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Prevention of Bone Metastases, 2012
Recent Results in Cancer Research Series, Vol. 192
Language: EnglishSubject for Prevention of Bone Metastases:
Publication date: 02-2014
234 p. · 17x24.4 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 01-2012
234 p. · 15.5x23.5 cm · Hardback
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Preclinical models that illuminate the bone metastasis cascade.- The role of bone microenvironment, vitamin D and calcium.- Bisphosphonates: Prevention of bone metastases in breast cancer.- Bisphosphonates: Prevention of bone metastases in lung cancer.- Bisphosphonates: Prevention of bone metastases in prostate cancer.- Bisphosphonates: Prevention of disease progression in patients with multiple myeloma.- Combinations of bisphosphonates and classical anticancer drugs - a preclinical perspective.- Special issues in the elderly patient.- Denosumab: First data and ongoing studies on the prevention of bone metastases.- Diagnostic and prognostic use of bone turnover markers.- Osteolytic and osteoblastic bone metastases: Two extremes of the same spectrum?.