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SUBMITTER: Rigter LS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6346242 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Rigter Lisanne S LS Schaapveld Michael M Janus Cecile P M CPM Krol Augustinus D G ADG van der Maazen Richard W M RWM Roesink Judith J Zijlstra Josee M JM van Imhoff Gustaaf W GW Poortmans Philip M P PMP Beijert Max M Lugtenburg Pieternella J PJ Visser Otto O Snaebjornsson Petur P van Eggermond Anna M AM Aleman Berthe M P BMP van Leeuwen Flora E FE van Leerdam Monique E ME
Cancer medicine 20181227 1
<h4>Background</h4>Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) survivors have an increased risk of gastrointestinal (GI) cancer. This study aims to evaluate whether survival of patients who survived HL and developed GI cancer differs from survival of first primary GI cancer patients.<h4>Methods</h4>Overall and cause-specific survival of GI cancer patients in a HL survivor cohort (GI-HL, N = 104, including esophageal, gastric, small intestinal, and colorectal cancer) was compared with survival of a first primary GI ca ...[more]