An imaging study, which might be an x-ray, bone scan, PET scan, MRI, or CT might show it, often combined with some symptom like pain in the area. The only definitive way to be 100% sure it's a metastasis is by a biopsy, but if someone has a known cancer and there are spots that look extremely consistent with bone metastases, we don't necessarily require a biopsy to go from being 99% to 100% sure.
Reply # - November 26, 2012, 07:33 PM
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An imaging study, which might be an x-ray, bone scan, PET scan, MRI, or CT might show it, often combined with some symptom like pain in the area. The only definitive way to be 100% sure it's a metastasis is by a biopsy, but if someone has a known cancer and there are spots that look extremely consistent with bone metastases, we don't necessarily require a biopsy to go from being 99% to 100% sure.
-Dr. West
Reply # - November 26, 2012, 09:47 PM
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Thank you once again!