1 in 12 patients with a common cancer develop a second, unrelated malignancy

Thursday, July 14, 2016 - 11:31 in Health & Medicine

UCLA researchers have identified the incidence and long-term outcomes of patients who develop second, unrelated cancers, resulting in a data set that they say sheds new light on the way cancer survivors may need to be monitored post-disease. The researchers identified more than 2.1 million patients from the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results database, or […]

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