More than half of those with stage IV breast cancer will have bone metastasis, most often in the spine, pelvis, ribs, arms, and legs. Doctors use two types of treatments for metastatic cancer in ...

Metastatic cancer is cancer that has spread from its primary site to a distant part of the body. People with well-controlled metastatic cancer can live for many years. Learn more.

Tagawa says cancer specialists, who use sophisticated imaging technologies such as PET scans, have gotten very good at finding even tiny bone metastases, which is valuable in diagnosing and ...

Bone imaging plays a pivotal role in the diagnosis, treatment planning and follow‐up of patients with cancer metastasis. Advances in hybrid imaging modalities, particularly single-photon ...

Years to decades after breast tumors have been removed, cancer may return or metastasize in other organs. Bone is frequently affected by metastasis and in the current study published in the journal ...

If your breast cancer spreads to other parts of your body, doctors will call it “metastatic.” ("Metastasize" means to spread.) It tends to go to the bones, lungs, liver, and brain. You’ll ...

Tagawa says cancer specialists, who use sophisticated imaging technologies such as PET scans, have gotten very good at finding even tiny bone metastases, which is valuable in diagnosing and ...

Bone Metastases: Most common, 37.5-39.8% of cases. ... Precise imaging is key in metastatic breast cancer to identify patients for aggressive therapy.

Imaging of these mice following the treatment then confirmed that RK-33 appeared to eliminate all evidence of bone metastases ...

Among the 17 patients with known metastatic cancer of bone studied 6 had had primary lesions of the breast, ... (x-ray films, taken over a period of five or more years, ...

Chest X-ray: Takes pictures of your chest to look for cancer that has spread from the breast to the lungs—a common site for breast cancer metastasis (spread). Bone scan: Detects if cancer has ...