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Which patients with mCRPC on ADT + advanced anti-AR do you treat with bisphosphonates or denosumab?

Did you change your practice given the SRE results in the control arm of EORTC 1333 at ASCO 2021? When using bisphosphonates or denosumab, what dosing and frequency do you use?
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Medical Oncology · Duke University School of Medicine
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Men with bone-metastatic CRPC face a relatively high rate of fractures due to bone loss as a result of potent AR inhibition and ongoing ADT but also due to lytic and sclerotic bone metastases which create focal weakening of the bone matrix despite the pathologic bone formation. The fracture rate was...

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Radiation Oncology · Florida Cancer Affiliates / The US Oncology Network
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Agree with @Dr. First Last.

For the radiation oncology audience, the cause of the higher number of deaths in the radium-223 group in ERA-223 fully remains unknown. Indeed, fractures are associated with increased mortality in various clinical settings; however, as a PI of ERA-223, most of the patient...

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