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What are bone metastasis and primary cancer?

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Dr. Philip Chao answered

Specializes in Radiology

The primary cancer: Is the place where the mets started from. The mets are secondary cancer.... Bone mets usually come from lung and colon and breast cancer.

Answered 1/19/2014

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