A drug that is used to treat hypercalcemia (too much calcium in the blood) and cancer that has spread to the bones. It belongs to the family of drugs called bisphosphonates.
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(pam″ĭ-dro´nāt) an inhibitor of bone resorption, used to treat malignancy-associated hypercalcemia, Paget disease of bone, and osteolytic metastasis secondary to breast cancer or myeloma; used as the disodium salt. Complexed with technetium 99m, it is used in bone imaging.
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