second cancer meaning

• [Medicine]
  Abnormal growths of tissue that follow a previous neoplasm but are not metastases of the latter. The second neoplasm may have the same or different histological type and can occur in the same or different organs as the previous neoplasm but in all cases arises from an independent oncogenic event. The development of the second neoplasm may or may not be related to the treatment for the previous neoplasm since genetic risk or predisposing factors may actually be the cause.

• The second cancer nearly cost james his life
• The earlier the men developed cancer, the higher their risk of a second cancer
• Six of these patients had second cancers linked to radiotherapy.
• End of 2011 a second cancer, esophagus cancer, was found.
• A similar overdose damaged the heart of a second cancer patient, Maureen Bateman.
• Complicating matters is the risk of second cancers.
• It was his second cancer diagnosis, having had a melanoma removed five years earlier.
• Test results were positive and the two companies plan a second cancer project, Sandoz said.
• He died at home, a second cancer making merry in a body humbled by the first.
• Among postmenopausal women, in fact, there was a slightly increased risk of developing a second cancer.

• "second cancer" meaning in Chinese: 《英文msh词典》Second Cancer