Present Status of Patients with Metastatic Bone Tumor at National Yonago Hospital and Role of Orthopedists

Abstract

We analyzed present status of patients (pts) with metastatic bone tumor (MBT) and discussed role of orthopedists for them. In 5 years between 1983 and 1987, 16pts with MBT first visited our orthopedic clinic, while 50pts with MBT, more than three times of the 16, were treated at our clinics in the same period. Of the 50, MTB was diagnosed in 8 (57.1%) of 14 prostatic cancers, 5 (20.0%) of 25 breast cancers treated with surgery, 31 (14.6%) of 212 lung cancers and 6 (3.0%) of 203 gastric cancers. Role of orthopedic surgeons is to advise other doctors of the diagnosis of MBT and have a quality of their lives improve by selecting more reasonable treatments and evaluating the therapeutic response for bony lesions.