How to relieve leg pain in patients with prostate cancer

If a prostate cancer patient experiences leg pain, he or she needs to go to the hospital for further examination to rule out the pain being caused by femoral metastasis, and then receive symptomatic treatment.

1. If prostate cancer progresses and causes leg pain after femoral metastasis, treatment is relatively difficult. First, the primary prostate cancer disease needs to be treated, such as endocrine therapy or radical prostatectomy. Secondly, the metastasis symptoms should be controlled, such as intravenous injection of zoledronic acid to inhibit bone metastasis and relieve bone pain. Finally, oral analgesics are needed. In the early stage, oral diclofenac sodium capsules can be taken, and in the later stage, oral morphine sulfate sustained-release tablets, oxycodone hydrochloride tablets, etc. can be taken to treat cancer pain and improve the patient's quality of life.

2. If the prostate has not metastasized and the leg pain is caused by bone and joint diseases, it is recommended to go to the orthopedic department for specialist treatment. The examination includes prostate MRI and serum PSA level to understand whether the prostate cancer has progressed. If the PSA level is well controlled, continue to use the original drugs to control prostate cancer and prevent bone metastasis of prostate cancer.