Novartis is pleased to provide you with patient education materials for your patients with metastatic bone disease. Each of the articles are available in English, Español, Italiano, Deutsch and Français except where otherwise noted.
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—This document provides helpful tips for patients taking ZOMETA.
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—This document provides a brief summary about ZOMETA.
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—This information sheet clarifies that cancer can spread to bone; lists which cancers frequently have bone metastases, and describes how bone metastases affect the bone. Details of the symptoms, sequelae, and the most frequent locations of bone metastases are provided. Treatment of the resultant abnormal bone is elucidated.
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—How tumors cause bone pain is discussed. The multiple methods of treating pain from bone metastases are outlined, including direct therapies, indirect management, and the occasional need for surgery.
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—Normal calcium metabolism and how derangements can lead to hypercalcemia are explained. The frequency of occurrence of hypercalcemia, its symptoms, and available treatments are discussed.
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—This handout provides an understanding of pathologic fractures and their ramifications. The difference between normal bone and bone in areas of bone metastases is described. Bones most likely to fracture are listed, as are the consequences of these fractures.
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—A brief description of the anatomic relationship of the spinal cord and column is provided. This is followed by information on how the spinal cord can become compressed, the effects of spinal cord compression, and treatment of spinal cord compression.
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