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Byline: Jen Waters, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Margaret Lucas of Northeast has pain in her bones. Her discomfort started after eight months of chemotherapy for colon cancer.
Since her doctors are concerned that the treatment may have caused osteoporosis, Ms. Lucas, 76, recently underwent a dual emission X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) scan, also known as a bone density test, at Washington Hospital Center in Northwest.
"Some days my bones don't hurt. Some days they do," she says. "If I try to walk a block, I'll have to stop, but it doesn't hurt when I'm sitting or laying down."
Last week, Dr. Richard H. Carmona, U.S. surgeon general, issued the first-ever report on the state of bone health in the nation, "Bone Health and Osteoporosis: A Report of the Surgeon General." By the year 2020, one in two Americans older than age 50 will be at risk for fractures from osteoporosis or low bone mass, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in Southwest.
Currently about 10 million Americans over the age of 50 suffer from osteoporosis. In addition, another...
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