Compositions using iron excipients and their uses including for the treatment of cancer

A method of treating a patient having a cancer selected from the group consisting of lung cancer, breast cancer and prostate cancer, comprising identifying a bone defect in the patient caused by the cancer or resulting from treatment of the cancer, locally administering at the site of the bone defect in the cancer patient in need thereof a composition consisting of a calcium phosphate, an OGFR antagonist, an iron excipient, an optional curing agent, and at least one of the following:

• an acidifying agent, collagen, and a diluent saline solution, wherein the composition provides a therapeutically effective amount of the iron excipient that increases mineral formation at the site of the bone defect, and wherein the iron excipient is iron (III) sulphate.