Prevalence of osteoporosis and osteopenia among cancer patients and its risk factors: a retrospective monocentric study

Pan Afr Med J. 2023 Apr 17:44:179. doi: 10.11604/pamj.2023.44.179.36365. eCollection 2023.

Ahmed Badheeb^{1

2}, Mohamed Al Sulieman³, Faisal Ahmed⁴, Ahmed Asiri³, Mohamed Badheeb^{2

5}

¹ Department of Oncology, King Khalid Hospital, Najran, Saudi Arabia.
² Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Hadhramaut University, Hadhramaut, Yemen.
³ Department of Internal Medicine, King Khalid Hospital, Najran, Saudi Arabia.
⁴ Urology Research Center, Al-Thora General Hospital, Department of Urology, School of Medicine, Ibb University of Medical Sciences, Ibb, Yemen.
⁵ Department of General Medicine, King Khalid Hospital, Najran, Saudi Arabia.

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Keywords: Osteoporosis; cancer; chemotherapy; hormone therapy; osteopenia.

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