Bisphosphonates and bone metastases
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Treatment of bone metastases and bone pain with bisphosphonates.
Many solid tumors metastasize to bone, leading to debilitating skeletal complications such as intractable bone pain and pathologic fractures. Patients who experience a skeletal-related event (SRE) are at higher risk for subsequent events. After an SRE such as a pathologic fracture, spinal cord compression, or the requirement for orthopedic surgery or palliative radiation therapy, a patient's qu...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Cancer
سال: 1988
ISSN: 0007-0920,1532-1827
DOI: 10.1038/bjc.1988.257