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This observational study presented the incidence risk of AF among cancer patients, including specific cancer types, using a population database. The Taiwan Cancer Registry was used to identify cancer patients between 2008 and 2017. The diagnosis of AF was based on the International Classification of Diseases codes (ICD-9-CM: 427.31 or ICD-10-CM: I48.0, I48.1, I48.2, and I48.91) in Taiwan national health insurance research datasets. The incidence of developing AF in the cancer population was calculated as the number of new-onset AF cases per person-year of follow-up during the study period. The overall incidence of AF among cancer patients was 50.99 per 100,000 person-years. Patients aged older than 65 years and males had higher AF incidence rates. Lung cancer males and esophageal cancer females showed the highest AF incidence risk (185.02 and 150.30 per 100,000 person-years, respectively). Our findings identified esophageal, lung, and gallbladder cancers as the top three cancers associated with a higher incidence of AF. 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