Assessment of current practices among physicians and awareness and concern among patients for bone health in cancer.

e19617 Background: Little is known about physicians’ (MDs) and cancer patients' (pts) levels of awareness or concern about bone health or how/when MDs discuss bone health with at-risk patients. An online survey was conducted to explore these issues and evaluate knowledge levels and attitudes about bone metastases and cancer treatment-induced bone loss (CTIBL). Methods: MDs from the AMA master list recruited for the survey included urologists (n=113), medical oncologists (med oncs; n=204) and hematologist-oncologists (hem oncs; n=150). Breast (BC, n=212) and prostate (PC, n=186) cancer pts were recruited from Harris' Chronic Illness Panel; myeloma (MM, n=831) pts were recruited from members of the International Myeloma Foundation. Surveys lasted on average 10 minutes; MD, BC pt, and PC pt surveys were weighted to be representative of the populations of interest. Descriptive statistical analyses were used. Results: More nonmetastatic BC than PC pts are familiar with the term “bone metastases” (50% vs 35%) a...