Cancer treatment may result in bone loss
Thursday, November 13, 2008 - 13:14
in Health & Medicine
Montreal, November 13, 2008 - A new cross-Canada study has found that breast and prostate cancer treatment can foster bone loss. In the online edition of the Journal of Clinical Oncology, the scientists explain how loss of bone mass might affect 46,000 people diagnosed with breast and prostate cancer each year* and place them at increased risk for osteoporosis and fractures.
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