[Clinical observation on treatment of multiple bone metastatic tumor of mammary cancer by combination therapy of 89Sr and Chinese herbal medicine].

OBJECTIVE: To compare the clinical curative effects between 89Sr and its combination with the Guliu recipe (GLR, a Chinese herbal medicine) in treating multiple bone metastatic tumor of mammary cancer (MBM-MC). METHODS: By adopting the random sampling and grouping method, 89Sr alone (Sr) and 89Sr combined with CHM (Sr-GLR) were used in treating 86 and 40 patients with MBM-MC respectively. The efficacy of therapy were appraised according to the degree of ostalgia relieving and quality of life (QOF) in patients, and the effect of treatment on focal bone metabolism and bone marrow hematopoietic function were compared. RESULTS: The effective rate of Sr and Sr-GLR in relieving ostalgia was 83.72% and 95.00%, respectively (P > 0.05), the QOF improving and stabilizing rate of them 80.23% and 95.00% (P < 0.05), the effective rate on focal bone metabolism 59.30% and 52.50% (P > 0.05) and their hemo-toxicity 28.00% and 30.00% (P > 0.05). CONCLUSION: Sr-GLR is a combination therapy in treating MBM-MC with good effect, it could raise the patient's QOF, enhance the ostalgia relieving effect without increasing the hemo-toxicity of treatment.