Survival Analysis in Patients with Lung Cancer and Subsequent Primary Cancer: A Nationwide Cancer Registry Study.

ABSTRACT: With improved survival in patients with cancer, the risk of developing multiple primary malignancies (MPMs) has increased. We aimed to characterize MPMs involving lung cancer and compare these characteristics between patients with single lung cancer and those with lung cancer and subsequent primary cancer (known as lung cancer first [LCF]).

Methods

This retrospective study was conducted based on Taiwan Cancer Database from Taiwan's National Health Insurance Registry Database. Patients with lung cancer (n = 72,219) from 1 January 2011 to 31 December 2015, were included in this study, and their medical records were traced back to 1 January 2002, and followed until 31 December 2019.

Results

MPMs occurred in 10,577 (14.65%) patients with lung cancer, and LCF and other canc

SUBMITTER: Chou WR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9571412 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature