Lymphoma. Hodgkinlymfomen and non-Hodgkin's disease

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Radiotherapy - Radiotherapy in Non-Hodgkin: Non-Hodgkin's patients - younger than 30 years - which have become irradiated for lymphoma - non-Hodgkin's disease and have survived around 40% greater chance of getting breast cancer later. Update November 27, 2010

October 10, 2005: Source: Reuters and Journal of the National Cancer Institute, October 5, 2005

Patients with lymphoma - non-Hodgkin's in the relatively young age - 30 years or younger - have become treated with radiation - radiation therapy have an approximately 40% increased risk of developing primary breast cancer starting in or near the irradiated area. This emerges from a long-term study from 1965 to 1994 as many as 3817 young women who have reached the 1-year survival. The authors note however that this study mainly the effect of the traditional form of radiation is measured. According to the authors, there are now new and improved methods of radiation. What that would be accurate except for some with a robot system and perhaps somewhat lower dose we do not know but this is quite a dramatic message. For this study, women were not even counted within one year are deceased and there is no measured or there is an increased risk bljikt to exist for other cancers. The results were so dramatic sometimes be worse if these figures were also measured and counted. Irradiation seems oi a form of treatment that really gives a magnified Concentrations in other cancers. You can do with additional support for diet and nutritional supplementation direct side effects of radiotherapy - radiotherapy reduce but whether this is a reduction of the Concentrations of getting other cancers, we dare not say. We suspect it but do not know for sure. Here an extensive article from Reuters about the latest study, which for us now is not to be found in PubMed. Once we catch the abstract, we will post it here

By Anthony J. Brown, MD
Fri Oct 7, 3:21 PM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Due to the chest radiation treatment for Given Often That is, women who survive Hodgkin's disease are at heightened risk for breast cancer. In fact, in some survivors, the odds of Developing breast cancer are as high as 40 per cent, new research indicates. The authors warn, however, That the Findings are based on older treatment approaches and, therefore, May not be applicable Financial to Women Treated today for Hodgkin's disease, a type of cancer That ambiguous the lymph nodes and Organs Involved in the body's immune system. "This is the first study, to our knowledge, to estimate the cumulative absolute risk of breast cancer among women Treated for Hodgkin's disease at age 30 years or younger Using detailed information on radiation and chemotherapy," lead author Dr. Lois B. Travis, from the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, Told Reuters Health. The Findings, Which Appear in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, are based on a study of 3817 young women who survived at least 1 year after being diagnosed with Hodgkin's Disease Between 1965 and 1994. Increased the risk of breast cancer as age at diagnosis, radiation dose, and duration of follow-up Increased. The risks ranged from 0 percent for a patient diagnosed at 15 years of age, Treated with a limited dose of radiation, and followed for 10 years to 40 percent for Someone diagnosed at 30 years of age, Treated with a large dose of radiation, and followed for 30 years. "Our results providence Hodgkin's patients with an estimate of absolute breast cancer risk, Particularly for Those Treated with wide-field chest radiotherapy that was only communicating Used from 1965 to 1994," Travis said. The Findings' Should Be Used with caution in Patients Treated with more recent approaches. " Travis said her group is now updating the follow-up of 40,000 Hodgkin's survivors ... Reported to international cancer registries to Examine the risk or Other cancers in this group.

SOURCE: Journal of the National Cancer Institute, October 5, 2005.