Clinical characteristics of patients operated for complications of bone metastases and included in model and test set of GC-MS analysis of bone metastases and corresponding normal bone samples.

Samples are grouped according to primary diagnosis. Esophagus, lung and kidney patients were all men and breast cancer patients were women. Continuous values are given as median (min-max).
aChemotherapy including estracyte, taxotere and tamoxifene prior to surgery.
bRadiation against operation site prior to surgery.
cCastration-resistant patients had disease progression after long-term androgen deprivation therapy including surgical ablation, LHRH/GNRH agonist therapy, and anti-androgen therapy; bicaglutamide.
dHormone-refractory breast cancer patients had disease progression after long-term estrogen deprivation therapy including tamoxifen.