and Western medicine	32	246.9	191.7	55.1 ± 6.49
Western medicine only	31	239.9	225.1	14.8 ± 2.01

Table 2 Analysis of ornithine decarboxylase levels changes in normal gastric mucosa and related factors in study groups before and after treatment (¯x ± s)

		Traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine		Western medicine only
		Before	After (n)	Before	After (n)
Tumor diameter (cm)	< 4.9	194.2/128.4	65.7 ± 9.03 (18)a	188.3/181.8	6.5 ± 1.23 (16)
	≥ 5.0	26908/248.8	21.1 ± 4.63 (14)	270.1/262.1	8.0 ± 1.7 3 (15)
	Advanced cancer	288.3/261.8	26.5 ± 4.2 (20)	269.8/255.1	14.7 ± 2.95 (20)
Histological type	Differentiated	201.1/125.8	75.3 ± 10.89 (21)a	211.3/193.4	17.9 ± 2.27 (2)
	Undifferentiated	288.5/268.8	19.7 ± 3.58 (11)	276.8/282.5	-5.7 ± 1.29 (10)
Lymph node metastasis	Negative	198.8/176.5	22.3 ± 3.98 (13)	201.1/188.5	12.6 ± 3.13 (11)
	Positive	381.3/255.3	126 ± 17.17 (19)b	273.8/365.4	8.4 ± 1.09 (20)

Comparison before and after treatment,

^aP < 0.05,

^bP < 0.01.