for September 2007: What types of cancer are people with EMS getting almost 20 years since onset of EMS?
I don’t know of any study done to ascertain this information, and it’s a genuine shame. As many researchers said earlier, after 15 years or more, one might begin to see cancer developing in people with EMS at a higher rate than the normal population if it were going to happen. I hear from people with EMS who have had cancer in recent years and some of the kinds I hear about are breast cancer (as you might expect since the majority of those with EMS are women – but is it occurring at a higher rate than the general population? I don’t know); prostate cancer; kidney cancer; lymphoma; multiple myeloma; lung cancer; reproductive cancers; brain tumors (cancer or benign) and others. I really wish the national organization would conduct a survey to ascertain what is going on in this area and a few others.
