Epidemiology of multiple primary cancers.

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Cancer patients have a 20% higher risk of new primary cancer compared with the general population. Approximately one third of cancer survivors aged >60 years were diagnosed more than once with another cancer. As the number of cancer survivors and of older people increases, occurrence of multiple primary cancers is also likely to increase. An increasing interest from epidemiologic and clinical perspectives seems...

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