The invention relates to the technical field of biological
medicine, and particularly discloses application of nefenavir. Nefinavir is used for preparing a
medicine for treating or preventing
castration-resistant
prostate cancer, and the
medicine can specifically up-regulate expression of DHCR7, induce
DNA damage of
tumor cells and activate a
cell cycle arrest pathway mediated by periodic
protein of the cells so as to inhibit key biological processes such as proliferation of the
tumor cells,
cholesterol metabolism and the like; especially, formation and amplification of multinuclear giant cells in
castration-resistant
prostate cancer can be effectively inhibited by up-regulating expression of DHCR7, so that malignant progression of multinuclear
giant cell mediated tumors and treatment of
drug resistance are blocked. Finally, the
castration-resistant
prostate cancer is prevented and treated, and the technical bottlenecks that an existing castration-resistant
prostate cancer treatment means is limited in
curative effect, and the
drug resistance and
metastasis capability mediated by multinuclear giant cells are difficult to inhibit in a targeted manner are solved.