Fig. 2
The flow chart of the articles collection This study included basic and clinical studies of TCM combined with arbitrary clinical therapy or drug for HCC published in English as of October 2021 since the establishment of PubMed and Web of Science. The keywords such as "Traditional Chinese medicine", "hepatocellular carcinoma", "combination" and "resistance" were searched to screen articles with inclusion and exclusion criteria. Finally, 65 basic research articles and 16 clinical articles were collected