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Treatment For Bone Loss
Certain breast cancer treatments can speed up bone loss or cause you to lose more bone than you normally would:
Chemotherapy: Some chemotherapy medicines can have a direct effect on your bone health. In other situations, some women who are close to menopause and get chemotherapy may have significant bone loss because the chemotherapy causes early menopause. If chemotherapy pushes your body into menopause, bone loss may begin while you're still having treatment and continue after treatment is...
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FDA accepts application for new Osteoporosis med
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted an application for the new osteoporosis medication denosumab. Drugmaker Amgen has applied to... Read more »
Bone Health and Bone Loss
Source: Breastcancer.org
Your bones give your body its shape, help you move, and support your body. Your bones also help protect your heart, lungs, and brain. Even though... Read more »
Crohn's causes bone, muscle loss in kids
Children who have Crohn's disease have bone loss that researchers say does not completely resolve with treatment. Traditionally, bone loss in IBD... Read more »
Researchers discover bone-loss protein
Researchers at the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases may have found a piece of the osteoporosis puzzle. While studying people... Read more »
Humira helps reduce hand-bone loss due to RA: study
Researchers have found that treatment with the rheumatoid arthritis (RA) drug Humira helps reduce the loss of hand bone in people who suffer from the... Read more »
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