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Article: Bone metastases: can you teach an old drug new tricks?
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- May 13, 2008
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M2 PRESSWIRE-13 May 2008-DATAMONITOR: Bone metastases: can you teach an old drug new tricks?(C)1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
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London -- Advanced cancers become largely incurable once they have spread, or metastasized to the bone. Patients affected with bone metastases require supportive therapy in addition to anti-cancer treatment to manage skeletal complications. But while the bisphosphonates currently used to treat bone metastases reduce the risk of skeletal complications such as bone pain and fractures, they offer no survival benefit in the majority of patients. However, bisphosphonates may effectively prevent bone metastases in early ...