Table 1.

Incidence of skeletal metastases within bone-metastatic cancers.

Incidence of Skeletal Metastases from Autopsy Studies
		Incidence of Bone Metastases (%)
Primary Tumour	Studies	Median	Range
Breast	5	73	47–85
Prostate	6	68	33–85
Thyroid	4	42	28–60
Kidney	3	35	33–40
Bronchus	4	36	30–55
Oesophagus	3	6	5–7
Gastrointestinal Tract	4	5	3–11
Rectum	3	11	8–13

Modified from Coleman-RE [1].