Interesting article/clinical trial/preventing bone mets stage I-III

[CherylS]

Found this article interesting. My onc is considering it.



http://www.komen.org/intradoc-cgi/id...Secondary=true

[Cathya]

Cheryl;

Yes, it is a very interesting article. I am going to bring it to my onc appt. next week. Thanks for adding it.

Best regards,

Cathya

[Ginagce]

Thanks for posting.

Ginagce

[jjfromcanada]

I found an article about a small study back in 2003 reporting a decrease in bone mets with chlodronate and asked my oncolgist about it then. He prescribed it and I have been taking it ever since.

No side effects and no bone mets so far.

Diagnosed April 2002, two primaries same breast, larger 4.5 cm. ER/PR-, HER2+, 4 lymph nodes, Grade III.

Go for it.

[suzan w]

Thanks for this article, I, too, will take it to my onc next week!

[saleboat]

Wow. Thanks for posting. I've been following this, but didn't know that a new study was out. Wonder if it is considered definitive. I know that clod is rx'd in Europe and Canada but not approved here. The studies thus far have been mixed-- breastcancer.org has a good summary of the findings. There was some evidence that this tx was not for hormonal negative bc, but hopefully that has been cleared-up with this study.


http://www.breastcancer.org/research...sphonates.html

[Lauriemn]

To Cheryl or anyone else that has asked their onc about use of bisphosphonates, Has anyone started taking any? I have my Herceptin next week and will ask my onc then. If you have, which one are you taking?


thanks, Laurie

[CherylS]

My onc. has ordered a bone density test for me because any sign of loss would justify one of the infusion bisphosphonates to insurance. Not that I want to have bone density loss, but honestly I am kind of hoping for a little so that I can get one of these drugs.