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CA Breast and Bone Metastases
by deepikanagpal, Mar 27, 2008 11:46PM
my mom has had a breast cancer 13 years back and she had a treament of surgery and chemotherapy and after that taken the tamoxifen 20 mg for 5 years. Now last year in Oct 2007, she has diagnosed with Bone metastases. For that she has received a two Raditherapy and 6 cycles of Chemotherapy. Now dr has told us to start the Arimidex 1mg once a day but I was reading the side effects on internet and one of the side effect of Arimidex is , it decraese the Bone density and could cause fracture (hip, spine etc). Please advise, in case of Bone Metastases, we should go with Arimidex or not ?Thanks.
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Chemotherapy would have to continue to prevent recurrence and spread of the cancer to other bones or other sites.
If your oncologist has advised arimidex then he/she must have done so after reviewing your mother's case in detail.
Also, the bone related side-effects are not seen in all the cases. You should still discuss this in detail with your doctor and clear out any doubts that you have.
Talk to him/her whether bisphosphonates would help in your mother's case.
Let us know what he/she advises.
Regards.