Patient: father, 63 years old, a year ago has been said that back pain, leg pain to Qingdao Chengyang Hospital did not check out the cause of the disease, to Qingdao Guzhen orthopedic hospital also did not check out the problem, last month to the Shanda Hospital to do a bone scan, said that metastatic tumor, and many places have, said that there is no long time to live, the previous back pain when acupuncture, ate traditional Chinese medicine, with a number of painkillers. How should I treat it and how long can I live without treatment? Doctor：At present, it is mainly palliative treatment, and for the metastatic tumor site with heavier pain, radiotherapy can be carried out. The specific survival time depends on the condition. If the metastatic tumor does not affect the brain, lungs and other vital organs, it is usually not fatal. What is fatal is that the tumor affects the function of vital organs and the overgrowth of the tumor consumes the energy of the person. For malignant tumors, the current concept is to treat them as chronic diseases. Just like coronary heart disease, in fact, it is also incurable ah! But people are very accepting of it and are not afraid of it. In fact, the probability of death from coronary heart disease is higher than that of malignant tumors. Since malignant tumors are treated as chronic diseases, improving the quality of life is the key to their treatment. For pain, palliative radiotherapy and even surgery are good For tumors that metastasize to the spine, if it’s a single vertebra, it can be surgically removed to prevent the tumor from invading the cauda equina of the spinal cord, which can lead to paralysis and affect the quality of life.