Trend of Incidence of Second Primary Malignancies following Breast Cancer in Taiwan: A 12-year Nationwide Cohort Study.

The article focuses on incidence of second primary malignancies following breast cancer in Taiwan. Topics discussed include breast cancer is the most common female cancer in Taiwan, it has become an increasingly survivable disease resulting in a large population of long-term survivors, patients were at highest risk of developing kidney cancer after breast cancer and higher risk of developing second primary malignancies such as kidney cancer and thyroid gland cancer.