Most women who’ve had early breast cancer are not at high risk for recurrence, Elizabeth Tracey reports
Update: 2025-10-20
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Women who’ve had early breast cancer and been treated can likely lay their worries about recurrence to rest, a new study concludes. Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center director William Nelson says that’s the conclusion of this very large, long term study.
Nelson: They did this monstrous cohort study and they found 476,000 women from 1993 to 2016 who had had breast cancer and they recognized the second primary cancer in about 65,000 of them by 20 years. 13.6% had developed a non breast cancer which is only about 2% greater than what you would have expected otherwise, 5.6% had developed a breast cancer in the other breast and that was only about 3.1% greater than expected. :33
Nelson says women should still be vigilant about follow up after being treated since just as with primary breast cancers catching recurrence early is the best strategy. At Johns Hopkins, I’m Elizabeth Tracey.
Nelson: They did this monstrous cohort study and they found 476,000 women from 1993 to 2016 who had had breast cancer and they recognized the second primary cancer in about 65,000 of them by 20 years. 13.6% had developed a non breast cancer which is only about 2% greater than what you would have expected otherwise, 5.6% had developed a breast cancer in the other breast and that was only about 3.1% greater than expected. :33
Nelson says women should still be vigilant about follow up after being treated since just as with primary breast cancers catching recurrence early is the best strategy. At Johns Hopkins, I’m Elizabeth Tracey.
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