Table 3. Number of doses of treatment received and reason for treatment discontinuation.

	Treatment arm
	Huachansu + gemcitabine (n=39)		Placebo + gemcitabine (n=37)
Parameter	No.	%	No.	%
Mean no. of total cycles	2.7		2.4
s.d.	2.0		2.0
Median	2		2
Range	0–10		0–9
Off-treatment reason
Disease progression/symptom deterioration	23	59	17	46
Toxicity/adverse effects/complications	8	21	10	27
Patient withdrawal	8	21	10	27