News Finding: As a whole, men diagnosed with prostate cancer were at a lower risk of developing a second cancer.
Paper Finding: In the 2 to 11 months after prostate cancer diagnosis, there was an increased risk of urinary bladder, kidney, thyroid, and endocrine system cancers and of lymphoma (including both Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin lymphoma).
News Context: "Overall the incidence of these cancers is low. As a whole, men diagnosed with prostate cancer were at a lower risk of developing a second cancer. But when researchers looked at patients who received external beam radiation therapy, they found these patients were estimated to be 70 percent more likely to be diagnosed with a rectal cancer and 40 percent more likely for bladder cancer than the general public.
Paper Context: Because the data cover a wide period of time, during which diagnostic and Repeat analyses removing those men who had prostate cancer initially diagnosed as distant stage disease did not materially change the risk estimates (data not shown). In the 2 to 11 months after prostate cancer diagnosis, there was an increased risk of urinary bladder, kidney, thyroid, and endocrine system cancers and of lymphoma (including both Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin lymphoma). At >120 months from diagnosis, the risk was decreased for all of these malignancies among all patients (see online Supporting Information)