Nature Communications (Oct 2019)

Interval breast cancer is associated with other types of tumors

  • Felix Grassmann,
  • Wei He,
  • Mikael Eriksson,
  • Marike Gabrielson,
  • Per Hall,
  • Kamila Czene

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12652-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Interval cancer patients are more likely to carry rare gene mutations than screen-detected breast cancer patients. Here, the authors report that interval cancer patients are more likely cancer survivors and are at a greater risk of developing other non-breast tumors.