Second cancers are on the rise; 1 in 5 US cases is a repeat

Associated Press ^ | Aug 24, 2015 1:48 AM EDT | Marilynn Marchione

[Olog-hai]

Second cancers are on the rise. Nearly 1 in 5 new cases in the U.S. now involves someone who has had the disease before.

When doctors talk about second cancers, they mean a different tissue type or a different site, not a recurrence or spread of the original tumor.

The trend is partly a success story: More people are surviving cancer and living long enough to get it again. …

[luckystarmom]

Too many people I know have/had cancer. Some have died, and some are dying.

I hate cancer!

[steve86]

Woman with eight sequential cancers and eight successful treatment regimens ... well, I am very pro-life over the whole span of an individual’s lifetime but at some point shouldn’t a person start to wonder if God is calling him/her back home? And feel no guilt over the multi-millions this is costing (no doubt other patients are being denied treatment and medical insurance premiums are skyrocketing for thousands). I could not live with that knowledge.

[angry elephant]

I have lost several close relatives to cancer when they were too young.

But I thought that medical science established a long time ago that if we lived long enough, maybe the late 80s or early 90s, most of us would die of cancer. Our body parts just wear out.

[Cold Heat]

Body parts wearing out and cancer are two entirely different conditions.

[golux]

FOOLS! Cancer is an upper-class problem. What we need to do is go beyond twice the money and get to ten times the money on AIDS research, condom dis"semination," and support for public school unions. After all, who cares more for your kids than the fine single folk who are desperate to teach them about sex?

[BykrBayb]

I’ve survived cancer twice, and I’m not ashamed. If I survive it a hundred times, I won’t be ashamed.

[BykrBayb]

Cancer ping.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

Recurrent cancers in the same person are likely due to one of three factors:

1) That person has a mutation in a tumor suppressor gene, or a gene that is required for DNA repair or immune surveillance;
2) The radiation therapy or chemotherapy used to treat the previous cancer caused DNA mutations that promoted the secondary cancers;
3) Specific exposures that contributed to the first cancer contributed to the subsequent cancer (e.g. smoking, radon, and other carcinogens etc..).

[CharlotteVRWC]

Dittos

[pieceofthepuzzle]

Nor should you be! Congratulations to you, and I hope you never have to go through that again.

[GailA]

Check out Joey Feek’s story, this is her second cancer. The first was cervical and not sigmoid colon cancer. She Uses Cancer Centers for America. She is the female have of the Joey and Rory Feek C & W duo and both are great Christians, new baby Indiana Boone is just a tad over a year old, a special needs baby.

She is not letting cancer beat her, she is still in the studio recording a gospel album.

[Steven Scharf]

What the article failled to point out is that people are able to get second cancers because they did not die from the first cancer.

That is more likely the reason we are seeing this rise of second cancers as with all disease, injuries, etc. Stuff that use to kill people younger is being treated, giving people the opportunity to die from something else later in life.

[Tired of Taxes]

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[SeaHawkFan]

If you have cancer or know someone who does, you should at least get a second opinion on your diagnosis and treatment at a place like MD Anderson, the best cancer center in the world.

[JRandomFreeper]

And just how many cancers have you survived? Or are you just talking what you read on the internet?

/johnny

[Kickass Conservative]

I've been treated for CCL, Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia for nearly Ten Years. After six months of Chemotherapy that ended late last Year (third times a charm), my Oncologist announced that I'm in Remission. That was the good news.

He then told me that they discovered that I now had a second type of Leukemia called MDS, Myelodysplastic Syndrome. That was the bad news.

For know, they are just monitoring it. Could have been there all the time and never caught in the numerous Bone Marrow Biopsy's or it could have been caused by the Chemotherapy Drugs I have been given to battle the CLL. Best case it is treatable, worst case it turns in Acute Leukemia. Taking it a day at a time. Some other issues related to the Blood Cancer have recently popped up because of my suppressed Immune System. When half the people working at the Blood Test Lab know your name, you know you've arrived. Watched my Late B-I-L deal with Esophageal Cancer, and it was a heinous five years for him. You never know when Cancer will touch your Life or the lives of your Family. It is beyond insidious, but we live in an amazing age that gives many who would never have had a chance even a decade or two ago real hope. I am one of those people.

[the OlLine Rebel]

This is not about recurrent, but different cancers.

[the OlLine Rebel]

It did not fail. It stated that right in this excerpt.

[BykrBayb]

I too hope you’re one of those people. As a matter of fact, I’ll be praying for it.