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It is used at a dosage of 60 mg/day for both the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis. [12] In the case of either osteoporosis prevention or treatment, supplemental calcium and vitamin D should be added to the diet if daily intake is inadequate. [13] Raloxifene is used to reduce the risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal
Raloxifene is used for the prevention and treatment of postmenopausal osteoporosis and breast cancer prevention in high-risk postmenopausal women with osteoporosis. [5] Preclinical and clinical reports suggest that it is considerably less potent than estrogen for the treatment of osteoporosis.
Homeopathic name Substance Common name Aconite [1] Aconitum napellus: Monkshood, monk's blood, fuzi, wolf's bane Aesculus hippocastanum [1] Aesculus hippocastanum: Horse-chestnut Allium cepa [1] Onion: Aloeaceae [2] Aloe succotrina: Aloe: Arnica [3] Arnica montana: Leopard's bane Baptisia [1] Baptisia tinctoria: Wild indigo, horseflyweed ...
An increase in disease-free survival (DFS) was found in the ABCSG-12 trial, in which 1,803 premenopausal women with endocrine-responsive early breast cancer received anastrozole with zoledronic acid. [29] A retrospective analysis of the AZURE trial data revealed a DFS survival advantage, particularly where estrogen had been reduced. [30]
For women already taking the medication, it can be used to treat osteoporosis, although it is not recommended solely for this use. [26] Some lesser known uses are as a means of high-dose estrogen therapy in the treatment of breast cancer in both women and men and in the treatment of prostate cancer in men.
Cessation of unpleasant treatment – often homeopaths recommend patients stop getting medical treatment such as surgery or drugs, which can cause unpleasant side-effects; improvements are attributed to homeopathy when the actual cause is the cessation of the treatment causing side-effects in the first place, but the underlying disease remains ...
In other countries, such as Belgium, homeopathy is not covered. In Austria, the public health service requires scientific proof of effectiveness in order to reimburse medical treatments and homeopathy is listed as not reimbursable, [238] but exceptions can be made; [239] private health insurance policies sometimes include homeopathic treatments ...
The use of high-dose estrogen therapy in breast cancer has mostly been superseded by antiestrogen therapy due to the improved safety profile of the latter. [17] High-dose estrogen therapy was the standard of care for the palliative treatment of breast cancer in women up to the late 1970s or early 1980s. [18