Post-operative breast cancer patients diagnosed with skeletal metastasis without bone pain had fewer skeletal-related events and deaths than those with bone pain |
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| Authors: | Mitsuru Koizumi Masataka Yoshimoto Fujio Kasumi Takuji Iwase Etsuro Ogata |
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| Affiliation: | (1) Molecular Imaging Center, National Institutes of Radiological Sciences, Anagawa 4-9-1, Inage-ku Chiba, 263-8555, Japan;(2) Department of Nuclear Medicine, Cancer Institute Hospital, Tokyo 170-8455, Japan;(3) Department of Breast Surgery, Cancer Institute Hospital, Tokyo 170-8455, Japan;(4) Department of Internal Medicine, Cancer Institute Hospital, Tokyo 170-8455, Japan;(5) Breast Center, IUHW Mita Hospital, Tokyo 108-8329, Japan;(6) Breast Center, Juntendo University, Tokyo 113-8431, Japan |
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Background Skeletal metastases are often accompanied by bone pain. To investigate the clinical meaning of bone pain associated with skeletal metastasis in breast cancer patients after surgery, we explored whether the presence of bone pain was due to skeletal-related events (SREs) or survival (cause specific death, CSD), retrospectively. |
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