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| Osteolytic Skeletal Metastasis |
Osteotropic tumor metastasis is a property of malignant breast and prostate adenocarcinoma, as well as other cancer cell types. Some 70-90% of advanced breast cancer patients may experience bone pain, nerve compression, and orthopaedic complications stemming from osteolytic metasases.
During the past several years, a new focus in our laboratory on the cell biology of tumor metastasis to bone has led to studies of:
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