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OncologySevere
Bone Metastasis
Nuclear Medicine · Oncology
Severe
Severity
Common in advanced cancer — occurs in a majority of patients with advanced breast or prostate cancer
Prevalence
No
Contagious
Nuclear Medicine
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🔬Causes & Risk Factors
- 1Bone metastasis develops when cancer cells break away from the original tumour
- 2enter the bloodstream or lymphatic system
- 3and lodge within the bone marrow
- 4where they multiply and disrupt normal bone remodeling. Certain cancers
- 5particularly breast
- 6prostate
- 7lung
- 8kidney
- 9and thyroid cancer
- 10have a strong tendency to spread to bone due to specific molecular interactions between cancer cells and the bone marrow environment. The vertebrae
- 11pelvis
- 12ribs
- 13and long bones are the most commonly affected sites due to their rich blood supply.
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