Overview
Bone metastasis is a symptom of metastatic cancer that happens when cancer from one place in your body spreads to your bones. It typically affects people with breast cancer, lung cancer and prostate cancer, but other types of cancer can also cause bone metastasis. There’s no cure for this condition, but there are treatments to ease symptoms and keep it from getting worse.
Bone metastasis is increasingly common in part because people are living longer with cancer. For example, one analysis showed the incidence of bone metastasis increased every year, from 3% in the first year after diagnosis to 8% within 10 years after diagnosis.
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