title: Secondary neoplasms following cancer treatment with a special emphasis on lung tumors.
abstract: In patients with successfully treated Hodgkin's disease, lung cancers, and particularly small cell lung cancers, are not uncommon (relative risk: +/- 5) and result essentially from radiotherapy. What is usually considered as a late recurrence of small cell lung cancer occurs also frequently in long-term surviving patients after therapy for small cell lung cancer; it is hypothesized that at least some of these tumors might be in fact induced by the therapy used for the initial lung neoplasm.
authors.affiliation: Internal Medicine Service, Free University Bruxelles, Belgium.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Klastersky
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Leleux
mesh_terms: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000009:adverse effects*; D018288:Carcinoma, Small Cell / Q000628:therapy; D006689:Hodgkin Disease / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / Q000209:etiology*; D009381:Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced; D011878:Radiotherapy / Q000009:adverse effects*
chemical_list: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents