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Increased Cancer Mortality Following a History of Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer

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People with a history of non-melanoma skin cancer may have an increased risk of other cancers. A 12-year follow-up of 1.1 million adults found that those who had a history of non-melanoma skin cancer had an increased risk of other skin cancers as well as non-skin cancers. These cancers included melanoma, throat cancer, lung cancer and non-Hodkin's lymphoma. Men had an increased risk of prostate cancer, bladder cancer and leukemia, and women had an increased risk of breast cancer.

Author: Thun, Michael J., Patel, Alpa V., Kahn, Henry S., Tatham, Lilith M., Heath, Jr, Clark W.
Publisher: American Medical Association
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 1998
Health aspects, Statistics, Skin cancer, Disease susceptibility

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Risk of cancer among offspring of childhood-cancer survivors

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Children of adults who had cancer as children do not appear to have an increased risk of cancer themselves. Researchers in the Netherlands used cancer and birth registries to determine the rate of cancer in 5,847 children of 14,652 adults who had childhood cancer. Although there were 17 retinoblastomas and as well as other forms of hereditary cancer, there were only 22 cases of non-hereditary cancer. This translates to a 30% increased risk, which is relatively small.

Author: Olsen, Jorgen H., Glattre, Eystein, Langmark, Froydis, Sankila, Risto, Garwicz, Stanislaw, Anderson, Harald, Hertz, Henrik, Lanning, Marjatta, Moller, Torgil, Tulinius, Hrafn
Publisher: Massachusetts Medical Society
Publication Name: The New England Journal of Medicine
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0028-4793
Year: 1998
Cancer in children, Childhood cancer, Family, Cancer survivors

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Subjects list: Risk factors, Cancer
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