Abstract: The invention relates to a method for increasing the toughness and/or stiffness of bone and/or reducing the likelihood and/or severity of bone fracture by administering a parathyroid hormone. The method can be employed to increase toughness or stiffness of bone at a site of a potential or actual trauma, such as the hip or spine of a person at risk of or suffering from osteoporosis. The method of the invention can reduce the incidence of vertebral fractures, reduce the incidence of multiple vertebral fractures, reduce the severity of vertebral fracture, and/or reduce the incidence of non-vertebral fracture.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for increasing the toughness and/or stiffness of bone and/or reducing the likelihood and/or severity of bone fracture by administering a parathyroid hormone. The method can be employed to increase toughness or stiffness of bone at a site of a potential or actual trauma, such as the hip or spine of a person at risk of or suffering from osteoporosis. The method of the invention can reduce the incidence of vertebral fracture, reduce the incidence of multiple vertebral fractures, reduce the severity of vertebral fracture, and/or reduce the incidence of non-vertebral fracture.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for monitoring effects of administration of a parathyroid hormone by determining levels of one or more markers of an activity of this hormone. Suitable markers of bone formation include one or more enzymes indicative of osteoblastic processes of bone formation, preferably bone specific alkaline phosphatase, and/or one or more products of collagen biosynthesis, preferably a procollagen I C-terminal propetide. Suitable markers of bone resorption and turnover include one or more products of collagen degradation, preferably an N-terminal telopeptide (NTX). In addition, methods for concurrently reducing the risk of both vertebral and non-vertebral bone fracture in a male human subject at risk of or having ossteoporosis are also disclosed, involving administration of human parathyroid hormone (amino acid sequence 1-34) without concurrent administration of an antiseropositive agent other than vitamin D or calcium.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for increasing the toughness and/or stiffness of bone and/or reducing the likelihood and/or severity of bone fracture by administering a parathyroid hormone. The method can be employed to increase toughness or stiffness of bone at a site of a potential or actual trauma, such as the hip or spine of a person at risk of or suffering from osteoporosis. The method of the invention can reduce the incidence of vertebral fracure, reduce the incidence of multiple vertebral fractures, reduce the severity of vertebral fracture, and/or reduce the incidence of non-vertebral fracture.

Abstract: Methods for decreasing the risk of cancer by administering a parathyroid hormone are disclosed. More particularly, the disclosed methods are for decreasing the risk of cancer in a person at risk of developing cancer, including persons at relatively low risk of osteoporosis, or at high risk of or suffering from osteoporosis. The methods are particularly effective for decreasing risks of breast or skin carcinoma.