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Bone Density Changes during Adjuvant Aromatase Inhibitor Treatment in Breast Cancer Patients: Single Centre Experience

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World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, September 7 - 12, 2009, Munich, Germany

Part of the book series: IFMBE Proceedings ((IFMBE,volume 25/2))

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Abstract

Adjuvant aromatase inhibitors (AI) therapy in breast cancer accelerates bone loss resulting in increased incidence of fracture. We evaluated the effect of AI on bone density changes among breast cancer patients in our cancer centre.

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  1. ABM Univeristy Trust, UK

    Mohammad Almatari, Maung Moe & Parvaiz Ali

  2. Swansea University, UK

    Peter Willshaw

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  1. Inst. Biomedizinische Technik, Univ. Karlsruhe, Kaiserstr. 12, 76128, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Olaf Dössel

  2. Abt. Medizinische Physik in der Strahlentherapie, Deutsche Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany

    Wolfgang C. Schlegel

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Almatari, M., Moe, M., Ali, P., Willshaw, P. (2009). Bone Density Changes during Adjuvant Aromatase Inhibitor Treatment in Breast Cancer Patients: Single Centre Experience. In: Dössel, O., Schlegel, W.C. (eds) World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, September 7 - 12, 2009, Munich, Germany. IFMBE Proceedings, vol 25/2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03879-2_259

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