Incident cancer in cancer survivors—when cancer lurks in the background
A partir des données des registres américains des cancers portant sur 765 843 patients atteints d'un cancer diagnostiqué entre 2009 et 2013, cette étude analyse la proportion de patients ayant survécu à un précédent cancer (141 021 cas de second cancer ou de récidive du cancer primitif)
Thanks to improvements in public health and more effective treatments for infectious diseases and cardiovascular disease, life expectancy in the United States has measurably improved. With increasing age comes an increase in cancer incidence. Over the past 4 decades improvements in cancer screening and treatment mean that about two-thirds of individuals in the United States diagnosed with cancer today will live at least 5 years.1 Thus, the need for evidence-based measures to optimize medical care for cancer survivors has emerged.
JAMA Oncology , commentaire, 2016