Cancer Knowledge Network: Childhood Cancer Survivors: Does chemotherapy alone increase second cancer risk?

THE RESEARCH: Journal of Clinical Oncology: Long-Term Risk of Subsequent Malignant Neoplasms After Treatment of Childhood Cancer in the DCOG LATER Study Cohort: Role of Chemotherapy. Researchers in the Netherlands identified second cancers in 5-year childhood cancer survivors in the Dutch Childhood Cancer Oncology Group Long-Term Effects After Childhood Cancer (DCOG LATER) cohort. Cumulative incidences of breast cancer, sarcoma, and all solid cancers were calculated for this cohort, with a particular focus on the risks associated with individual chemotherapeutic agents.

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