Table 1.

Incidence and Prognosis of Bone Metastases

	Incidence of	Median Survival
Cancer Type	Advanced Disease, %	(Months)	5-Year Survival, %
Myeloma	95–100	20	10
Breast	65–75	24	20
Prostate	65–75	40	25
Lung	30–40	<6	<5
Kidney	20–25	6	10
Thyroid	60	48	40
Melanoma	14–45	<6	<5

Reprinted from Coleman RE³, with permission of Wiley-Liss, Inc., a subsidiary of John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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