Bone metastases
of a cancer from its site of origin to a bone or multiple bones. This usually occurs due to cancer cells seeding distant locations via the bloodstream.
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What does bone metastases cause?
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What are the tests for bone metastases?
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Is it true not all bone metastases give you pain?
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I'm curious. What symptoms go along with bone metastases?
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What is the definition or description of: Bone metastases?
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I've heard different things. What exactly is bone metastases?
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Does X-ray detect bone metastases?
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What's the life span of bone metastases ?
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How good is radiation on bone metastases?
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How effective is radiation for bone metastases?
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What are the odds of survival for patients with bone metastases?
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What are ill-defined osteolytic lesions in bone metastases? How do you treat them?
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Help please? I want to know what are illdefined osteolytic lesions in bone metastases?
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A 30-year old asked:
If one has bone metastases would blood work show up negative?
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A 36-year old asked:
How long can you live with multiple bone metastases from cancer?
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Is there anything that can detect bone metastases besides a bone density scan?
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Does the doctor need to do to tests to be sure if the diagnosis is bone metastases?
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A 33-year old asked:
For bone metastases what are the benefits and costs of local infiltration of anesthetic over palliative radiation?
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How effective is radiation therapy on bone metastases?
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For bone metastases what are the pros/cons of local anesthetic over palliative radiation?
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What is the life expectancy of a person with multiple bone metastases from prostate cancer?
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A 44-year old female asked:
What does the pain from bone metastases feel like what other symptoms are there and any specific to metastases from breast cancer?
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A 42-year old asked:
My aunt is recently diagnosed with secondary bone metastases from breast cancer, which sounds really bad?
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What can we expect from a stage 4 lung cancer patient with bone metastases- what can be done in case all treatments are ruled out?
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A 70-year old male asked:
What are the possibilities of bone cancer or metastases form throat cancer that had a primary in the left tonsil. Stage 4in tonsil and 3 lymph nodes/ ?
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Describe the features of metastases to the bone.?
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A 53-year old female asked:
What does sclerotic metastases cannot be ruled out. Show I hav 5mm or less throughout the iliac bones.
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A 59-year old female asked:
What does "slight" mean on the result from my bone scan? Slight increase in prominence in left eighth rib and right iliac osseous metastases.
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Does anastrozole tablets for breast cancer also treat bone cancer in women with metastases?
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Can radiation therapy help treat lung cancer metastases to the liver and bones?
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