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Topic: Bone Health (view all topics)

Tags for topic Bone Health:

• Actonel
• Adjuvant
• Aredia
• Bonefos
• Boniva
• Fosamax
• Prophylactic
• Reclast
• Zometa

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• Vitamin D Levels May Be Reason Some Women Benefit from Zometa Added to Chemo

  Published on January 7, 2013 at 5:40 am

  • Tags: Zometa and Adjuvant

  New results from a large study suggest that postmenopausal women diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer who had adequate vitamin D levels got more benefits from Zometa combined with chemotherapy than women who had low vitamin D levels.

• Oral Bisphosphonates Don’t Seem to Reduce Recurrence Risk

  Published on December 12, 2011 at 12:00 am

  • Tags: Bone Health, Bonefos, Boniva, and Adjuvant

  Two studies found that two oral bisphosphonates didn't reduce recurrence risk for women diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer.

• Zometa Can Help Reduce Recurrence Risk of Hormone-Receptor-Positive Disease

  Published on December 10, 2011 at 12:00 am

  • Tags: Bone Health, Zometa, and Adjuvant

  Results from three studies all suggest that Zometa can help reduce the risk of cancer recurrence when it's started right after surgery to treat hormone-receptor-positive early-stage breast cancer in postmenopausal and older premenopausal women.