Cancers Metastatic to Bone or (Secondary bone cancers): Although most cancers can spread to or invade bone, the most common cancers that spread to bone are multiple myeloma, breast, prostate, lung, kidney, and thyroid cancer.
Healthy arteries are flexible and elastic, but over time, the walls in your arteries can harden, a condition commonly called hardening of the arteries. Atherosclerosis is a specific type of arteriosclerosis, but the terms are sometimes used interchangeably. Atherosclerosis refers to the buildup of fats, cholesterol and other substances in and on your artery walls (plaques), which can restrict blood flow.
pl. scleÂ·roÂ·ses (-sÄz) The hardening of a tissue or part due to chronic inflammation. A thickening or hardening of a body part or system especially from excessive formation of fibrous interstitial or glial tissue. Any of various diseases characterized by thickening or hardening, such as arteriosclerosis.