Patient's question:
My father is 58 years old this year. In July 2009, he was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer at the fifth hospital in Chenzhou, Hunan. He had multiple bone metastases and underwent a testicular removal surgery. After recovery, he took Casodex for over a year until May 2011 when he experienced severe pain all over his body, especially in his legs and bones. When the pain occurred, he took Fenbid for pain relief, but it didn't work.Doctor's answer:
The most common and earliest clinical manifestation of bone metastasis in prostate cancer is bone pain. Persistent dull pain often affects the patient's appetite and daily life rhythm, leading to gradual weight loss and unbearable suffering. Modern Chinese medicine ginsenoside Rh2 (Humen) (with the optimal refined content around 16.2%) possesses dual functions of immune regulation and anti-tumor. For patients with bone metastasis of prostate cancer, on the other hand, through its immune regulatory effect, it reduces the patient's immune system function, lowering the ability of autoimmune cells to combat cancer cell invasion, thereby slowing the spread of cancer cells and alleviating the pain caused by cancer cell proliferation.