EMA unit recommends limiting long-term use of calcitonin medicines
The European Medicines Agency said on Friday that its Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has recommended that calcitonin-containing medicines should only be used for short-term treatment, because of evidence that long-term use of these medicines is associated with an increased risk of cancer.
Moreover, it said that doctors should no longer prescribe calcitonin-containing medicines as nasal spray for the treatment of osteoporosis. Among such products are Fortical from Upsher-Smith Laboratories) and Miacalcin from Novartis. Calcitonin will only be available as a solution for injection and infusion, and should only be used for:
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