Abstract
Cancer survivors have a 14% greater risk of developing a new primary malignancy compared with the general population, according to a new report from the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The report, New Malignancies Among Cancer Survivors, includes data from NCI’s Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) cancer registries that followed 2 million cancer survivors for nearly 30 years. It contains information on the risks of subsequent malignancies for more than 50 adult and 18 childhood cancers. The report is available online at www.seer.cancer.gov/publications/mpmono. The SEER report is not only intended to be used as a resource by health care practitioners, researchers, and policy-makers, said Rochelle Curtis, a research statistician in NCI’s Radiation Epidemiology Branch, “it should be useful in advising cancer survivors of their long-term outlook and importance of medical supervision in the detection of a new malignancy.” More than 10.5 million Americans are cancer survivors, Curtis told reporters at a January 24 NCI media event.
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