Every year, between 150 and 200 people in the Netherlands are diagnosed with bone cancer. What is it?

There are many misconceptions about cancer. Perhaps the biggest is that people often think that someone has many different types of cancer, when in most cases it is a metastatic variant of the original cancer. For example, breast, lung and prostate cancers often spread to the bones. It is then quickly stated that someone has bone cancer. Nothing could be further from the truth, the person in question has metastatic breast, lung or prostate cancer that has settled in the bones.

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