Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) with orchiectomy or administration of LHRH agonists is standard treatment for metastatic prostate cancer (PC). Accelerated osteoporosis is one of the side effects of the resulting hypogonadism. Pamidronate disodium is a bisphos-phonate that is an inhibitor of osteoclast-induced bone resorption. Pamidronate has been shown to preserve bone mass in women with post-menopausal osteoporosis and in patients with glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis. We propose a study of men with PC on ADT who will be randomized to receive either pamidronate 90 mg IV or placebo NaCl every 3 months for 1 year. Bone mineral density and biochemical markers of bone turnover will be measured every 3 months during this period and comparisons of these indicators of osteoporosis will be made between the two treatment groups.
Rosenfield, Robert L; Ehrmann, David A (2016) The Pathogenesis of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS): The Hypothesis of PCOS as Functional Ovarian Hyperandrogenism Revisited. Endocr Rev 37:467-520 |
Garyu, Justin W; Meffre, Eric; Cotsapas, Chris et al. (2016) Progress and challenges for treating Type 1 diabetes. J Autoimmun 71:1-9 |
Maitland, Michael L; Xu, Chun-Fang; Cheng, Yu-Ching et al. (2015) Identification of a variant in KDR associated with serum VEGFR2 and pharmacodynamics of Pazopanib. Clin Cancer Res 21:365-72 |
Bershad, Anya K; Jaffe, Jerome H; Childs, Emma et al. (2015) Opioid partial agonist buprenorphine dampens responses to psychosocial stress in humans. Psychoneuroendocrinology 52:281-8 |
Fleming, Gini F; Schumm, Philip; Friberg, Greg et al. (2015) Circadian variation in plasma 5-fluorouracil concentrations during a 24 hour constant-rate infusion. BMC Cancer 15:69 |
Rosenfield, Robert L (2015) The Polycystic Ovary Morphology-Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Spectrum. J Pediatr Adolesc Gynecol 28:412-9 |
Refetoff, Samuel; Bassett, J H Duncan; Beck-Peccoz, Paolo et al. (2014) Classification and proposed nomenclature for inherited defects of thyroid hormone action, cell transport, and metabolism. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 99:768-70 |
Kirkpatrick, Matthew G; Francis, Sunday M; Lee, Royce et al. (2014) Plasma oxytocin concentrations following MDMA or intranasal oxytocin in humans. Psychoneuroendocrinology 46:23-31 |
Copinschi, Georges; Leproult, Rachel; Spiegel, Karine (2014) The important role of sleep in metabolism. Front Horm Res 42:59-72 |
Müller, Peter; Quintana, Fernando A; Rosner, Gary L et al. (2014) Bayesian inference for longitudinal data with non-parametric treatment effects. Biostatistics 15:341-52 |
Showing the most recent 10 out of 244 publications