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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2002 94(24):1892; doi:10.1093/jnci/94.24.1892
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Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 94, No. 24, 1892, December 18, 2002
© 2002 Oxford University Press

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Re: Risk of Subsequent Cancer Following Breast Cancer in Men

Kari Hemminki, Charlotta Granström

Affiliations of authors: K. Hemminki, Department of Biosciences at Novum, Karolinska Institute, Huddinge, Sweden, and Division of Molecular Genetic Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany; C. Granström, Department of Biosciences at Novum, Karolinska Institute, Huddinge.

Correspondence to: Kari Hemminki, M.D., Ph.D., CNT Novum, 141 57, Sweden (e-mail: kari. hemminki@cnt.ki.se).

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Auvinen et al. (1) published results on male breast cancer based on the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER)1 data source. They showed a standardized incidence ratio (SIR) for contralateral breast cancer of 29.64 in 12 individuals. Melanoma was also in excess after breast cancer (SIR = 2.41). However, when breast cancer was analyzed as a second primary cancer after any other type of cancer, no statistically significant increases were observed.

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