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Accurate cancer staging is necessary to guide the clinician in selecting the most suitable therapy for each patient in the particular phase of the disease. Staging is especially important when considering surgical treatment, since the presence of metastases may alter the extent of the resection. The presence of bone metastases from a solid tumor classifies the cancer as stage IV (1), which is generally treated with systemic therapy, reserving radiation therapy (either external radiation and/or radiometabolic therapy with bone-seeking agents) as a palliative option for symptomatic lesions.
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Manca, G., Mariani, G., Robinson, L.A. (2008). Radioguided Bone Lesion Localization. In: Mariani, G., Giuliano, A.E., Strauss, H.W. (eds) Radioguided Surgery. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-38327-9_27
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