Joint Pain And Cancer

Joint Pain And Cancer.
Exercise might hand breast cancer survivors support the joint pain that is a side effect of their medications, researchers say at Dec 2013. A young study included patients who were taking aromatase inhibitor drugs, such as Arimidex (anastrozole), Femara (letrozole) and Aromasin (exemestane). Five years of healing with these drugs is recommended for survivors who had stages 1, 2 or 3 hormone receptor-positive chest cancers. This physique of the disease accounts for nearly 70 percent of newly diagnosed breast cancer cases.

Nearly half of those who carry these medications, however, experience joint pain and stiffness. These side things are the most common reason patients stop taking the drugs, the study authors said in an American Association for Cancer Research dope release. In this study, breast cancer survivors who were taking aromatase inhibitors and had mutual pain were divided randomly into two groups.