ReviewJournal of bone oncology2020
Bone metastases in thyroid cancer.
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- Chinese management guidelines for radioactive iodine-refractory differentiated thyroid cancer (2025 edition).European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging · 2025Guideline
- 2025 American Thyroid Association Management Guidelines for Adult Patients with Differentiated Thyroid Cancer.Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association · 2025Guideline
- SEOM-GETNE-TTCC Clinical guideline thyroid cancer (2023).Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2024Guideline
- Adding pieces to the puzzle of differentiated-to-anaplastic thyroid cancer evolution: the oncogene E2F7.Cell death & disease · 2023Pooled it
- Analysis of the Mechanism and Safety of Bisphosphonates in Patients with Lung Cancer and Bone Metastases.Computational and mathematical methods in medicine · 2021Trial
- RET-driven osteoprotegerin expression links medullary thyroid cancer to osteoblastic bone metastases.Cell reports. Medicine · 2026Article
- Case report and literature review of synchronous follicular and papillary thyroid carcinoma with metastasis to femur.Discover oncology · 2026Article
- Clinical application of urinary NTx in patients with bone metastases from lung cancer.Journal of bone oncology · 2026Article
- A review of spontaneous bone metastases in domestic and laboratory animals.Journal of bone oncology · 2026Review
- Radiotherapy for the management of bone metastases in differentiated thyroid cancer.Clinical and translational radiation oncology · 2026Article
- Reconstruction of the chest wall after resection of a locally advanced poorly differentiated thyroid carcinoma with sternal infiltration: case report and literature review.AME case reports · 2026Article
- Papillary thyroid carcinoma with metastasis to the femur as a rare cause of femoral fracture: A case report.Oncology letters · 2025Article
- Molecular mechanisms of bone metastasis in breast cancer based on transcriptomic and microbiomic analysis.Cancer causes & control : CCC · 2025Article
- Bilateral osteonecrosis of the external auditory canal caused by bone-modifying agents for cancer bone metastases.International cancer conference journal · 2025Article
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- Occult Papillary Carcinoma Thyroid with Solitary Appendicular Bone Metastasis in Proximal Humerus - A Case Report.Journal of orthopaedic case reports · 2025Article
- Disease-specific Mortality of Differentiated Thyroid Cancer With Distant Metastases.Journal of the Endocrine Society · 2025Article
- Prediction of Patients With Anaplastic Thyroid Carcinoma With Bone Metastasis: A Population-Based Study.International journal of endocrinology · 2025Article
- Bone metastases from endocrine cancer: advances in diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2025Review
- Incidence and gender difference of brain metastases in newly diagnosed follicular thyroid cancer patients.European thyroid journal · 2024Article
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Abstract
Whereas preemptive screening for the presence of lymph node and lung metastases is standard-of-care in thyroid cancer patients, bone metastases are less well studied and are often neglected in thyroid cancer patient surveillance. Bone metastases in thyroid cancer are, however, independently associated with poor/worse prognosis with a median overall survival from detection of only 4 years despite an otherwise excellent prognosis for the vast majority of thyroid cancer patients. In this review we summarize the state of current knowledge as pertinent to bony metastatic disease in thyroid cancer, including clinical implications, impacts on patient function and quality of life, pathogenesis, and therapeutic opportunities, proposing approaches to patient care accordingly. In particular, bone metastasis pathogenesis appears to reflect cooperatively between cancer and the bone microenvironment creating a "vicious cycle" of bone destruction rather than due exclusively to tumor invasion into bone. Additionally, bone metastases are more frequent in follicular and medullary thyroid cancers, requiring closer bone surveillance in patients with these histologies. Emerging data also suggest that treatments such as multikinase inhibitors (MKIs) can be less effective in controlling bone, as opposed to other (e.g. lung), metastases in thyroid cancers, making special attention to bone critical even in the setting of active MKI therapy. Although locoregional therapies including surgery, radiotherapy and ablation play important roles in palliation, antiresorptive agents including bisphosphonates and denosumab appear individually to delay and/or lessen skeletal morbidity and complications, with dosing frequency of every 3 months appearing optimal; their early application should therefore be strongly considered.
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