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BONE-METASTASIS


originator: Clara
origination date: 05/06/2002
subject field: medicine: disease
check date: 24/06/2002
checker: Pamela
URL: http://www.cancer.med.umich.edu/learn/bonemetsfacts.htm#a


Conceptual Structures
ISAMETASTATIC-CANCER
ANCESTORSALL
CHANGE-STATE
CHANGE-STATE-ANIMAL
DISEASE-EVENT
EVENT
HAVE-NEOPLASM
LIVING-EVENT
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-BY-STAGE-EXTENSION
METASTATIC-CANCER
PHYSICAL-EVENT


English
bone metastasisdefinition: bone cancer which has spread from another part of the body. Breast, lung, and prostate cancer account for more than 80% of bone metastases, and 50% of people with those cancers will develop bone metastases. Bone metastases can cause debilitating pain, bone fractures, impaired walking, and severe neurological impairment. Diagnosis procedures include bone scan, CT scan, MRI, and myelography. Treatments used in bone metastasis are radiation therapy, chemotherapy, and hormone therapy, although for most patients only palliative treatment is appropriate. (en)
number: singular
part of speech: noun
reliability code: 10
term type: main entry term

Spanish
metástasis óseadefinition: cáncer de huesos que se ha extendido desde otra parte del organismo. Los cánceres de mama, pulmón y próstata representan el 80% de las metástasis óseas y el 50% de los pacientes con estos tipos de cáncer desarrollan metástasis ósea, cuyos síntomas son dolor, fracturas, incapacidad para caminar y discapacidad neurológica grave. Las técnicas diagnósticas comprenden gammagrafía ósea, TAC, RMN y mielografía. El tratamiento de elección lo constituyen radioterapia, quimioterapia y terapia hormonal, aunque en la mayoría de los pacientes sólo se aconseja tratamiento paliativo. (es)
gender: feminine
number: singular
part of speech: noun
reliability code: 10
term type: main entry term