Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Skeletal fragility is an important clinical issue in women with early-stage breast cancer and men with non-metastatic prostate cancer under hormonal hormone deprivation therapies (HDTs). Vertebral fractures (VFs) have been reported in a remarkable number of subjects exposed to HDT especially when the diagnosis of fractures is performed by a radiological and morphometric approach. Notably, prediction of fractures in this clinical setting is a challenge and determina...