Endocrine Abstracts

Early detection, surgery and targeted treatments have seen remarkable improvements in cancer survival. Yet for many patients, cancers still relapse in distant organs after seemingly successful treatment of primary disease. The skeleton is one of the most common sites. Multiple myeloma develops directly in bone, whereas solid tumours, including breast and prostate cancers, spread to bone, often early in the clinical course, giving rise to incurable disease. It remains unclear h...