Erschienen in:
16.01.2018 | Editorial
Recent Trends and Advances in Cancer-Induced Bone Disease
verfasst von:
Aymen I. Idris
Erschienen in:
Calcified Tissue International
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Ausgabe 2/2018
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Excerpt
In recent years, cancer-induced bone disease (CIBD) has become an important area of research to many, and scientific research in this area has been growing within the bone research community. The source of this enthusiasm was the expectation that incidences of skeletal related events in cancer patients would increase, as cancer becomes a chronic disease. Furthermore, drug treatments that are available in clinical practice for advanced cancer patients are effective at slowing disease progression and its recurrence; however, bone metastasis, spread of primary bone cancer to distant organs and bone pain still remain serious clinical problems, and are often inadequately managed in patients. …