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Chemotherapy- or radiotherapy-mediated metastasis of cancer cells to bones. Due to upregulation of several homing and pro-survival factors in response to BM microenvironment damage, circulating cancer cells may find a permissive environment in BM, which can originate growth of a bone metastasis. Similar mechanism may also operate in pelvic cavity after chemotherapy and lead to spread of ovarian cancer.
