Breast cancer survivors at a greater risk of new tumours than people who have ... trends now
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Breast cancer survivors are significantly more likely to develop a new form of cancer than people who have never had the disease, research has found.
The effect was seen most strongly in women diagnosed before the age of 50, who are nearly twice as likely to get the disease elsewhere.
The study also found that the most common place for new tumours to occur in these patients was in the womb, followed by the blood and the ovaries.
Experts say genetics are partly to blame. Around one in ten breast cancer patients carry the inherited BRCA1 and BRCA2 genetic mutations, which raise the risk of that cancer as well as other forms of the disease.
The University of Cambridge researchers also pointed to lifestyle factors such as smoking, excessive alcohol consumption and obesity as reasons why breast cancer patients were so prone to
