Your Article Summary
Alendronate decreases the fracture risk in patients with prostate cancer on androgen-deprivation therapy and with severe osteopenia or osteoporosis
BJU International, 06/24/09
Planas J et al. - Treatment with once-weekly 70 mg alendronate significantly improved the BMD at the lumbar spine and femoral neck in patients with prostate cancer with severe osteopenia or osteoporosis and on ADT, and significantly decreased the risk of femoral neck fracture.
Related Articles
Risk of dying from prostate cancer in men randomized to screening
Cancer, 10/13/09
Relevance Score: 72%
Validation in a Multiple Urology Practice Cohort of the Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial Calculator for Predicting Prostate Cancer Detection
The Journal of Urology, 11/13/09
Relevance Score: 71%
A prospective study of lifetime physical activity and prostate cancer incidence and mortality
British Journal of Cancer, 11/02/09
Relevance Score: 71%
Association of 17 prostate cancer susceptibility loci with prostate cancer risk in Chinese men
The Prostate, 11/02/09
Relevance Score: 71%
Prostate specific antigen for early detection of prostate cancer: longitudinal study
British Medical Journal, 10/08/09
Relevance Score: 71%
Today in Bone Metabolism...keeping you current
Receive free subspecialty "5-minute updates" via email
Use of oral bisphosphonates and risk of venous thromboembolism: A population-based case-control study
Osteoporosis International, 12/15/09
Association of medication attitudes with non-persistence and non-compliance with medication to prevent fractures
Osteoporosis International, 12/15/09
Protocol for the Osteoporosis Choice trial. A pilot randomized trial of a decision aid in primary care practice
Trials, 12/14/09
Today in Trauma...keeping you current
Receive free subspecialty "5-minute updates" via email
Development of the Radiographic Union Score for Tibial Fractures for the Assessment of Tibial Fracture Healing After Intramedullary Fixation
Journal of Trauma, 12/15/09
A Comparison of Prediction Models for Fractures in Older Women
Archives of Internal Medicine, 12/15/09
The hip fracture incidence curve is shifting to the right
Acta Orthopaedica, 12/15/09

See Latest Articles