- Title Pages
- Associate Editors
- To Rosalie and Tricia
- Preface
- Contributors
- 30 Cancers of the Nasal Cavity and Paranasal Sinuses
- 31 Nasopharyngeal Cancer
- 32 Cancer of the Larynx
- 33 Cancer of the Lung
- 34 Pleural and Peritoneal Neoplasms
- 35 Cancers of the Oral Cavity and Pharynx
- 36 Esophageal Cancer
- 37 Stomach Cancer
- 38 Cancer of the Pancreas
- 39 Liver Cancer
- 40 Biliary Tract Cancer
- 41 Cancers of the Small Intestine
- 42 Cancers of the Colon and Rectum
- 43 Anal Cancer
- 44 The Leukemias
- 45 Hodgkin Lymphoma
- 46 Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
- 47 Multiple Myeloma
- 48 Bone Cancer
- 49 Soft Tissue Sarcoma
- 50 Thyroid Cancer
- 51 Breast Cancer
- 52 Ovarian Cancer
- 53 Endometrial Cancer
- 54 Cervical Cancer
- 55 Cancers of the Vulva and Vagina
- 56 Choriocarcinoma
- 57 Renal Cancer
- 58 Bladder Cancer
- 59 Prostate Cancer
- 60 Testicular Cancer
- 61 Penile Cancer
- 62 Nervous System
- 63 Cutaneous and Ocular Melanoma
- 64 Keratinocyte Carcinomas (Basal and Squamous Cell Carcinomas of the Skin)
- 65 Cancers in Children
- 66 Multiple Primary Cancers
- Index
Multiple Primary Cancers
Multiple Primary Cancers
- Chapter:
- (p.1269) 66 Multiple Primary Cancers
- Source:
- Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention
- Author(s):
DAVID SCHOTTENFELD
JENNIFER L. BEEBE-DIMMER
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter focuses on multiple primary cancers. Approximately 200,000 new cancers each year in the United States are multiple primary cancers, or about 16% of the annual incidence of invasive cancers. Epidemiological research on multiple primary cancers, and the risk mechanisms and patterns of multiple primary cancers are discussed.
Keywords: cancer risk, cancer epidemiology, cancer prevention, invasive cancers
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- Title Pages
- Associate Editors
- To Rosalie and Tricia
- Preface
- Contributors
- 30 Cancers of the Nasal Cavity and Paranasal Sinuses
- 31 Nasopharyngeal Cancer
- 32 Cancer of the Larynx
- 33 Cancer of the Lung
- 34 Pleural and Peritoneal Neoplasms
- 35 Cancers of the Oral Cavity and Pharynx
- 36 Esophageal Cancer
- 37 Stomach Cancer
- 38 Cancer of the Pancreas
- 39 Liver Cancer
- 40 Biliary Tract Cancer
- 41 Cancers of the Small Intestine
- 42 Cancers of the Colon and Rectum
- 43 Anal Cancer
- 44 The Leukemias
- 45 Hodgkin Lymphoma
- 46 Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
- 47 Multiple Myeloma
- 48 Bone Cancer
- 49 Soft Tissue Sarcoma
- 50 Thyroid Cancer
- 51 Breast Cancer
- 52 Ovarian Cancer
- 53 Endometrial Cancer
- 54 Cervical Cancer
- 55 Cancers of the Vulva and Vagina
- 56 Choriocarcinoma
- 57 Renal Cancer
- 58 Bladder Cancer
- 59 Prostate Cancer
- 60 Testicular Cancer
- 61 Penile Cancer
- 62 Nervous System
- 63 Cutaneous and Ocular Melanoma
- 64 Keratinocyte Carcinomas (Basal and Squamous Cell Carcinomas of the Skin)
- 65 Cancers in Children
- 66 Multiple Primary Cancers
- Index
