Population-based risk assessment of second primary cancers following a first head and neck cancer: patterns of association and difficulties of its analysis.

Jordi Rubio CasadevallJ GalceranA AmeijideM PuigdemontL LlauradóJ MarruecosA IzquierdoM CarullaJ L BorràsR Marcos-GrageraJ Gumà

Published in: Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico (2020)

The risks of a SPC following a prior HNC in Tarragona and Girona are similar to those previously found in other similar cohorts. It would appear to be advisable to make a revision of the international rules of classification of multiple tumours, grouping the sites of head and neck area with new aetiological criteria to better determine and interpret the risks of SPC obtained in these studies.

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