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Are there alternative therapies for paget's disease of bone?
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Probabably not: There no effective/curative therapies for paget's disease, conventional or otherwise.
Answered 7/20/2012
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PDOB: Bisphoshonates many times are used for Paget's disease of the bones if it is symptomatic- pain etc, and /or if elevation of alkaline phosphatase/or serum calcium. It can relieve the pain and hopefully slow down the rapid turn over of the bone.
Answered 9/28/2016
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