zometa infusion 2 x per year to prevent bone metastases (breast cancer) & to manage osteoporosis (most recent yesterday)
medrol oral 8 days to reduce acute inflammation spinal stenosis 4 levels next week
now surgery cervical spine is advised
will either of these two meds complicate surgery?
Are zometa + corticosteroids (+tamoxifen) okay prior to surgery cervical spine?
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- 5 Aug 2010 by kykkotissa
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- medrol, zometa, breast cancer, osteoporosis, cancer, breast cancer -- adjuvant, spondylolisthesis, tamoxifen, chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy, spinal cord trauma, surgery
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