PubMed ID: 6696029
Author(s): Albert DM, McGhee CN, Seddon JM, Weichselbaum RR. Development of additional primary tumors after 62 years in the first patient with retinoblastoma cured by radiation therapy. Am J Ophthalmol. 1984 Feb;97(2):189-96. PMID 6696029
Journal: American Journal Of Ophthalmology, Volume 97, Issue 2, Feb 1984
In the first well-documented case of bilateral retinoblastoma to be cured by X-irradiation of the nonenucleated eye, a basal cell carcinoma and then a squamous cell carcinoma of the eyelids developed 60 years after the original treatment. The patient, a 66-year-old man, had been treated by Verhoeff between 1917 and 1919. These new tumors may have been examples of second primary tumors, found in about 0.5% to 2.5% of patients with bilateral retinoblastoma, or they may have been coincidental. Because of the 60-year period between the patient’s original treatment and the development of these tumors, it seems unlikely that they were the result of the irradiation.