Outcomes of secondary cancers among myeloma survivors.
8043 Background: With increasing survival, myeloma patients (pts) experience second cancers. We analyzed receipt of surgery and cancer-specific survival (CSS) among myeloma survivors with common solid tumors, in comparison with pts without myeloma. Methods: We extracted Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) data on pts diagnosed with common cancers in 2004-2013. Among them, we identified myeloma survivors, and we matched each to 50 randomly sampled controls with the same cancer by age, sex, race, and year of diagnosis. We then compared CSS, cumulative incidence function (CIF) for death from the index cancer (but not from myeloma), and receipt of surgery (for non-metastastic, stage-matched tumors only) using a Cox (for hazard ratio, HR), Fine-Gray (for subhazard ratio, SHR), and conditional logistic models, respectively. Results: Myeloma survivors were significantly older ( P<.001), and more often black (except in bladder cancer) than pts with respective cancers from the general population. In the case-control analysis, breast ( P=.002) and lung cancers ( P=.003) were more often diagnosed at an early stage among myeloma survivors. Receipt of surgery did not significantly differ, except for lower use of prostatectomy in myeloma survivors (odds ratio, 0.59, 95%CI, 0.44-0.81). CSS significantly differed only in lung cancer, and was better among myeloma survivors even when stratified by stage. CIF of cancer death was significantly lower for myeloma cases with lung and colorectal cancer. Conclusions: Despite additional competing mortality from recurrent myeloma, myeloma survivors have similar CSS and CIF of death after common cancers compared with other pts. This highlights the need to treat them similarly to other pts, without assuming a poor prognosis. Better outcomes in lung cancer are not fully explained by earlier detection, suggesting a biological difference. [Table: see text]