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Second cancers are on the rise; 1 in 5 US cases is a repeat

Submitted by Marijuana News on Tue, 08/25/2015 - 08:45

Second cancers are on the rise. Nearly 1 in 5 new cases in the U.S. now involves someone who has had the disease before.

 

When doctors talk about second cancers, they mean a different tissue type or a different site, not a recurrence or spread of the original tumor.

Judith Bernstein of suburban Philadelphia is an extreme example. She has had eight types over the last two decades, all treated successfully.

"There was a while when I was getting one cancer diagnosis after another," including breast, lung, esophageal, and the latest — a rare tumor of her eyelids, she said. "At one point I thought I had cancer in my little finger."

About 19 percent of cancers in the United States now are second-or-more cases, a recent study found. In the 1970s, it was only 9 percent. Over

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