Are patients with non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer a suitable population for a lung cancer screening trial?

To estimate the relative risk of developing a second primary neoplasm, in particular lung cancer, after having non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer NMIBC Patients were included in the study if they had developed NMIBC between 1995 and 2003 All clinical data were extracted from the medical records of our institutions database The interval between neoplasms, smoking habits, histological subtypes and survival were also analysed Patient follow-up was [ge]5 years We found 231 patients with NMIBC, 39 of which had a second primary neoplasm: 10 lung cancer, one pancreas, one gastric, one pharynx, one liver, one parathyroid, one oesophageal, five basal cell carcinoma, three larynx, two colon, three rectal and 10 prostate In patients with lung cancer, NMIBC was the first primary tumour Overa

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