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Smita Bhatia

I have to worry about a secondary cancer AND myeloma?

The 5-year survival rate among patients with cancer is now 66%.[1] For childhood cancer, progress in diagnosis and treatment has transformed a once uniformly fatal disease into a group of malignancies that are now curable in most patients. With the increasing use of risk-based high-intensity therapy and the resulting improvement in survival, the number of cancer survivors is growing rapidly[1]; in the United States, the number of cancer survivors.