One of prostate cancer treatment with radiation is three dimensional. However radiation generated can cause fragile hip bones so easily cracked or broken. The risk of bone fragility in cancer treatment has actually been studied before. Treatment with androgen-suppressing drugs weaken bones in men. While radiation exposure trigger hip fracture in women.
To view the radiation risk in men, as quoted from HealthDay, Monday (05/31/2010), researchers looked at medical records of more than 166 000 cancer patients aged 66 years porstat upward. The data is then compared with the risk of bone fractures. The risk of hip fractures was observed in bone is directly exposed to radiation. As a comparison,
locations that are not directly exposed to radiation, namely of the wrist were also observed. After adjusting statistically, factors such as race and age are considered not affect the data. The result, researchers found the risk of hip fracture in the bone increased 58 percent while the wrist there is no increased risk.
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