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Minter: My thoughts with your sister and family - this is a very difficult time. What you are looking for is a cure for metastatic (distant spread) breast cancer, not bone cancer. The term "bone cancer" is often misused by lay people when in fact the prognosis is determined by the type of primary cancer which has spread to the bones.

My only advice is to avoid expensive unproven quack "cures" - patients such as your sister are often preyed upon by unscrupulous theives who promise a cure on payment of extraordinary sums of money that results in mortgaging all the desperate family owns. This then leaves the family to cope with not on the loss of a loved one, but trying to do that in the context of incredible financial strain. So sad.

All the best of luck.