Cancer · UKMLA & AKT
Bone metastases
A free high-yield preview for the UKMLA Applied Knowledge Test, covering how to recognise this condition. The full SA Note notes add investigations, management and complications, with practice questions on this topic.
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- Women: breast (most common) > lung > other
- Men: prostate (most common) > lung > other
- Breast, prostate, and lung together account for >80% of all metastatic bone disease
In any woman with bone metastases of unknown origin, breast is the most likely primary until proven otherwise.
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