Hypercalcemia of malignancy #151.

摘要

Up to 30% of patients with cancer develop hypercalce-mia. Approximately 50% of these patients will die within 30 days of a hypercalcemia diagnosis. The most common cancers leading to hypercalcemia are squamous cell cancers of lung, head and neck, and esophagus, breast cancer, renal cell carcinoma, lymphomas, and multiple myeloma.