Supportive Psychotherapy Combined with Analgesic Management can Effectively Improve Pain and Quality of Life in Patients with Advanced Prostate Cancer: A Retrospective Study.

OBJECTIVE: Patients with advanced prostate cancer commonly experience psychological issues and have a low quality of life. This study aims to analyse the application of supportive psychotherapy combined with analgesic management on the pain and quality of life of patients with advanced prostate cancer. METHODS: Patients with advanced prostate cancer admitted to our hospital from February 2018 to December 2022 were continuously selected as the research objects. In accordance with the different management methods recorded in the medical record system, the patients were divided into a control group (routine nursing + analgesic management) and an observation group (routine nursing + analgesic management + supportive psychotherapy). The Athens Insomnia Scale (AIS), State Anxiety Scale (S-AI), Trait Anxiety Scale (T-AI), Numeric Rating Scale (NRS) and 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36) scores between the two groups were compared. RESULTS: A total of 125 patients with advanced prostate cancer participated in this study, with 60 patients in the control group and 65 patients in the observation group. No significant difference was found in the scores of the AIS, S-AI, T-AI, NRS and SF-36 of the two groups before management (p > 0.05). After management, the AIS (4.00 vs. 5.00, p = 0.002), S-AI (38.88 vs. 41.12, p = 0.002), T-AI (39.17 vs. 41.65, p = 0.001) and NRS (3.00 vs. 3.00, p < 0.001) scores of the observation group were lower than those of the control group. However, the SF-36 scores of the observation group were higher than those of the control group in the dimensions of physiological enginery (75.85 vs. 68.75, p < 0.001), physiological function (71.85 vs. 67.75, p = 0.004), body pain (73.15 vs. 69.33, p = 0.006), social function (73.88 vs. 69.85, p = 0.004), emotional function (72.92 vs. 68.98, p = 0.006), mental health (73.52 vs. 69.83, p = 0.008), vitality (72.09 vs. 69.52, p = 0.044) and general health (70.65 vs. 66.23, p = 0.002). CONCLUSIONS: Supportive psychotherapy combined with analgesic management for patients with advanced prostate cancer may help improve the pain, anxiety and quality of sleep and life of patients.

Multifunctional Hierarchical Nanoplatform with Anisotropic Bimodal Mesopores for Effective Neural Circuit Reconstruction after Spinal Cord Injury.

A persistent inflammatory response, intrinsic limitations in axonal regenerative capacity, and widespread presence of extrinsic axonal inhibitors impede the restoration of motor function after a spinal cord injury (SCI). A versatile treatment platform is urgently needed to address diverse clinical manifestations of SCI. Herein, we present a multifunctional nanoplatform with anisotropic bimodal mesopores for effective neural circuit reconstruction after SCI. The hierarchical nanoplatform features of a Janus structure consist of dual compartments of hydrophilic mesoporous silica (mSiO2) and hydrophobic periodic mesoporous organosilica (PMO), each possessing distinct pore sizes of 12 and 3 nm, respectively. Unlike traditional hierarchical mesoporous nanomaterials with dual-mesopores interlaced with each other, the two sets of mesopores in this Janus nanoplatform are spatially independent and possess completely distinct chemical properties. The Janus mesopores facilitate controllable codelivery of dual drugs with distinct properties: the hydrophilic macromolecular enoxaparin (ENO) and the hydrophobic small molecular paclitaxel (PTX). Anchoring with CeO2, the resulting mSiO2&PMO-CeO2-PTX&ENO nanoformulation not only effectively alleviates ROS-induced neuronal apoptosis but also enhances microtubule stability to promote intrinsic axonal regeneration and facilitates axonal extension by diminishing the inhibitory effect of extracellular chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans. We believe that this functional dual-mesoporous nanoplatform holds significant potential for combination therapy in treating severe multifaceted diseases.

The impact of public health education on people's demand for commercial health insurance: Empirical evidence from China.

Public health education is gaining significance globally, and it is important for managing health risks. This study empirically analyzed the effect of public health education on people's demand for commercial health insurance. And we used the fixed effects and the mediating effect models, and instrumental variables regression in our research based on panel data of 31 provinces (including municipalities and autonomous regions) in China from year 2009 to 2019. The findings show that public health education significantly increases people's demand for commercial health insurance, and this effect remains significant when considering endogeneity and robustness. We further analyzed and found that the increased demand for commercial health insurance is caused by health literacy, health risk perceptions and health risk attitudes. Through heterogeneity analysis, we found that there were significant differences in the effects of public health education in regions with different demographic and socioeconomic characteristics. We found that the effect of health education on promoting people's demand for commercial health insurance is more obvious in regions with high levels of urbanization, proportion of men, education, economic development, medical resources, and social medical insurance coverage. Governments are supposed to take further measures to enhance the effectiveness of public health education, develop high-quality commercial health insurance, and continuously improve health risk coverage.

Clinical Effect of Fuzheng Guben Decoction in the Treatment of Localized Prostate Cancer and Its Influence on Immune Function under Continuous Nursing Intervention.

In order to explore the clinical effect and immune function of patients with localized prostate cancer combined with continuous nursing intervention and Fuzheng Guben decoction, a total of 72 patients with prostate cancer admitted to our hospital from January 2020 to June 2021 are selected and analyzed. The patients are randomly divided into a study group and control group randomly, and the control group and the research group are treated with routine intervention and chemotherapy, continuous nursing intervention, and Fuzheng Guben decoction on the basis of chemotherapy, respectively. The incidence of postoperative urinary incontinence and other complications between the two groups are counted, and the differences of FHIT, CatD, CatL, CD68, and CD83 levels in the patients are compared. Furthermore, the total treatment response rate and self-attitude score of the two groups are compared after treatment. The experimental results demonstrate that the total effective rate and self-attitude score of patients in the study group are significantly better than those in the control group.

How Does Media Use Promote the Purchase of Private Medical Insurance? A Moderated Mediation Model.

Various information media (such as TV and the Internet) have become the main channels through which for people to obtain information. Previous studies showed that media use influences the purchase of private medical insurance; however, research on its internal influence mechanism is still relatively weak. Using data from the Chinese General Social Survey 2017, this study constructed a moderated mediation model to analyze the mechanism of the influence of media use on the purchase of private medical insurance. Individuals' self-rated health status was used as a mediator and individual cognitive ability was used as a moderator. The results showed that self-rated health status played a partial mediating role and individual cognitive ability played a negative moderating role in the direct path between media use and the purchase of private medical insurance. Furthermore, in the indirect path, individual cognitive ability negatively moderated the impact of media use on self-rated health status.

Clinical Efficacy and Safety of Bevacizumab, Apatinib, and Recombinant Human Endothelial Inhibitor in the Treatment of Advanced Gastric Cancer.

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the clinical efficacy and safety of bevacizumab, apatinib, and recombinant human endothelial inhibitor in the treatment of advanced gastric cancer. METHODS: The medical data of 204 patients with a medium to advanced gastric cancer assessed for eligibility treated in our hospital from February 2019 to April 2020 were retrospectively analyzed. The eligible patients were assigned at a ratio of 1 : 1:1 : 1 to either the control group (chemotherapy), study group I (bevacizumab combined with chemotherapy), study group II (apatinib combined with chemotherapy), or study group III (recombinant human endothelial inhibitor combined with chemotherapy) according to different treatment methods. The treatment efficacy, drug toxicity, quality of life, and serum tumor marker levels before and after treatment were compared among the four groups. RESULTS: Regarding the treatment effects, the effective rate of study group II (68.63%) was significantly higher than that of the control group (33.33%), study group I (58.82%), and study group III (49.02%) (P < 0.05). The four groups showed similar safety and tolerability profiles (P > 0.05). The treatment in study group II led to a significantly higher physiological function score vs. the other three groups, but the scores of other items were not significantly different. Significant reduction was observed in the serum tumor markers after treatment in the four groups (P < 0.05), but treatment in study group II led to a significantly greater reduction than the other three groups (P < 0.05). CONCLUSION: The addition of apatinib, bevacizumab, and recombinant human endothelial inhibitor injection to chemotherapy for the treatment of medium to advanced gastric cancer can significantly improve the clinical treatment efficacy, among which the use of apatinib combined with chemotherapy achieves the best results, which is worthy of clinical promotion.

The impact of internet use on old-age support patterns of middle-aged and older adults.

Background: The trend towards low fertility and low mortality is prominant worldwide. The accelerating ageing and the pressure on public pensions are making the "dependent pattern of old-age support", which relies on family and government, unsustainable. It is urgent for people to change their mindset about ageing and to develop a sense of "relying on themselves for oldage support". Methods: This study incorporates the commercial pension insurance, formal care and the attitude towards independent old-age support pattern into the framework of "independent pattern of old-age support", using the probit regression model and instrumental variables approach to examine the impact of internet use on old-age support patterns of middleaged and older people based on the CGSS 2012-2018 five-period data. Results: The more frequent internet use increased the likelihood of purchasing commercial pension insurance, accepting formal care, and endorsing independence in later life. The internet can promote the acceptance of independent pattern of old-age support by delivering information and facilitating social interaction. Discussion: Consistent with previous research, this study finds that internet use can promote the purchase of commercial pension insurance. There are no relevant studies on the impact of internet use on formal care and attitude towards independent old-age support pattern. Our finding provides important empirical and theoretical references for ageing countries to further transform old-age support patterns.

Study on the clinical effects of targeted therapy on elderly patients with gastric cancer.

To explore the clinical effects of targeted drug therapy on elderly patients with gastric cancer. Totally 200 metastatic gastric cancer patients who came to our hospital from January 2017 to January 2020 were selected and randomized into four groups, with 50 patients in each group. Bevacizumab (Group I), apatinib (Group II), and recombinant human endostatin (Group III) adopted respectively. While the control group received no targeted drug. Clinical data and clinical effect was collected and compared. After the therapy, the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), soluble vascular endothelial growth factor receptor-2 (sVEGFR2) and human epithelial growth factor receptor-2 (HER2) positive detection of Group I, Group II, and Group III were better than the control group (P<0.05). In addition, the therapeutic effects of Group I, Group II, and Group III were higher and the incidence of adverse reactions was lower than the control group (P<0.05). Targeted drugs have obvious clinical effects in gastric cancer. It can effectively inhibit tumor growth and reduce the occurrence of complications, which is worthy of extensive clinical application and promotion.

Inhibition of MIR4435-2HG on Invasion, Migration, and EMT of Gastric Carcinoma Cells by Mediating MiR-138-5p/Sox4 Axis.

BACKGROUND: The previous investigations have identified that long non-coding RNA (lncRNAs) act as crucial regulators in gastric carcinoma. However, the function of lncRNA MIR4435-2HG in the modulation of gastric carcinoma remains elusive. Here, we aimed to explore the role of MIR4435-2HG in gastric carcinoma. METHOD: The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) were applied to select the differently expressed lncRNAs in gastric carcinoma. The qRT-PCR was applied to analyze MIR4435-2HG expression in carcinoma tissues and cell lines. The effect of MIR4435-2HG on proliferation, invasion, migration, and apoptosis of gastric carcinoma cells was detected by Cell Counting Kit-8 (CCK-8) assays, transwell assays, and flow cytometry in vitro. A subcutaneous tumor model was constructed to examine the tumor growth of gastric carcinoma cells after knocking out MIR4435-2HG. RNA immunoprecipitation and luciferase reporting assays were applied to evaluate the interaction of MIR4435-2HG, miR-138-5p, and Sox4. RESULTS: The bioinformatics analysis based on TCGA and GEO databases indicated that MIR4435-2HG was obviously elevated in gastric carcinoma samples. The qRT-PCR analysis revealed that MIR4435-2HG was upregulated in clinical gastric carcinoma tissues and cells. The high expression of MIR4435-2HG is associated with the poor survival rate of patients. The knockout of MIR4435-2HG could repress the proliferation, invasion, migration, and epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and accelerate the apoptosis of gastric carcinoma cells. Moreover, the deletion of MIR4435-2HG was able to attenuate the tumor growth in vivo. Mechanically, we identified that MIR4435-2HG enhanced Sox4 expression by directly interacting with miR-138-5p as a competitive endogenous RNA (ceRNA) in gastric carcinoma cells, in which Sox4 was targeted by miR-138-5p. CONCLUSION: MIR4435-2HG is elevated in gastric carcinoma cells and contributes to the growth, metastasis, and EMT of gastric carcinoma cells by targeting miR-138-5p/Sox4 axis. MIR4435-2HG may be applied as a potential therapeutic target in gastric carcinoma.

Clinical study on the safety, efficacy, and prognosis of molecular targeted drug therapy for advanced gastric cancer.

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the safety, efficacy, and prognosis of advanced gastric cancer patients treated with molecular targeted drug therapy. METHODS: A total of 200 patients with metastatic gastric cancer admitted to our hospital from March 2018 to December 2018 were randomly selected and divided into the control group, group A, group B and group C, with 50 patients in each group. Patients in the control group received surgical treatment combined with conventional chemotherapy. Patients in group A were provided with surgical treatment combined with bevacizumab, patients in group B received surgical treatment combined with apatinib, and patients in group C received surgical treatment combined with recombinant human endostatin (RHE). Clinical efficacy, vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 2 (VEGFR-2) levels, Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST), sentinel lymph node (SLD) metastasis, and adverse reactions were compared among different groups of patients with metastatic gastric cancer. RESULTS: There were no significant differences in treatment efficiency, VEGF and VEGFR-2 levels, RECIST, SLD metastasis value and adverse reactions among group A, group B and group C, and the results were not statistically significant (P>0.05). The levels of VEGF, VEGFR-2, SLD metastasis, and adverse reactions in group A, B, and C were significantly lower than those in the control group (P<0.05). The effective rate of treatment and RECIST in group A, B and C were significantly higher than those in the control group, and the comparison results were statistically significant (P<0.05). CONCLUSION: Molecular targeted drug therapy is effective and safe in patients with advanced gastric cancer, and the prognosis of patients is satisfactory, without the proliferation and metastasis of cancer cells.

Association between cardiac changes and stress, and the effect of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-γ on stress-induced myocardial injury in mice.

This study was aimed to investigate the effect of stress induced by high-intensity exercises on the cardiovascular system. In the epidemiological investigation, 200 subjects (test group) engaged in special high-intensity exercises, and 97 who lived and worked in the same environment and conditions as those in the test group, but did not participate in the exercises served as controls. In the second part of the study, 50 mice were randomly divided into control group, exhaustive swimming group, white noise group, exhaustive swimming plus white noise group, and pioglitazone intervention group. The results showed that the plasma concentrations of the myocardial injury markers heart fatty acid-binding protein (H-FABP), C-reactive protein (CRP), ß-endorphin (ß-EP) and levels of psychological stress were significantly increased in test group as compared with control group; special high-intensity exercises resulted in a significant elevation of the incidence of cardiac arrhythmias. Animal experiments showed that the plasma levels of corticosterone (CORT) and troponin I (TnI) were raised while the level of SOD was reduced in exhaustive swimming group, white noise group, and exhaustive swimming plus white noise group. The expression levels of PPARγ mRNA and protein were decreased in myocardial tissues in these groups as well. HE staining showed no remarkable change in myocardial tissues in all the groups. Treatment with pioglitazone significantly decreased the plasma levels of TnI and CORT, while increased the level of SOD and the expression levels of PPARγ mRNA and protein. It was concluded that the high-intensity exercises may induce a heavy physical and psychological stress and predispose the subjects to accumulated fatigue and sleep deprivation; high-intensity exercises also increases the incidence of arrhythmias and myocardial injury. PPARγ may be involved in the physical and psychological changes induced by high-intensity exercises.