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| | Study of leukemia survivors gives hints for better care (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | Secondary neoplasms are new tumors that develop after successful treatment of an initial cancer. |
 | | Among this group of former patients, about one in 25 survivors (4.17 percent) are estimated to develop secondary neoplasms by 15 years, one in 20 survivors (5.37 percent) by 20 years and one in 10 survivors (10.85 percent) by 30 years. |
 | | The secondary neoplasms that developed after remission during this time included myeloid (bone marrow cell) cancers, lymphomas (white blood cell cancers in lymph nodes), basal cell carcinomas, other types of carcinomas, sarcomas (cancer of supportive tissue, such as bone and cartilage), meningiomas and other tumors. |
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