Learn how prostate cancer can affect bone health, including bone metastases, bone loss, fractures, and pain. Find information on treatments that protect bones and support care for advanced disease.
Osteoporosis (Bone Loss)
Osteoporosis is a condition in which bones become weak, less dense, and more likely to break.
Most people, and even some doctors, think of osteoporosis as a women’s disease, but millions of men develop it, too.
Men who break bones are less likely than women to be treated for bone disease, even though treatment can help prevent broken bones in the future.
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Many reports have revealed that weight-bearing exercise can help to slow bone loss, while other reports show exercise can build bone. By doing exercises, which put stress on bones, bone forming cells are stimulated to increase greater calcium deposits. The pushing and pulling with your bones during strength and power training causes stress and results in stronger and denser bones.
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The link between Prostate Cancer and Bone Loss
A very important, but often overlooked, aspect of treating Prostate Cancer in patients is the management of bone health. Patients receiving androgen deprivation (hormone) therapy to treat their disease are at an increased risk to develop osteoporosis and experience fractures and other skeletal related events from weakened bones.
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