Recently, an article appeared in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, suggesting that patients treated with intravenous bisphosphonates are at greater risk of jaw or facial bone deterioration or infection. But the authors were not sure whether the bisphosphonates caused the bone problem, or whether these patients whose immune... Read more
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