Christine - yes, Jim's cancer metastized to his bone 2 years ago - it is in his spine, shoulder blades, hip and now his lungs and trachea. The only good thing that I can tell you is that they can radiate the bone areas and kill the tumor that is invading the site...but only once; the bone is weakened from the radiation so if they don't get it then they cannot re-radiate the area (at least that's Jim's case). He did have a partial hip replacement last Feb. as the bone had been radiated and it came back so they replaced the damaged area with a partial hip. Issues - bone pain is incredibly painful, Jim has an extremely high tolerance for pain, so we're lucky in the pain dept. I guess if you can call call anything lucky about this dreaded diseas.

Hope this helps.
Paula