Drugs Five Years Later

Abstract
Control of Paget''s disease of bone through treatment with agents that decrease bone resorption, calcitonins, diphosphonates and mithramycin, was studied. The pagetic lesion is not cured. Etidronate disodium is one of the diphosphonates. The clinical improvement attained with this drug has to be set against adverse effects, of which pain is probably the most bothersome in practice. Clinical remission can last as long as 2 yr after treatment is stopped.