中医药治疗前列腺癌的研究进展

Research progress of Chinese traditional medicine on the treatment of prostate cancer

中医药有着独特的抗肿瘤优势,可作为临床上治疗晚期前列腺癌的主要手段之一。近年来,相关基础和临床研究认为,正虚邪入、痰湿瘀阻下焦为前列腺癌中医病因病机,特定中药单体和复方可抑制前列腺癌细胞增殖并诱发凋亡,此外,结合西医分期的中西医结合治疗前列腺癌能获得良好的临床效果。但是,中医治疗前列腺癌尚缺乏统一证治标准,需要深入研究从而完善前列腺癌中医辨证论治体系,拓展中医药治疗前列腺癌的临床应用范围。

Chinese traditional medicine has its own advantage on anti-tumor treatments and it can be one of the main therapeutic approaches in treating advanced prostate cancer（ PCa）. Recent correlative basic studies and clinical trials have demonstrated that superficies pathogens involving interior and phlegm and dampness obstruction in lower Jiao are the Chinese traditional medicine etiology of PCa,while special herbal monomers and Chinese herbal prescriptions can prevent proliferation of cancer cells and induce apoptosis. Furthermore,integrated traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine combining with clinical stage classification based therapy is quite effective to treat PCa. However,treatment of PCa by traditional Chinese medicine is in lack of unified standards of diagnosis and treatment. Further studies will be applied to improve traditional Chinese medicine system and broaden clinical application in the treatment in PCa.