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What is the likelihood that a cancer surviver gets another, different type of cancer again?
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Harder to quantify: Cancer survivors have higher risk of second cancer. It may be due to inheritied factors, exposure to the agents that casued first cancer and cancer treatment itself may be carcinogenic.
Answered 7/20/2012
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