Symptoms of Osteopenia
Reviewed: Dr. Gromatzky
5. Cancer Treatment
Cancer is one of the biggest killers in the world and it can take even the healthiest of people that are in their prime. We are learning more about the disease, however, and we are also getting better at treating it. In some cases, we are even able to cure it altogether, but treatment is not without its drawbacks.
Cancer treatments like chemotherapy can make the patient feel quite ill, and have some other symptoms. Radiotherapy also has some very unwelcome symptoms and, depending on how it used, it can cause the patient to lose bone density. Treatments like radiotherapy tend to be used as last resorts only.
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