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| 12/15/2011 | Does a bone scan detect only osteoblastic lesions or will it detect osteolytic lesions as well? Are breast cancers usually osteolytic or osteoblastic? If there are suspicious lesions found on a CT scan from 2006 and they have only changed slightly on my most reent CT scan...wouldn't cancer spread more quickly? | ||
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| 12/15/2011 | osteolytic For more info go to: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC209307/ given 5 years or more have passed without a significant change would imply that it probably isn't cancer. | ||
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