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Editorial
. 2019 Jun;75(6):894-895.
doi: 10.1016/j.eururo.2019.01.026. Epub 2019 Jan 31.

Higher Risk of Fragility Fractures in Prostate Cancer Patients Treated with Combined Radium-223 and Abiraterone: Prednisone May Be the Culprit

Alberto Dalla Volta  1 , Anna Maria Formenti  1 , Alfredo Berruti  2
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Higher Risk of Fragility Fractures in Prostate Cancer Patients Treated with Combined Radium-223 and Abiraterone: Prednisone May Be the Culprit

Alberto Dalla Volta et al. Eur Urol. 2019 Jun.

Abstract

Results from the ERA 223 trial of abiraterone combined with radium-223 among men with chemotherapy-naïve castration-resistant prostate cancer and bone metastases show no improvement in survival free from symptomatic skeletal events. We hypothesize that this finding might be attributable to bone loss induced by the concomitantly administered prednisone.

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