TY - JOUR AU - Koizumi, Mitsuru AU - Yoshimoto, Masataka AU - Kasumi, Fujio AU - Iwase, Takuji AU - Ogata, Etsuro PY - 2010 DA - 2010/08/13 TI - Post-operative breast cancer patients diagnosed with skeletal metastasis without bone pain had fewer skeletal-related events and deaths than those with bone pain JO - BMC Cancer SP - 423 VL - 10 IS - 1 AB - Skeletal metastases are often accompanied by bone pain. To investigate the clinical meaning of bone pain associated with skeletal metastasis in breast cancer patients after surgery, we explored whether the presence of bone pain was due to skeletal-related events (SREs) or survival (cause specific death, CSD), retrospectively. SN - 1471-2407 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-10-423 DO - 10.1186/1471-2407-10-423 ID - Koizumi2010 ER -