Bisphosphonates are a class of medications that help treat osteoporosis. Doctors also prescribe them for other conditions that affect the density of your bones.
Bisphosphonates are a group of drugs that can be used to help protect bones against the effects of some cancers and to treat some bone conditions. Sometimes bisphosphonates are called bone strengthening or bone hardening treatments.
Bisphosphonates are primary agents in the current pharmacological arsenal against osteoclast-mediated bone loss due to osteoporosis, Paget disease of bone, malignancies metastatic to bone, multiple myeloma, and hypercalcemia of malignancy.
Bisphosphonates are drugs used to treat several conditions associated with bone loss, including osteopenia, osteoporosis, Paget’s disease, and certain bone cancers.