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SUBMITTER: Deng L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6558593 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Deng Lei L Harðardottír Hrönn H Song Huan H Xiao Zhengrui Z Jiang Changchuan C Wang Qian Q Valdimarsdóttir Unnur U Cheng Haiying H Loo Billy W BW Lu Donghao D
Cancer medicine 20190416 6
Lung cancer as a second primary malignancy (lung-2) is increasingly common, but its prognosis is poorly understood. This study aims to examine the overall and cancer-specific survival of patients diagnosed with lung-2 compared to lung-1. Primary lung cancer patients diagnosed from 1988 to 2014 in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program were included. Lung-2 was identified in patients with a previous diagnosis of nonlung primary malignancy in SEER. Hazard ratios (HRs) of ov ...[more]