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metastatic bone cancer life expectancy :: Article Creator What Happens With Bone Metastasis? When we talk about bone metastases, what we mean is breast cancer that has spread usually through the bloodstream and set up shop in the bone and has basically kind of created a spot in the bone that often you can see on a scan and sometimes for patients, you can feel. They feel bone pain. In rare instances when it grows quickly or aggressively or has been there for a while, it can even lead to things like fracture. The most common bones that it spreads to are spine, hips, and ribs. So very rarely do we see it like in the bones in the lower extremities, for example, or the bones of the hand. So bone is one of the most common sites of spread of breast cancer when it spreads outside the breasts and surrounding lymph nodes. And it can often happen shortly after diagnosis, or it can happen years down the line. The goals of treatment of bony metastases from br...