The secondary bones have lower amount of osteocytes so primary bone is much more easily penetrated by x-ray.

In most places in adults this tissue is replaced by secondary bone tissue except for example near the sutures of calvara or tooth sockets.

Australian singer/songwriter Delta Goodrem co-wrote the song "Be Strong" for Emmett in 2004, after Emmett had been diagnosed with secondary bone cancer.

Since, by definition, benign bone tumors do not metastasize, all secondary bone tumors are metastatic lesions which have spread from other organs, most commonly carcinomas of the breast, lung, and prostate.

A couple of janitor's assistants got their heads broken so bad they wouldn't ever need a car any more, and a few others who'd only had secondary bones broken started coming round Big Man looking for the salesman who'd got them into this.

It was during an Olympic game against France eight weeks ago - one in which he was being outplayed by the Knicks' deficient draft pick, Frederic Weis - that Longley incurred a secondary bone bruise and traumatic chondromalacia of the right knee.

This led to the discovery of cellular and molecular mechanisms of pathological bone resorption associated with primary and secondary bone tumours, particularly breast cancer metastasis, Ewing sarcoma and giant cell-rich lesions such as giant cell tumour of bone and pigmented villonodular synovitis.