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When I had my one and only injection of Prolia in 2014 within days I had a rare side effect...my sense of taste was totally off. I could taste things but, it was distorted. Coffee was especially foul. I belatedly looked Prolia up and read all sorts of complaints by users, including the fact that it contained chemo. I went to my pharmacist who did the injection and asked but he basically hemmed and hawed. I just made up my mind I was never going to take it again. More recently, a poster on this website mentioned that possibility also.
I'm also probably biased. My husband , who had prostate cancer going into his bones, was treated with a denosumab infusion by his oncologist and died a few weeks later when he took a slight fall and broke his femur in 3 places. This may be why I'm associating denosumab with chemo.
So, do I know there is chemo in denosumab? No, but maybe a professional who monitors this website should give a definitive answer.

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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.