InhaltsangabeHistorical Remarks on Metastasis and Metastatic Bone Disease.- Nature of Metastatic Bone Disease.- Incidence and Distribution of Bone Metastases.- Detection and Characterization of Tumor Cells in Bone Marrow of Patients with Primary Breast Cancer.- Normal Bone Remodeling and Metastatic Bone Disease.- Morphological Findings in Bone Metastasis, Tumorosteopathy and Antiosteolytic Therapy.- Mechanisms of Osteolytic Bone Destruction.- Diagnosis of Skeletal Metastases and Assessment of Response to Treatment.- Biochemical Markers of Bone Metabolism in Metastatic Bone Disease.- Palliative Radiotherapy of Bone Metastases.- Systemic Treatment of Bone Metastases: Review of Literature and Retrospective Analysis of 718 Breast Cancer Patients.- Bisphosphonates: Mechanism of Action and Clinical Use in Hypercalcemia of Malignancy and Tumor-Induced Bone Destruction.- Clodronate Decreases Skeletal Morbidity in Patients with Bone Metastases from Breast Cancer: A Double-Blind Randomized Controlled Trial.