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Malignant metastatic tumors are the most common bone neoplasms. The skeleton is often affected by metastasic cancer, and the discovery of a long-bone metastasis may be the first symptom of the primary disease. Nearly every malignant neoplasm has been described as having the capability to metastasize to bone; tumors of breast, prostate, thyroid, lung, and kidney are the most common bone-seeking malignant lesions, and between 50 and 85% of affected patients will have bone metastasis at one point of their disease [1,2,3]. Breast and prostate cancer alone account for more than 80% of metastasic bone disease. The capacity of the neoplastic cells to invade bone is related to the histology and to the aggressiveness of the primary tumor.
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Allende, B.T., Allende, B.L. (2004). Long Bone Metastasis. In: Poitout, D.G. (eds) Biomechanics and Biomaterials in Orthopedics. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3774-0_36
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