How is bone cancer detected?

Bone tumors are more often caused by cancer that has spread to the bone from some other part of the body. This is a bone metastasis. A single bone metastasis can have the same signs and symptoms as a primary bone tumor, so many doctors require a biopsy to diagnose a patient's first bone metastasis. read more

Bone tumors are more often caused by cancer that has spread to the bone from some other part of the body. This is a bone metastasis. A single bone metastasis can have the same signs and symptoms as a primary bone tumor, so many doctors require a biopsy to diagnose a patient’s first bone metastasis. read more

In case of bone cancer it can help in detection of bone tumors. It is one of the most widely used tests in detection of bone cancers, that, show hardened bone tumors. If soft tissues around the bone are to be observed barium sallow x-ray or fluoroscopic x-ray is taken. read more

When cancer is detected in bones, it either originated in the bones (as in primary bone cancer) or has spread to the bone after originating elsewhere (a metastasis or secondary cancer that spread to the bones). read more