A 62-year-old man comes to the physician because of pain in the left hip for 3 weeks. An x-ray of the hip shows a 4.5-cm

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A 62-year-old man comes to the physician because of pain in the left hip for 3 weeks. An x-ray of the hip shows a 4.5-cm

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A 62-year-old man comes to the physician because of pain in the left hip for 3 weeks. An x-ray of the hip shows a 4.5-cm destructive osteoblastic lesion with an associated fracture in the proximal femur and two separate similar smaller lesions in the bony pelvis. A needle core biopsy of the femur shows metastatic carcinoma. Which of the following is the most likely primary site of the cancer?


A) Colon
B) Kidney
C) Lung
D) Pancreas
E) Prostate
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