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Suffering From Bone And Prostate Cancer, How To Reduce Back Pain And Swelling In Limbs?
My husband is in the hospital right with vary swelen feet hanbs legs and stoumick and his back hurts to he has bone cancer from prostreat cancer thay have beentreating him with steroids and he is also a diabetic and his sugar has bee vary high so they have been giving him more and more metforman. And he said the have. Ot given him any for four days and he is now nt hurting in his Ba k and the swelling is starting to go away
Sat, 25 Jan 2014
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Thanks for your query.
Treating bone metastases with only steroids will not be helpful. There are other medications like hormonal therapy, bisphosphonates, analgesics, local radiotherapy, etc which may be used in various combinations to give him some relief. Please talk to your doctor regarding these options.
Hope this helps.
Regards
Thanks for your query.
Treating bone metastases with only steroids will not be helpful. There are other medications like hormonal therapy, bisphosphonates, analgesics, local radiotherapy, etc which may be used in various combinations to give him some relief. Please talk to your doctor regarding these options.
Hope this helps.
Regards
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