What medication to take for bone pain in advanced lung cancer

In addition to treating the cause of bone pain, patients with advanced lung cancer can also take analgesic drugs for symptomatic treatment. 1. Causal treatment: Most of the bone pain symptoms in advanced lung cancer patients are caused by metastatic tumor occupying effect or tumor invading nerves, therefore, it is necessary to actively target lung cancer and metastatic foci for treatment, which can be carried out by taking bisphosphonate drugs, chemotherapy, targeted therapy, immunotherapy, radiotherapy, surgery, etc., to kill the tumor cytopathies and thus alleviate the pain. 2. Symptomatic treatment: advanced lung cancer patients with bone pain symptoms can take pain relieving drugs to alleviate the symptoms, commonly used drugs include non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and opioids, of which non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs include ibuprofen, diclofenac, loxoprofen, etc., and opioids include codeine, tramadol and morphine, etc. Cancer pain relieving needs to follow the principle of three-step treatment. The above treatments should be carried out under the guidance of physicians, and it is recommended that advanced lung cancer patients with bone pain symptoms should consult the oncology department of regular hospitals, and do not take medicines on their own to avoid delaying their condition.