Exploring traditional Chinese medicine tongue diagnosis in potential cancer identification: A scoping review
The findings from this review provide a foundation for future research questions aimed at high-level observational studies. Tongue inspection holds promise as a cost-effective, time-efficient, and non-invasive method for detecting cancers and metastasis. Based on quality assessment, the study highlights future needs such as more prospective, blinded interpretation, pre-specified thresholds, and transparent reporting to improve both methodological rigor and external validity.
Authors
- Vincent Chan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5536-1565)
- Zhen Zheng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6777-1166)
- Benjamin Kimble (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3778-4027)
- Yong-Kang Wu
- Meng-Hua Chen
- Bin Xu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9922-0609)
- Stella Stylianou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3677-2830)
- Daniel Sze (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1319-2473)
- Brian H. May (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5864-3020)
- M. Wu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1423-986X)
Institutions
- The University of Sydney (AU)
- RMIT University (AU)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Integrative Medicine Research
- Published
- 2025-10-15
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.imr.2025.101265
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Traditional Chinese Medicine Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.38