Surgical Treatment of Bone Metastases: 2nd Edition
A special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694). This special issue belongs to the section "Cancer Therapy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 29 August 2025 | Viewed by 1974
Special Issue Editor
Interests: orthopedic oncology; bone sarcomas; soft tissue sarcomas; bone metastases
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Dear Colleagues,
This is the second edition of the Special Issue “Surgical Treatment of Bone Metastases”, available at
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/cancers/special_issues/surgical_treatment_bone_metastases.
Bone metastases are common occurrences in many cancers and are especially common in lung, breast, kidney, and prostate cancer. Bone metastases can cause painful and debilitating bony lesions or pathological fractures, and when located in the spine, even spinal cord or nerve root damage leading to paralysis can occur. Surgical treatment of bone metastases is often a major surgery (e.g., spinal surgery or joint replacement surgery), with a poor performance status and a high mortality. However, this surgery is often advantageous for the patients with respect to pain relief and function, but it can only very seldom be considered curative. Therefore, the selection of the right patients and surgical technique for bone metastasis surgery are extremely important in this patient group.
The intention of this Special Issue is to highlight all aspects of bone metastasis surgery research performed on all types of cancer patients, including patients suffering from hematologic malignancies.
Potential topics of interest, among others, for this Special Issue are surgical technique and selection of implants, patient survival, prediction of survival, surgical complications, implant survival, functional results, quality of life, and health economics.
Prof. Dr. Michael Mørk Petersen
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- metastatic bone disease
- bone metastasis
- pathological fractures
- surgical treatment
- patients survival
- implant survival
- functional results
- surgical technique
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