Journal of Oncology
Volume 2017 (2017), Article ID 3432604, 1 page
https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/3432604

Corrigendum

Corrigendum to “The Current Practice of Screening, Prevention, and Treatment of Androgen-Deprivation-Therapy Induced Osteoporosis in Patients with Prostate Cancer”

Humaid O. Al-Shamsi,¹ Arthur N. Lau,² Kartika Malik,³ Abdulaziz Alamri,⁴ George Ioannidis,⁵ Tom Corbett,⁶ J. D. Adachi,⁷ and Alexandra Papaioannou⁸

¹Division of Medical Oncology, Department of Medicine, Juravinski Cancer Centre, McMaster University Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, ON, Canada L8V 5C2
²Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, St. Joseph Hospital, McMaster University Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, ON, Canada L8N 1Y2
³Division of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada M5S 2E9
⁴Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, St. Joseph Hospital, McMaster University Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, ON, Canada L8N 1Y2
⁵Department of Medicine, McMaster University Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, ON, Canada L8S 4K1
⁶Division of Radiation Oncology, Department of Oncology, Juravinski Cancer Centre, McMaster University Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, ON, Canada L8V 5C2
⁷Division of Medicine, Department of Medicine, McMaster University Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, ON, Canada L8N 1Y2
⁸Division of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine, McMaster University Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, ON, Canada L8S 4K1

Correspondence should be addressed to Humaid O. Al-Shamsi; humaid.al-shamsi@medportal.ca

Received 6 June 2017; Accepted 28 June 2017; Published 3 December 2017

Copyright © 2017 Humaid O. Al-Shamsi et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

In the article titled “The Current Practice of Screening, Prevention, and Treatment of Androgen-Deprivation-Therapy Induced Osteoporosis in Patients with Prostate Cancer” [1], there was an error regarding the FRAX® tool, which should be clarified as follows.

The article notes: “As a result of the potential consequences of ADT, expert guideline recommendations advocate for assessing men prescribed ADT for osteoporosis and to estimate the baseline fracture risk using an assessment tool, such as the World Health Organization fracture risk assessment tool ”. However, the World Health Organization (WHO) did not develop, test, or endorse the FRAX® tool or its recommendations [2]. The metabolic bone disease unit at the University of Sheffield that developed FRAX® was a WHO Collaborating Centre from 1991 to 2010, but treatment guidelines must undergo a formal process before they can be endorsed by the WHO.

References

H. O. Al-Shamsi, A. N. Lau, K. Malik et al., “The current practice of screening, prevention, and treatment of androgen-deprivation-therapy induced osteoporosis in patients with prostate cancer,” Journal of Oncology, Article ID 958596, 2012.

N. Ford, S. L. Norris, and S. R. Hill, “Clarifying WHO’s position on the FRAX® tool for fracture prediction,” Bulletin of the World Health Organization, vol. 94, no. 12, p. 862, 2016.