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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Eur Radiol. 2020 Jul 29;31(1):458–467. doi: 10.1007/s00330-020-07026-x

Table 3.

Subtypes of cancer in patients undergoing lung cancer screening

Overall Cohort SPLC Patients
Cancer No. of Patients (%) No. of Patients (%) Rate of SPLC within cancer type
Breast 205 (37.8%) 11 (30.5%) 5.4%
Head and Neck 105 (19.3%) 7 (19%) 6.7%
Lung 87 (16.0%) 7 (19%) 8.0%
Prostate 66 (12.2%) 3 (8%) 4.5%
Renal cell carcinoma 41 (7.6%) 1 (3%) 2.4%
Thyroid 27 (5.0%) 2 (5.5%) 7.4%
Bladder 22 (4.1%) 1 (3%) 4.5%
Colorectal 22 (4.1%) 2 (5.5%) 9.0%
Melanoma 18 (3.3%) 3 (8%) 16.7%
Lymphoma 11 (1.8%) 1 (3%) 9.1%
Esophagus 6 (1.1%) 0 (0%) 0%
Ovarian 4 (0.7%) 0 (0%) 0%
Gastric 3 (0.6%) 0 (0%) 0%
Cervix 3 (0.6%) 0 (0%) 0%
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia 2 (0.4%) 0 (0%) 0%
Myeloma 1 (0.2%) 0 (0%) 0%

Percentages are ≥100% as 112 patients had more than 1 cancer diagnosis.

SPLC = second primary lung cancer