"How Common are Distant Skeletal Metastases from Prostate Cancer in the Absence of Pelvic or Lumbar Spine Metastases?"

According to an abstract submitted by the authors to the 84th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, held November 29 - December 4, 1998, in Chicago, Illinois, "Background: It is uncertain how frequently metastatic lesions to bone from prostate cancer initially involve regions far removed from the primary site. Very little - especially within the past 20 years - has appeared in the literature regarding the distribution of skeletal metastases in prostate cancer. Purpose: We sought to test the hypothesis that distant skeletal metastases from prostate cancer are extremely uncommon in the absence of more proximal metastases. ...

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