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    Bone metastasis, or osseous metastatic disease, is a category of cancer metastases that result from primary tumor invasions into bones. Bone-originating...
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    breath) Liver metastasis: hepatomegaly (enlarged liver), nausea and jaundice Bone metastasis: bone pain, fracture of affected bones Brain metastasis: neurological...
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    cancer of the bone or metastasis, location of bone inflammation and fractures (that may not be visible in traditional X-ray images), and bone infection (osteomyelitis)...
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    apoptosis of tumour cells. Bone is a common site of metastasis in cancers such as breast, prostate and lung cancer. In osteolytic bone metastases, tumour cells...
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    that exhibit bone fragility. Bisphosphonates are used to treat osteoporosis, osteitis deformans (Paget's disease of the bone), bone metastasis (with or without...
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  • cancer causes hypercalcemia is via local osteolysis due to metastasis to bone. Tumor bone metastasis releases local cytokines including IL-6, IL-8, IL-11,...
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    In breast cancer, spinal-cord compression occurs when a bone metastasis or spinal metastasis begins to push on the spinal cord, resulting in inflammation...
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  • cases of bone cancer is systemic radioisotope therapy, where the radioisotopes target sections of the bone specifically undergoing metastasis. In the case...
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    Cancer (section Metastasis)
    Metastasis is common in the late stages of cancer and it can occur via the blood or the lymphatic system or both. The typical steps in metastasis are...
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  • Antonarakis, Emmanuel S. (October 2012). "Bone-targeting radiopharmaceuticals for the treatment of prostate cancer with bone metastases". Cancer Letters. 323 (2):...
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