IL6 and cancer: The more common osteolytic metastasis occurs often in breast cancers as well as other cancers types, where bone homoeostasis is modulated by promoting the activity of bone-resorbing osteoclasts by factors such as IL-6, EGF-like growth factors, TGF-α, NF-κB ligand (RANKL) but also through tumour-derived LOX216–219.