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Metastatic Breast Cancer to Bone with Pathologic Fracture

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Created: October 13, 2005

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Breast Cancer in Bone

In this patient with metastatic breast cancer, the cancer has spread to the bone. You can see the bone at the top of the femur (thigh bone) on the left side of the image looks thinner than on the right side of the image. The cause of the weakened bone is the breast cancer invading the bone.

Often at this stage, a surgeon will operate on the patient to help support the bone with a metal rod. In this patient, however, she did not have surgery. Continue on to see what happened...

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