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So Xgeva is the same drug as Prolia (denosumab) and both are given to patients with metastasis of cancer to the bones.
Read the section here on "how Prolia works."
https://chemocare.com/chemotherapy/drug-info/Prolia.aspx
These meds are not chemo in the sense that they don't kill the cancer (though there has been some question about whether it can prevent spread to the bones, at some point). Instead they treat the effects of cancer on the bones and help prevent fractures from those effects.
For osteoporosis, denosumab would not be used with chemo drugs, of course, and would inhibit the resporption that causes bone loss in osteoporosis.