Epidemiology, Pattern, and Survival of Multiple Primary Malignant Neoplasms in Southeast Iran: Results of Kerman Population-Based Cancer Registry 2014-2020.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Cancer survivors may experience a subsequent primary cancer that affects their survival and quality of life. This study aimed to investigate the epidemiology of multiple primary malignant neoplasms (MPMNs) in Kerman province, southeast Iran during 2014-2020.

Materials and methods

In this retrospective cohort study, all patients who had been diagnosed with primary cancers and registered with the Kerman Cancer Registry Program (KPBCR) during 2014-2020 were included. MPMNs were defined as primary malignant tumors arising in different sites and/or were of different histological or morphological origins. If the second malignancy was diagnosed within the first six months from the diagnosis of the first tumor it was considered synchronous, and if after six months it was def

SUBMITTER: Malekpour Afshar R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11480609 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature