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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY
Volume 29, Issue 31, Pages 4096-4104Publisher
AMER SOC CLINICAL ONCOLOGY
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2011.34.8268
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- Medical Research Council [G9824546]
- Institute of Cancer Research
- Royal Marsden Hospital
- National Institute for Health Research [NF-SI-0507-10370] Funding Source: researchfish
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Purpose We investigated the long-term risk of second primary malignancy after chemotherapy for Hodgkin's lymphoma (HL) in a much larger cohort than any yet published, to our knowledge. Patients and Methods We followed 5,798 patients with HL treated with chemotherapy in Britain from 1963 to 2001-of whom 3,432 also received radiotherapy-to assess second primary malignancy risks compared with general population-based expectations. Results Second malignancies occurred in 459 cohort members. Relative risk (RR) of second cancer was raised after chemotherapy alone (RR, 2.0; 95% CI, 1.7 to 2.4) but was much lower than after combined modalities (RR, 3.9; 95% CI, 3.5 to 4.4). After chemotherapy alone, there were significantly raised risks of lung cancer, non-HL, and leukemia, each contributing approximately equal absolute excess risk. After combined modalities, there were raised risks of these and several other cancers. Second cancer risk peaked 5 to 9 years after chemotherapy alone, but it remained raised for 25 years and longer after combined modalities. Risk was raised after each common chemotherapy regimen except, based on limited numbers and follow-up, adriamycin, bleomycin, vinblastine, and dacarbazine. The age and time-course relations of lung cancer differed between chemotherapy alone and combined modalities. Conclusion Although chemotherapy alone leads to raised risk of second malignancy, this risk is lower and affects fewer anatomic sites than that after combined modalities, and it is slight if at all after 15 years follow-up. The mechanism of lung cancer etiology may differ between chemotherapy and radiotherapy. J Clin Oncol 29:4096-4104. (C) 2011 by American Society of Clinical Oncology
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