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Bisphosphonate drugs such as Zometa are commonly used to reduce the risk of complications from bone metastases.
Cancer News 2010
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Bisphosphonate drugs such as Zometa are commonly used to reduce the risk of complications from bone metastases.
CancerConsultants 2009
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Bisphosphonates, which include brands such as Actonel, Zometa and Boniva, are used mainly by post-menopausal women as a way to prevent fractures that are associated with osteoporosis.
Rare Fractures Tied to Drug Amy Dockser Marcus 2011
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Patients receiving Prolia had a median time to first SRE of 20.7 months compared with 17.1 months for patients on Zometa.
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Some patients taking Prolia reported nausea while some on Zometa reported decreased appetite.
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Ltd., under which Teva won't begin selling generic versions of its bone-building drugs Zometa and Reclast in the U.S. until after patent protection for those drugs expires in March 2013.
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The Novartis bone-building drug Zometa improved survival for people with multiple myeloma in one study.
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Zometa was given as an infusion every four weeks while Prolia was given as an injection every four weeks.
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The study compared Prolia and Zometa at delaying or preventing so-called skeletal-related events, or SREs.
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There were 22 cases of ONJ seen among patients being treated with Prolia compared with 11 cases among patients in the Zometa group.
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