This is
interesting. A massive retrospective
study of Australian women seems to show that using bone loss medicines
containing bisphosphonates also helps prevent ovarian cancer – statistically, Unfortunately, the news article I found gives
no numerical verification of this hypothesis, nor any discussion of why it
might be true. Of course, this is
merely a correlation, not a proven case of cause-and-effect. It may not mean much
– although obviously ever little bit of data helps. For instance, the following is possible,
although very unlikely: (1) women who
fear osteoporosis tend to drink more milk; (2) something in milk helps prevent
OVCA.
I wish I
could give you a link to this little article, but I can’t. The work comes out of Queensland University
and was published yesterday. Maybe you
can find it.
In passing,
another recent news article purports to show that vitamin D helps retard the spread
of cancer. That being the case, I am
about to go out on my balcony and “bag some rays”, as my student Dr. Steve Sheriff
was wont to say.
Ha! I know there is a special office full of computer experts somewhere dedicated to making things hard for me, but sometimes I out-fox ‘em. Here is the link I couldn’t give you ‘tother day. Read it at your leisure.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.futurity.org/ovarian-cancer-bone-loss-medication-osteoporosis-2756072/