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.
Bone is the third most common location for metastasis, after the lung and liver. While any type of cancer is capable of forming metastatic tumors within bone, the microenvironment of the marrow tends to favor particular types of cancer, including prostate, breast, and lung cancers. Particularly in prostate cancer, bone metastases tend to be the only site of metastasis. The most common sites of bone metastases are the spine, pelvis, ribs, skull, and proximal femur.