Common bone drugs may reduce colon cancer risk
Wednesday, February 16, 2011 - 15:30
in Health & Medicine
An international team of researchers has found that the use of bisphosphonates - drugs already taken by millions of healthy women to prevent bone-loss - for more than one year was associated with a 50 percent reduction in the risk of postmenopausal colorectal cancer. The results were published this week in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.