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Assessing second cancer risk after primary cancer treatment with photon or proton radiotherapy
Author(s) -
DeLaney Thomas F.,
Yock Torunn I.,
Paganetti Harald
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/cncr.32936
Subject(s) - medicine , cancer , modalities , radiation therapy , treatment modality , primary cancer , primary treatment , cancer treatment , medical physics , social science , sociology
In this issue, Xiang and colleagues present data from the National Cancer Database comparing the number of second malignancies observed in adult and pediatric patients with 9 major cancer subtypes who received different radiation modalities. These are important findings because understanding the risk of late, radiation‐associated malignancies with different radiation modalities may help physicians reduce the risk of this devastating late treatment effect.