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Shoring up Bones in Many Types of Cancer
While breaking a leg can be aggravating, a fracture in someone with cancer can be dangerous. Learn what doctors are doing to keep bones healthy in many types of cancers.
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Living Longer With Cancer: Preserving Quality of Life
There have been many advances in improving the outcome of people living with cancer. Although many people are living longer with their disease, complications arise when cancer spreads. Learn what can be done to surmount those obstacles and maintain a good quality of life.
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Caring for Bones During Cancer
People living with cancer often face the prospect of their cancer spreading to the bone, or of their cancer treatments damaging bone strength. Learn what can be done to protect bone from the complications of cancer.
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Coping with Bone Issues in Cancer
Life isn't easy for people living with cancer and especially for young patients like filmmaker Jessica Wing, whose illness and complications had restricted not only her movements, but also her life. After radiation and surgery, Jessica was thankful when her doctor suggested a medical treatment that has helped Jessica resume her routine.
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Prostate Cancer and Fragile Bones: What's the Link?
While breaking a bone is painful, a fracture in a person with cancer can have serious consequences. Learn how to deal with bone loss from prostate cancer.
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Prostate Cancer: A Survivor's Story
Bill Blair is a cancer researcher and a man with prostate cancer. Listen to how he fought both the disease and side effects of treatment with enthusiasm and good spirits.
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Bone Complications in Prostate Cancer
When prostate cancer spreads, a common site is bone. This results in weakened bones that cause pain and are prone to fracture. Learn how these bone complications are treated and even prevented, making one less thing a person with prostate cancer has to worry about.
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Bone Complications in Breast Cancer
Sometimes breast cancer can spread to bone. Tune in as experts discuss treatments that reduce pain and prevent bone complications in people with breast cancer.
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Bone Complications in Lung Cancer
Sometimes lung cancer can spread to bones, weakening them and causing pain. Learn about the latest treatments for the bone complications of lung cancer.
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Treating Bone Complications in Multiple Myeloma
Multiple myeloma is a type of blood cancer that develops in bone marrow. Learn what can be done to protect bones from complications of this disease.
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Cancer at a Distance: Understanding Metastasis
The word "cancer" encompasses many different complex diseases. One common source of cancer confusion is the definition of metastastic cancer.
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The Dangers of Bone Complications in Men With Prostate Cancer
When prostate cancer spreads, or metastasizes, its destination site is nearly always bone. A staggering 90% of men with prostate cancer eventually experience bone metastases, and though cancer in the bone introduces the risk of fracture, spinal compression and pain, it often goes unnoticed until malignancy is fairly well established.
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When Cancer Spreads to Bone
And as they grow in numbers, they spread to other tissues and organs. One area of the body that is particularly receptive to spreading cancer cells is the bone.
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Treating Weak Bones in Cancer Patients
Bone is one of the most popular destination sites for cancer cells that are migrating from one area in the body to another. And many treatments for cancer contribute to bone loss. There are ways, however, to avert some potential consequences of bone complications.
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The Dangers of Calcium Overload
We often hear about the virtues of calcium. But what if the body contains too much calcium? The condition is called hypercalcemia, and if left untreated, can wreak havoc in multiple organ systems in the body.
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Learning to Manage Cancer
We often hear about the virtues of calcium. But what if the body contains too much calcium? The condition is called hypercalcemia, and if left untreated, can wreak havoc in multiple organ systems in the body.
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When Breast Cancer Preys on Bone
When breast cancer spreads, it often invades bone. As bones weaken they become painful and are at risk of fracture. But there are strategies that can help stabilize bone and reduce the likelihood that they will break.
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