I believe this to be a very good resource for an important concern for all men with any type of PCa. The statistics are somewhat staggering, and apparently a great many Docs are giving this topic too brief a mention during consults. I recently advised a GP of my PCa situation, and my request for DEXA scan was approved. My results were not desireable at all....unfavorable " t- scores" and FRAX risk of major fracture of 13% and of hip fracture approx 7%. My blood Vit D had recently tested at severely low, though blood calcium normal. I have started Ca and D supplements...obviously D should have been started much earlier, but I have learned that measuring D is not, for some reason, standard of care for preventive health measures?? Going into ADT + radiation, and with a relatively poor bone scan test result ( osteopenic, though not yet osteoporosis), drug therapy might be called for......but side effects??
I would say all men with PCa can benefit from taking a look at this. The author's credentials are impressive.........
" Written by: Fred Saad, MD, FRCS, is Professor and Chairman of Urology and Director of G-U Oncology at the University of Montreal Hospital Centers (CHUM). He holds the U of M Endowed Chair in Prostate Cancer Research and is Director of the molecular oncology research lab in Prostate Cancer. He is also Director of clinical cancer research at the CHUM. Between 2007-2013 he served as Chair of the National Cancer Institute of Canada G-U Group and the Canadian Urologic Oncology Group. Dr Saad has been intimately involved in almost every important clinical trial in castration resistant prostate cancer over the last 20 years and presently sits on 6 steering committees of international clinical trials. He leads the Canadian Prostate Cancer Biomarker Network and is a principal investigator with the Movember bio-marker initiatives in prostate cancer.
