Journal
SUPPORTIVE CARE IN CANCER
Volume 21, Issue 12, Pages 3279-3286Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-013-1887-3
Keywords
Breast neoplasms; Lung neoplasms; Prostatic neoplasms; Neoplasm metastasis; Fractures; Spontaneous; Spinal cord compression
Funding
- Amgen Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA
- Amgen Inc.
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To document the risk of skeletal complications in patients with bone metastases from breast cancer (BC), lung cancer (LC), or prostate cancer (PC) in routine clinical practice. We used data from two large US health systems to identify patients aged a parts per thousand yen18 years with primary BC, LC, or PC and newly diagnosed bone metastases between January 1, 1995 and December 31, 2009. Beginning with the date of diagnosis of bone metastasis, we estimated the cumulative incidence of skeletal-related events (SREs) (spinal cord compression, pathologic fracture, radiation to bone, bone surgery), based on review of medical records, accounting for death as a competing risk. We identified a total of 621 BC, 477 LC, and 721 PC patients with newly diagnosed bone metastases. SREs were present at diagnosis of bone metastasis in 22.4, 22.4, and 10.0 % of BC, LC, and PC patients, respectively. Relatively few LC or PC patients received intravenous bisphosphonates (14.8 and 20.2 %, respectively); use was higher in patients with BC, however (55.8 %). In BC, cumulative incidence of SREs during follow-up was 38.7 % at 6 months, 45.4 % at 12 months, and 54.2 % at 24 months; in LC, it was 41.0, 45.4, and 47.7 %; and in PC, it was 21.5, 30.4, and 41.9 %. More than one half of patients with bone metastases had evidence of SREs (BC: 62.6 %; LC: 58.7 %; PC: 51.7 %), either at diagnosis of bone metastases or subsequently. SREs are a frequent complication in patients with solid tumors and bone metastases, and are much more common than previously recognized in women with BC.
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