by: Julie Wilson staff writer
Are cancer treatments causing more
cancer?
A document[PDF] by the American Cancer Society titled "Second Cancers in Adults" admits that second cancers may be caused by cancer treatment."Radiation therapy was recognized as a potential cause of cancer many years ago," according to the ACS, which also admits that most types of leukemia, including acute myelogenous leukemia (AML), chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) and acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), can all be caused by radiation.
Most cancers caused by radiation therapy develop within just a few years of being irradiated, with the disease peaking at five to nine years following exposure.
Similarly, chemotherapy drugs have also been linked to different kinds of second cancers, with the most common being myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) and AML; ALL has also been linked to these cancer drugs.
Cancer drugs cause at least 40,000 cases
of new cancer each year in the U.S.
Onderzoek is verricht door de American Cancer Society !!
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