Second primary malignancies of eye and ocular adnexa after a first primary elsewhere in the body

Purpose The eye and its adnexal structures can give rise to first or consecutive primary malignancies or to encounter metastasis. Our aim was to define the characteristics of the second primary neoplasms affecting the eye and its adnexa and find the risk modifying factors for them after malignancies elsewhere in the body. Methods We have queried the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End-Results “SEER”-9 program of the National Cancer Institute for...