For those of you who underwent three-dimensional radiation therapy for prostate cancer, should be careful because these therapies increase your risk of hip fractures.
For that, it's good after undergoing radiation therapy is your immediate treatment to strengthen the pelvic bone, so recommendations from researchers in their studies on exposure to the American Urological Association annual meeting in San Francisco.
The doctors actually knew that the treatment of prostate cancer with androgen suppression therapy methods that can weaken the bones of men. And three-dimensional radiation therapy seems to increase risk of hip fracture in women.
To know more clearly the risk of radiation therapy in men, the research team analyzed the medical records of more than 166 000 prostate cancer patients aged 66 years or more and compare the risk of hip fractures (which occur in areas exposed to radiation) with a wrist fracture (the area that is not exposed to radiation).
After statistically adjusting them with a number of factors, such as race and age, it did not affect the results of these studies. The research team found that radiation therapy has increased the risk of hip fractures by 58%, but did not boost the risk of wrist fracture.
By maintaining healthy bones become an important step for those who undergo radiation therapy for prostate cancer, particularly for androgen suppression therapy, said Dr. Jeff Holzbeierlein, spokesperson for the American Urological Association.
Referring to these data, it may be useful for prostate cancer patients to seek other therapies to prevent the occurrence of hip fracture.
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