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Case of Stage IV Renal Cancer Patient Whose Metastatic Lymph Node and Severe Back Pain Improved after Integrative Treatment  

Han, Chang-Woo (Department of Korean Medicine, School of Korean Medicine, Pusan National University)
Kim, Do-Hyung (Department of Korean Medical Science, School of Korean Medicine, Pusan National University)
Park, Seung-Chan (Department of Korean Medical Science, School of Korean Medicine, Pusan National University)
Cho, Min-Kyoung (Department of Internal Medicine, Korean Medicine Hospital of Pusan National University)
Kim, So-Yeon (Department of Korean Medical Science, School of Korean Medicine, Pusan National University)
Hong, Jin-Woo (Department of Korean Medicine, School of Korean Medicine, Pusan National University)
Lee, In (Department of Korean Medicine, School of Korean Medicine, Pusan National University)
Park, Seong-Ha (Department of Korean Medicine, School of Korean Medicine, Pusan National University)
Kwon, Jung-Nam (Department of Korean Medicine, School of Korean Medicine, Pusan National University)
Choi, Jun-Yong (Department of Korean Medical Science, School of Korean Medicine, Pusan National University)
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Journal of Physiology & Pathology in Korean Medicine / v.26, no.2, 2012 , pp. 228-233 More about this Journal
Abstract
Two years ago, a 75-year-old female was diagnosed left renal cancer and went on radical nephrectomy. Recently, metastatized lesions on lumbar spine and various lymph nodes including paraaortic lymph node of which diameter was about 5.5 cm was identified. She suffered from extreme low back pain despite using opioid agents of fentanyl patch and oral oxycodone. During about one month, Korean medicine therpies including herbal medicine(Yang-He tang), acupuncture with her conventional medications were co-administered. However her pain didn't improved and gradual cough and dyspnea developed. So she transferred to the hemato-oncology part for 2 weeks under the diagnosis of everolimus-induced noninfectious pneumonitis. After quitting everolimus her pneumonitis was improved and she came back our ward and started another herbal medicine, Ai-Tong-Ning tang for about 2 months. During this period, her pain was well managed without oral opioid agents and her paraaortic lymph node was regressed to about 2.2cm in diameter.
Keywords
advanced renal cancer; herbal medicine; metastasis; pain;
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