1 Albert DePrisco, left, and author, actor and director Lisa Niemi Swayze at a book signing event at DePrisco Jewelers in Wellesley on November 30, 2013. 2  Patrick Swayze and his wife Lisa Niemi. They were married 34 years until he died of pancreatic cancer in 2009. Niemi's form of release and recovery from losing Swayze was through her best-selling book, Worth Fighting For: Love, Loss and Moving Forward..
bone metastases. Cancer that has spread from a primary tumour to the bone marrow; in descending order of frequency, bone mets originate from: breast, prostate, lung, colon, stomach, bladder, uterus, rectum, thyroid, kidney. Clinical findings.
If the cancer has destroyed enough of the bone, these changes appear on x-rays as a darker hole in the gray-white bone image. Osteoblastic or blastic metastases cause an area of the bone to appear denser or sclerotic. On x-rays, these metastases show up as spots that are whiter than the bone around them.This is seen more commonly in certain cancers, such as prostate cancer and some breast cancers. Often, bone metastases have both lytic and blastic features.our doctor may order lab tests and imaging tests (such as x-rays or bone scans) to see how far the cancer has spread. This may be done before, during, and after treatment. These tests may show bone metastases. In other cases, a symptom such as bone pain may be the first sign of bone metastases.