Researchers have found that an increasingly popular prostate cancer therapy increases the risk of broken bones in older men, further complicating how best to treat the disease.

The study by University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston researchers blamed hormone-suppressing drugs for more than 3,000 fractures suffered every year by American men with prostate cancer. Such fractures often lead to death.

“This brings new information that doctors should discuss with their patients,” said Dr. Vahakn Shahinian, a UTMB assistant professor of internal medicine and lead investigator of the study.

The study’s findings were reported in Thursday’s New England Journal of Medicine.

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