How long can you live with prostate cancer

How long can one live with prostate cancer? Can advanced prostate cancer be cured? These are questions that many patients and their families are very concerned about. For advanced prostate cancer treatment, whether the treatment method is appropriate is the most important factor affecting how long one can live with advanced prostate cancer. For advanced prostate cancer, surgical resection is unlikely. Commonly used treatment methods in clinical practice include radiotherapy, chemotherapy, endocrine therapy, and traditional Chinese medicine.

How to relieve pain in late-stage prostate cancer

When the patient's condition has developed to the late stage of prostate cancer, the most common symptom is pain. This symptom not only brings pain to the patient's body, but also has a great impact on the patient's psychology. Therefore, we must pay attention to taking measures to relieve the pain of patients with advanced prostate cancer in our lives. For example, the following measures can be taken:

1. Prostate cancer should be treated early and some preventive care should be done. In life, the reason why most prostate cancer patients experience pain is due to the direct invasion or compression of sensory nerves in surrounding tissues by tumor growth or metastasis. Therefore, the best way to make cancer patients pain-free is early detection and early treatment, eliminating prostate cancer in its infancy so that it cannot cause pain. Among them, traditional Chinese medicine is more effective in treating prostate cancer pain, such as the analgesic drug "Huali Tang".

2. Nursing staff and patients' families should take measures to help patients eliminate negative influences: because whether it is social, psychological, spiritual, cultural and other factors, or factors of the disease itself, they will have a significant impact on the degree of pain of cancer patients. Social discrimination, relatives' disgust, psychological loneliness and other negative emotions will aggravate the pain, while caring, comforting and the optimistic spirit of the patients themselves will help break the vicious cycle of pain and relieve the pain.

3. Help patients develop good living habits: For example, we take measures to prevent patients with advanced prostate cancer from excessive fatigue, prevent colds, ban smoking and drinking, avoid spicy food, ride bicycles less, and have sex neither too frequently nor abstinently.

4. Help patients build up confidence in defeating the disease: that is, let patients with advanced prostate cancer realize that prostate cancer is not an incurable disease, but it has a long course and is prone to recurrence. Adherence to comprehensive treatment can still prolong survival.