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When blood test and prostate exams comes back normal, could you still have bone cancer of the iliac?
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Not sure: Bone cancer has very specific imaging findings as well as symptoms. Metastatic prostate cancer to bone is a late stage disease phenomenon, and most unlikely in a 49 year old. Not sure which blood tests were normal (psa, alkaline phosphotase, ?), so am not positive how to answer this.
Answered 10/25/2012
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