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Bone Secondaries in Breast Cancer: The Solitary Metastasis

Department of Nuclear Medicine and Oncology, Guy's Hospital, London, England

Correspondence: For reprints contact: I. Fogelman, BSc., MD, FRCP, Dept. of Nuclear Medicine, Guy's Hospital, St. Thomas St., SE1 9RT London, England.

ABSTRACT

The bone scan findings of 160 consecutive cases of breast cancer metastatic to bone presenting to Guy's Hospital between 1982–1987 were retrospectively assessed for number and distribution of lesions. Twenty-one percent of patients relapsed with a solitary bone metastasis. The spine was the commonest site for both solitary (52% of cases) and multiple (87%) metastases. Solitary bone metastases are more common than previously thought.

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