Response to Letter to the Editor From Judit Tőke and Miklós Tóth: “Shift in Calcium From Peripheral Bone to Axial Bone After Tumor Resection in Patients With Tumor-Induced Osteomalacia”

We thank Judit Tőke and Miklós Tóth for their interest in this article (1). Similar findings reported in both patients with tumor-induced osteomalacia and patients with Cushing's syndrome after tumor resection are interesting and worth exploring (2, 3). This phenomenon may represent the recovery process of bone damage caused by special disease. Future studies are needed to uncover the potential mechanisms behind the redistribution of bone minerals from the peripheral skeleton to the axial skeleton, which might imply new recovery mechanisms for many bone diseases.

Funding

This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 81970757, No. 81900798, and No. 82100942), Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences (No. 2021-I2M-1-002 and No. 2020-I2M-C&T-B-016), National Key Research and Development Program of China (No. 2021YFC2501700 and No. 2018YFA0800801), National High Level Hospital Clinical Research Funding (2022-PUMCH-A-202).

Disclosures

The authors have nothing to disclose.

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