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Second Cancer Risk Up to 40 Years after Treatment for Hodgkin’s Lymphoma

Second Cancer Risk Up to 40 Years after Treatment for Hodgkin’s Lymphoma

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Second Cancer Risk Up to 40 Years after Treatment for Hodgkin’s Lymphoma

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Full title

Second Cancer Risk Up to 40 Years after Treatment for Hodgkin’s Lymphoma

Publisher

United States: Massachusetts Medical Society

Journal title

The New England journal of medicine, 2015-12, Vol.373 (26), p.2499-2511

Language

English

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United States: Massachusetts Medical Society

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Contents

Despite efforts to reduce the incidence of second cancer, the risk was not lower among 5-year survivors of Hodgkin's lymphoma in the Netherlands treated between 1989 and 2000, a period when more limited radiation fields and doses were used, than in earlier periods.
Since the late 1960s, when combination chemotherapy and high-energy radiation the...

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Second Cancer Risk Up to 40 Years after Treatment for Hodgkin’s Lymphoma

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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2119955035

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2119955035

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ISSN

0028-4793

E-ISSN

1533-4406

DOI

10.1056/NEJMoa1505949

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