  Metastases increase the risk of fracture when affecting the femur.
Consequently, clinicians need to know if the patients femur can withstand the
stress of daily activities. The current tools used in clinics are not
sufficiently precise. A new method, the CT-scan-based finite element analysis,
gives good predictive results. However, none of the existing models were tested
for reproducibility. This is a critical issue to address in order to apply the
technique on a large cohort around the world to help evaluate bone metastatic
fracture risk in patients. Please see pdf file
