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Every year, MD Anderson¡¯s surgeons perform more than 200 spine tumor operations. While some of the patients have primary spine tumors, almost 90% of them have metastatic cancer.

¡°After the lungs and liver, the skeleton is the third most common area where cancer spreads. And within the skeleton, the spine is the most common site,¡± explains Laurence Rhines, M.D., professor of Neurosurgery.

Managing spinal metastases is challenging...