[Expert consensus on renal cell carcinoma with bone metastasis (2020 Edition)]

Bone is the second most common metastatic site of renal cell carcinoma (RCC), about 35-40% of metastatic RCC patients are associated with bone metastasis. Bone metastasis can cause pain, pathological fracture, spinal cord compression, hypercalcemia and other skeletal related events (SREs), which may seriously affect patients' quality of life. RCC patients with bone metastasis, for whom drug therapy alone is less effective and the prognosis is poor, required multi-disciplinary team (MDT) and individualized comprehensive treatment to reduce or delay the onset of SRE, to maintain the quality of life and to extend the time of disease control and survival. In order to update the worldwide treatment progress in RCC with bone metastasis timely, and to improve the standardized diagnosis and treatment of such patients in China, the diagnosis and therapy for bone metastasis of malignant tumor and skeletal-related event expert group formulates "Expert consensus on renal cell carcinoma with bone metastasis (2020 Edition)" .