If it's not one cancer... Then it's another. As if getting successfully through one cancer diagnosis is not triumph enough, Danish investigators sorting through a half million records found that women who survived breast cancer had a 25% increased risk of contracting a new primary nonbreast cancer in 57 years of follow-up compared with women cancer-free from the outset.
The scientists suggested several reasons why this might be so including: a genetic susceptability to cancer, shared environmental risk factors, the result of previous cancer treatment, and increased surveillance.
Then it's another. As if getting successfully through one cancer diagnosis is not triumph enough, Danish investigators sorting through a half million records found that women who survived breast cancer had a 25% increased risk of contracting a new primary nonbreast cancer in 57 years of follow-up compared with women cancer-free from the outset.
The scientists suggested several reasons why this might be so including: a genetic susceptability to cancer, shared environmental risk factors, the result of previous cancer treatment, and increased surveillance.