What is bone metastases?

Bone metastases, or metastatic bone disease, is a class of cancer metastases that results from primary tumor invasion to bone. The bone is a common site of metastasis for a number of different cancers including lung, breast, prostate, kidney, thyroid cancers, multiple myeloma among others.

How do members experience bone metastases?

Top 5 symptoms reported by people with bone metastases*

*Reports may be affected by other conditions and/or medication side effects. We ask about general symptoms (anxious mood, depressed mood, fatigue, pain, and stress) regardless of condition.

Top treatments taken by people for bone metastases*

Who has bone metastases on PatientsLikeMe?

Age

Age Proportion # of patients
<20 0
20s 0
30s 5
40s 18
50s 44
60s 46
70+ 56

Distribution of sex

Sex

Sex Proportion # of patients
Male 31
Female 137