Causes Of Osteolysis

Malignancies And Osteolysis

One of the phases of developing cancer may be a bone metastasis, which occurs when a malignancy occurs elsewhere in the body spreads to the bone and locates there. The areas where malignancies are most likely to spread to the bone are the prostate, lung, and breast. So, for instance, a prostate malignancy that has spread to the bone is not a bone malignancy, but a prostate malignancy that has metastasized to the bone. When a malignancy spreads to the bone, the bones become damaged (osteolysis). Malignancy-caused osteolysis causes small holes in the bone, which cause pain as well as causing the bone to become weaker.

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