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Beevors LI, Sundar S, Foster PA. Steroid metabolism and hormonal dynamics in normal and malignant ovaries. Essays Biochem 2024:EBC20240028. [PMID: 38994724 DOI: 10.1042/ebc20240028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2024] [Revised: 06/18/2024] [Accepted: 06/24/2024] [Indexed: 07/13/2024]
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The ovaries are key steroid hormone production sites in post-pubertal females. However, current research on steroidogenic enzymes, endogenous hormone concentrations and their effects on healthy ovarian function and malignant development is limited. Here, we discuss the importance of steroid enzymes in normal and malignant ovaries, alongside hormone concentrations, receptor expression and action. Key enzymes include STS, 3β-HSD2, HSD17B1, ARK1C3, and aromatase, which influence ovarian steroidal action. Both androgen and oestrogen action, via their facilitating enzyme, drives ovarian follicle activation, development and maturation in healthy ovarian tissue. In ovarian cancer, some data suggest STS and oestrogen receptor α may be linked to aggressive forms, while various oestrogen-responsive factors may be involved in ovarian cancer metastasis. In contrast, androgen receptor expression and action vary across ovarian cancer subtypes. For future studies investigating steroidogenesis and steroidal activity in ovarian cancer, it is necessary to differentiate between disease subtypes for a comprehensive understanding.
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- Lucy I Beevors
- Institute of Metabolism and Systems Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, U.K
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- Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, U.K
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- Institute of Metabolism and Systems Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, U.K
- Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolism, Birmingham Health Partners, Birmingham, U.K
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Saed GM. Is there a link between talcum powder, oxidative stress, and ovarian cancer risk? Expert Rev Anticancer Ther 2024; 24:485-491. [PMID: 38712572 DOI: 10.1080/14737140.2024.2352506] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2023] [Accepted: 05/03/2024] [Indexed: 05/08/2024]
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INTRODUCTION The link between talcum powder use and cancer, particularly ovarian cancer, has been a topic of scientific research and legal debate for several years. Studies have suggested a potential association between long-term talcum powder use in the genital area and an increased risk of ovarian cancer. AREAS COVERED The following report includes up-to-date evidence to support the potential link between talcum powder use and the risk of developing ovarian cancer. The International Agency for Research on Cancer, which is part of the World Health Organization, classified talc-based body powder as possibly carcinogenic to humans when used in the female genital area. However, other studies have not consistently supported this association, and thus more research is needed to establish a clear and definitive link between talcum powder use and cancer. Despite this, recent molecular-level data have linked talc to alterations in redox balance, gene mutations, and inflammatory responses. Specifically, we have identified a role for talc to induce the pro-oxidant state, inhibit apoptosis, and more importantly induced cellular transformation in normal ovarian cells. EXPERT OPINION We presented unequivocal evidence to support our opinion that talc is not biologically inert and induces molecular changes that mimic the hallmarks of cancer.
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- Ghassan M Saed
- C.S. Mott Center for Human Growth and Development, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA
- Department of Oncology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA
- Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA
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Gersekowski K, Na R, Alsop K, Delahunty R, Goode EL, Cunningham JM, Winham SJ, Pharoah PD, Song H, Webb PM. Risk Factors for Ovarian Cancer by BRCA Status: A Collaborative Case-Only Analysis. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2024; 33:586-592. [PMID: 38300121 PMCID: PMC11268497 DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.epi-23-0984] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2023] [Revised: 11/20/2023] [Accepted: 01/30/2024] [Indexed: 02/02/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Women with an inherited pathogenic variant in BRCA1 or BRCA2 have a greatly increased risk of developing ovarian cancer, but the importance of behavioral factors is less clear. We used a case-only design to compare the magnitude of associations with established reproductive, hormonal, and lifestyle risk factors between BRCA mutation carriers and noncarriers. METHODS We pooled data from five studies from the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium including 637 BRCA carriers and 4,289 noncarriers. Covariate-adjusted generalized linear mixed models were used to estimate interaction risk ratios (IRR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI), with BRCA (carrier vs. noncarrier) as the response variable. RESULTS IRRs were above 1.0 for known protective factors including ever being pregnant (IRR = 1.29, 95% CI; 1.00-1.67) and ever using the oral contraceptive pill (1.30, 95% CI; 1.07-1.60), suggesting the protective effects of these factors may be reduced in carriers compared with noncarriers. Conversely, the IRRs for risk factors including endometriosis and menopausal hormone therapy were below 1.0, suggesting weaker positive associations among BRCA carriers. In contrast, associations with lifestyle factors including smoking, physical inactivity, body mass index, and aspirin use did not appear to differ by BRCA status. CONCLUSIONS Our results suggest that associations with hormonal and reproductive factors are generally weaker for those with a pathogenic BRCA variant than those without, while associations with modifiable lifestyle factors are similar for carriers and noncarriers. IMPACT Advice to maintain a healthy weight, be physically active, and refrain from smoking will therefore benefit BRCA carriers as well as noncarriers.
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- Kate Gersekowski
- Population Health Program, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Population Health Program, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- University of Queensland, School of Public Health, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
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- Division of Computational Biology, Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
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- Department of Computational Biomedicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, West Hollywood, California
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Population Health Program, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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Fu Z, Brooks MM, Irvin S, Jordan S, Aben KKH, Anton-Culver H, Bandera EV, Beckmann MW, Berchuck A, Brooks-Wilson A, Chang-Claude J, Cook LS, Cramer DW, Cushing-Haugen KL, Doherty JA, Ekici AB, Fasching PA, Fortner RT, Gayther SA, Gentry-Maharaj A, Giles GG, Goode EL, Goodman MT, Harris HR, Hein A, Kaaks R, Kiemeney LA, Köbel M, Kotsopoulos J, Le ND, Lee AW, Matsuo K, McGuire V, McLaughlin JR, Menon U, Milne RL, Moysich KB, Pearce CL, Pike MC, Qin B, Ramus SJ, Riggan MJ, Rothstein JH, Schildkraut JM, Sieh W, Sutphen R, Terry KL, Thompson PJ, Titus L, van Altena AM, White E, Whittemore AS, Wu AH, Zheng W, Ziogas A, Taylor SE, Tang L, Songer T, Wentzensen N, Webb PM, Risch HA, Modugno F. Lifetime ovulatory years and risk of epithelial ovarian cancer: a multinational pooled analysis. J Natl Cancer Inst 2023; 115:539-551. [PMID: 36688720 PMCID: PMC10165492 DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djad011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2022] [Revised: 11/10/2022] [Accepted: 01/06/2023] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND The role of ovulation in epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) is supported by the consistent protective effects of parity and oral contraceptive use. Whether these factors protect through anovulation alone remains unclear. We explored the association between lifetime ovulatory years (LOY) and EOC. METHODS LOY was calculated using 12 algorithms. Odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) estimated the association between LOY or LOY components and EOC among 26 204 control participants and 21 267 case patients from 25 studies. To assess whether LOY components act through ovulation suppression alone, we compared beta coefficients obtained from regression models with expected estimates assuming 1 year of ovulation suppression has the same effect regardless of source. RESULTS LOY was associated with increased EOC risk (OR per year increase = 1.014, 95% CI = 1.009 to 1.020 to OR per year increase = 1.044, 95% CI = 1.041 to 1.048). Individual LOY components, except age at menarche, also associated with EOC. The estimated model coefficient for oral contraceptive use and pregnancies were 4.45 times and 12- to 15-fold greater than expected, respectively. LOY was associated with high-grade serous, low-grade serous, endometrioid, and clear cell histotypes (ORs per year increase = 1.054, 1.040, 1.065, and 1.098, respectively) but not mucinous tumors. Estimated coefficients of LOY components were close to expected estimates for high-grade serous but larger than expected for low-grade serous, endometrioid, and clear cell histotypes. CONCLUSIONS LOY is positively associated with nonmucinous EOC. Differences between estimated and expected model coefficients for LOY components suggest factors beyond ovulation underlie the associations between LOY components and EOC in general and for non-HGSOC.
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- Zhuxuan Fu
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, USA
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- The School of Public Health, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Netherlands Comprehensive Cancer Organisation, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medicine, Genetic Epidemiology Research Institute, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
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- Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Comprehensive Cancer Center Erlangen-European Metropolitan Region of Nuremberg (EMN), Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
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- Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- Cancer Epidemiology Group, University Cancer Center Hamburg (UCCH), University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, USA
- Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Program in Epidemiology, Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Population Health Sciences, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Comprehensive Cancer Center Erlangen-EMN, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Comprehensive Cancer Center Erlangen-European Metropolitan Region of Nuremberg (EMN), Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Center for Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics and the Cedars Sinai Genomics Core, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- MRC Clinical Trials Unit, Institute of Clinical Trials & Methodology, University College London, London, UK
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- Cancer Epidemiology Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Precision Medicine, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Division of Epidemiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Cedars-Sinai Cancer, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Program in Epidemiology, Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Comprehensive Cancer Center Erlangen-European Metropolitan Region of Nuremberg (EMN), Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Calgary, Foothills Medical Center, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Women’s College Research Institute, Women’s College Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Cancer Control Research, BC Cancer, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Department of Health Science, California State University, Fullerton, Fullerton, CA, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention, Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute, Nagoya, Japan
- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan
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- Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- MRC Clinical Trials Unit, Institute of Clinical Trials & Methodology, University College London, London, UK
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- Cancer Epidemiology Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Precision Medicine, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Cancer Prevention and Control, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
- Department of Population Health and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
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- School of Clinical Medicine, University of New South Wales Medicine and Health, University of New South Wales Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Adult Cancer Program, Lowy Cancer Research Centre, University of New South Wales Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
- Department of Population Health Science and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
- Department of Population Health Science and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Epidemiology Center, College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cancer Prevention and Genetics Program, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Muskie School of Public Policy, Public Health, Portland, ME, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
- Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Population Health and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Genetic Epidemiology Research Institute, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
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- Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- The School of Public Health, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Cancer Genetics Laboratory, Research Division, Peter MacCallum Cancer Center, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Centre for Cancer Research, The Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Women’s Cancer Research Center, Magee-Womens Research Institute and Hillman Cancer Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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Keyvani V, Mahmoudian RA, Mollazadeh S, Kheradmand N, Ghorbani E, Khazaei M, Saeed Al-Hayawi I, Hassanian SM, Ferns GA, Avan A, Anvari K. Insight into RNA-based Therapies for Ovarian Cancer. Curr Pharm Des 2023; 29:2692-2701. [PMID: 37916491 DOI: 10.2174/0113816128270476231023052228] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2023] [Accepted: 09/14/2023] [Indexed: 11/03/2023]
Abstract
Ovarian cancer (OC) is one of the most common malignancies in women and is associated with poor outcomes. The treatment for OC is often associated with resistance to therapies and hence this has stimulated the search for alternative therapeutic approaches, including RNA-based therapeutics. However, this approach has some challenges that include RNA degradation. To solve this critical issue, some novel delivery systems have been proposed. In current years, there has been growing interest in the improvement of RNAbased therapeutics as a promising approach to target ovarian cancer and improve patient outcomes. This paper provides a practical insight into the use of RNA-based therapeutics in ovarian cancers, highlighting their potential benefits, challenges, and current research progress. RNA-based therapeutics offer a novel and targeted approach to treat ovarian cancer by exploiting the unique characteristics of RNA molecules. By targeting key oncogenes or genes responsible for drug resistance, siRNAs can effectively inhibit tumor growth and sensitize cancer cells to conventional therapies. Furthermore, messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines have emerged as a revolutionary tool in cancer immunotherapy. MRNA vaccines can be designed to encode tumor-specific antigens, stimulating the immune system to distinguish and eliminate ovarian cancer cells. A nano-based delivery platform improves the release of loaded RNAs to the target location and reduces the off-target effects. Additionally, off-target effects and immune responses triggered by RNA molecules necessitate careful design and optimization of these therapeutics. Several preclinical and clinical researches have shown promising results in the field of RNA-based therapeutics for ovarian cancer. In a preclinical study, siRNA-mediated silencing of the poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase 1 (PARP1) gene, involved in DNA repair, sensitized ovarian cancer cells to PARP inhibitors, leading to enhanced therapeutic efficacy. In clinical trials, mRNA-based vaccines targeting tumor-associated antigens have demonstrated safety and efficacy in stimulating immune responses in ovarian cancer patients. In aggregate, RNA-based therapeutics represent a promising avenue for the therapy of ovarian cancers. The ability to specifically target oncogenes or stimulate immune responses against tumor cells holds great potential for improving patient outcomes. However, further research is needed to address challenges related to delivery, permanence, and off-target effects. Clinical trials assessing the care and effectiveness of RNAbased therapeutics in larger patient cohorts are warranted. With continued advancements in the field, RNAbased therapeutics have the potential to develop the management of ovarian cancer and provide new hope for patients.
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- Vahideh Keyvani
- Department of Medical Genetics and Molecular Medicine, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
- Medical Genetics Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
- Metabolic Syndrome Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
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- Metabolic Syndrome Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
- Cancer Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
- Basic Sciences Research Institute, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
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- Natural Products and Medicinal Plants Research Center, North Khorasan University of Medical Sciences, Bojnurd, Iran
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- Department of Medical Genetics and Molecular Medicine, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
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- Metabolic Syndrome Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
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- Department of Medical Genetics and Molecular Medicine, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
- Medical Genetics Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
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- Department of Medical Genetics and Molecular Medicine, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
- Medical Genetics Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
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- Division of Medical Education, Brighton & Sussex Medical School, Falmer, Brighton, Sussex BN1 9PH, UK
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- Metabolic Syndrome Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
- College of Medicine, University of Warith Al-Anbiyaa, Karbala, Iraq
- Faculty of Health, School of Biomedical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane 4059, Australia
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- Cancer Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
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Hu J, Xu Z, Ye Z, Li J, Hao Z, Wang Y. The association between single nucleotide polymorphisms and ovarian cancer risk: A systematic review and network meta-analysis. Cancer Med 2022; 12:541-556. [PMID: 35637613 PMCID: PMC9844622 DOI: 10.1002/cam4.4891] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2022] [Revised: 05/10/2022] [Accepted: 05/16/2022] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND The relationship between single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and ovarian cancer (OC) risk remains controversial. This systematic review and network meta-analysis was aimed to determine the association between SNPs and OC risk. METHODS Several databases (PubMed, EMBASE, China National Knowledge Infrastructure, Wanfang databases, China Science and Technology Journal Database, and China Biology Medicine disc) were searched to summarize the association between SNPs and OC published throughout April 2021. Direct meta-analysis was used to identify SNPs that could predict the incidence of OC. Ranking probability resulting from network meta-analysis and the Thakkinstian's algorithm was used to select the most appropriate gene model. The false positive report probability (FPRP) and Venice criteria were further tested for credible relationships. Subgroup analysis was also carried out to explore whether there are racial differences. RESULTS A total of 63 genes and 92 SNPs were included in our study after careful consideration. Fok1 rs2228570 is likely a dominant risk factor for the development of OC compared to other selected genes. The dominant gene model of Fok1 rs2228570 (pooled OR = 1.158, 95% CI: 1.068-1.256) was determined to be the most suitable model with a FPRP <0.2 and moderate credibility. CONCLUSIONS Fok1 rs2228570 is closely linked to OC risk, and the dominant gene model is likely the most appropriate model for estimating OC susceptibility.
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- Jia Hu
- Department of GastroenterologyThe Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South UniversityChangshaChina,Research Center of Digestive DiseaseThe Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South UniversityChangshaChina
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- Department of Pharmacy, Xiangya HospitalCentral South UniversityChangshaChina
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- Department of Oncology, Xiangya HospitalCentral South UniversityChangshaChina
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- Xiangya School of MedicineCentral South UniversityChangshaChina
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- Department of Gastrointestinal SurgeryHebei General HospitalShijiazhuangChina
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- Department of GastroenterologyThe Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South UniversityChangshaChina,Research Center of Digestive DiseaseThe Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South UniversityChangshaChina
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CA-125 Levels Are Predictive of Survival in Low-Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer-A Multicenter Analysis. Cancers (Basel) 2022; 14:cancers14081954. [PMID: 35454861 PMCID: PMC9024456 DOI: 10.3390/cancers14081954] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2022] [Revised: 04/03/2022] [Accepted: 04/03/2022] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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Simple Summary Low-grade serous cancer (LGSC) accounts for approximately 5% of all ovarian cancers. It is characterized by its high resistance to chemotherapy. Cytoreductive surgery, therefore, is the primary treatment modality for this disease and previous studies have shown that complete removal of all visible tumor tissue should be achieved. In this study, 176 women with LGSC were included and most of them had advanced disease stages, where the disease had already spread. CA-125 is a biomarker that has been previously studied in ovarian cancer. We have found that CA-125 level following treatment of LGSC is an important and independent prognostic factor for progression-free and overall survival. It may be a better surrogate for the true amount of residual disease following treatment compared to the gross estimation of visible residual disease during surgery. Abstract Objective: Studies on low-grade serous ovarian cancer (LGSC) are limited by a low number of cases. The aim of this study was to define the prognostic significance of age, stage, and CA-125 levels on survival in a multi-institutional cohort of women with pathologically confirmed LGSC. Methods: Women with LGSC were identified from the collaborative Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium (OCAC). Cases of newly diagnosed primary LGSC were included if peri-operative CA-125 levels were available. Age at diagnosis, FIGO stage, pre- and post-treatment CA-125 levels, residual disease, adjuvant chemotherapy, disease recurrence, and vital status were collected by the participating institutions. Progression-free (PFS) and overall survival (OS) were calculated. Multivariable (MVA) Cox proportional hazard models were used and hazard ratios (HR) calculated. Results: A total of 176 women with LGSC were included in this study; 82% had stage III/IV disease. The median PFS was 2.3 years and the median OS was 6.4 years. Age at diagnosis was not significantly associated with worse PFS (p = 0.23) or OS (p = 0.3) (HR per year: 0.99; 95%CI, 0.96–1.01 and 0.98; 95%CI 0.95–1.01). FIGO stage III/IV was independently associated with PFS (HR 4.26, 95%CI 1.43–12.73) and OS (HR 1.69, 95%CI 0.56–5.05). Elevated CA-125 (≥35 U/mL) at diagnosis was not significantly associated with worse PFS (p = 0.87) or OS (p = 0.78) in MVA. Elevated CA-125 (≥35 U/mL) after completion of primary treatment was independently associated with worse PFS (HR 2.81, 95%CI 1.36–5.81) and OS (HR 6.62, 95%CI 2.45–17.92). In the MVA, residual disease was independently associated with PFS (0.022), but not OS (0.85). Conclusion: Advanced LGSC was associated with poor long-term prognosis. FIGO stage and abnormal post-treatment CA-125 level are key prognostic factors inversely associated with PFS and OS. Highlights: 1. Through a multi-center collaborative effort, data from 176 women with low-grade serous ovarian cancer were analyzed. 2. Although low-grade serous ovarian cancer is often considered indolent, the progression-free and overall survival are poor. 3. Elevated post-treatment CA-125 levels are independently associated with poor survival.
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Yang Y, Chen J, Qin H, Jin Y, Zhang L, Yang S, Wang H, Fu L, Hong E, Yu Y, Lu J, Chang Y, Ni X, Xu M, Shi T, Guo Y. A Novel Germline Compound Heterozygous Mutation of BRCA2 Gene Associated With Familial Peripheral Neuroblastic Tumors in Two Siblings. Front Genet 2021; 12:652718. [PMID: 34367235 PMCID: PMC8343186 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2021.652718] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2021] [Accepted: 05/31/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Objectives To investigate the genetic variants that are responsible for peripheral neuroblastic tumors (PNTs) oncogenesis in one family case. Materials and Methods One family was recruited, including the healthy parents, sister affected by neuroblastoma (NB), and brother who suffered from ganglioneuroma (GN). Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) of germline DNA from all the family members and RNA-seq of tumor RNA from the siblings were performed. Mutants were validated by Sanger sequencing and co-IP was performed to assess the impact of the mutant on chemosensitivity in the SH-SY5Y cell line. Results A novel compound heterozygous mutation of BRCA2 was locked as the cause of carcinogenesis. One allele was BRCA2-S871X (stop-gain) from the siblings’ mother, the other was BRCA2-N372H (missense) from their father. This novel compound heterozygous mutations of the BRCA2 gene associated with PNTs by disordering DNA damage and response (DDR) signal pathway. Moreover, chemosensitivity was reduced in the NB cell line due to the BRCA2-N372H mutant. Conclusion In summary, these results revealed a novel germline compound heterozygous mutation of the BRCA2 gene associated with familial PNTs.
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- Yeran Yang
- Beijing Key Laboratory for Pediatric Diseases of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, MOE Key Laboratory of Major Diseases in Children, National Center for Children's Health, Beijing Children's Hospital, Beijing Pediatric Research Institute, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.,Biobank for Clinical Data and Samples in Pediatric, National Center for Children's Health, Beijing Children's Hospital, Beijing Pediatric Research Institute, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.,Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Big Data-Based Precision Medicine, Beihang University, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, School of Life Sciences, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Surgical Oncology, National Center for Children's Health, Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory for Pediatric Diseases of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, MOE Key Laboratory of Major Diseases in Children, National Center for Children's Health, Beijing Children's Hospital, Beijing Pediatric Research Institute, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.,Biobank for Clinical Data and Samples in Pediatric, National Center for Children's Health, Beijing Children's Hospital, Beijing Pediatric Research Institute, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.,Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Big Data-Based Precision Medicine, Beihang University, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, School of Life Sciences, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Surgical Oncology, National Center for Children's Health, Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Surgical Oncology, National Center for Children's Health, Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Pathology, National Center for Children's Health, Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory for Pediatric Diseases of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, MOE Key Laboratory of Major Diseases in Children, National Center for Children's Health, Beijing Children's Hospital, Beijing Pediatric Research Institute, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.,Biobank for Clinical Data and Samples in Pediatric, National Center for Children's Health, Beijing Children's Hospital, Beijing Pediatric Research Institute, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory for Pediatric Diseases of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, MOE Key Laboratory of Major Diseases in Children, National Center for Children's Health, Beijing Children's Hospital, Beijing Pediatric Research Institute, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.,Biobank for Clinical Data and Samples in Pediatric, National Center for Children's Health, Beijing Children's Hospital, Beijing Pediatric Research Institute, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.,Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Big Data-Based Precision Medicine, Beihang University, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory for Pediatric Diseases of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, MOE Key Laboratory of Major Diseases in Children, National Center for Children's Health, Beijing Children's Hospital, Beijing Pediatric Research Institute, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.,Biobank for Clinical Data and Samples in Pediatric, National Center for Children's Health, Beijing Children's Hospital, Beijing Pediatric Research Institute, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.,Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Big Data-Based Precision Medicine, Beihang University, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory for Pediatric Diseases of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, MOE Key Laboratory of Major Diseases in Children, National Center for Children's Health, Beijing Children's Hospital, Beijing Pediatric Research Institute, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.,Biobank for Clinical Data and Samples in Pediatric, National Center for Children's Health, Beijing Children's Hospital, Beijing Pediatric Research Institute, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.,Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Big Data-Based Precision Medicine, Beihang University, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory for Pediatric Diseases of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, MOE Key Laboratory of Major Diseases in Children, National Center for Children's Health, Beijing Children's Hospital, Beijing Pediatric Research Institute, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.,Biobank for Clinical Data and Samples in Pediatric, National Center for Children's Health, Beijing Children's Hospital, Beijing Pediatric Research Institute, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.,Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Big Data-Based Precision Medicine, Beihang University, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Surgery, Shanghai Children's Medical Center, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, School of Life Sciences, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory for Pediatric Diseases of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, MOE Key Laboratory of Major Diseases in Children, National Center for Children's Health, Beijing Children's Hospital, Beijing Pediatric Research Institute, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.,Biobank for Clinical Data and Samples in Pediatric, National Center for Children's Health, Beijing Children's Hospital, Beijing Pediatric Research Institute, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.,Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Big Data-Based Precision Medicine, Beihang University, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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Modugno F, Fu Z, Jordan SJ, Group A, Chang-Claude J, Fortner RT, Goodman MT, Moysich KB, Schildkraut JM, Berchuck A, Bandera EV, Qin B, Sutphen R, McLaughlin JR, Menon U, Ramus SJ, Gayther SA, Gentry-Maharaj A, Karpinskyj C, Pearce CL, Wu AH, Risch HA, Webb PM. Offspring sex and risk of epithelial ovarian cancer: a multinational pooled analysis of 12 case-control studies. Eur J Epidemiol 2020; 35:1025-1042. [PMID: 32959149 PMCID: PMC7981786 DOI: 10.1007/s10654-020-00682-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2020] [Accepted: 08/26/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
Abstract
While childbearing protects against risk of epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC), few studies have explored the impact on maternal EOC risk of sex of offspring, which may affect the maternal environment during pregnancy. We performed a pooled analysis among parous participants from 12 case-controls studies comprising 6872 EOC patients and 9101 controls. Odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were calculated using multivariable logistic regression for case-control associations and polytomous logistic regression for histotype-specific associations, all adjusted for potential confounders. In general, no associations were found between offspring sex and EOC risk. However, compared to bearing only female offspring, bearing one or more male offspring was associated with increased risk of mucinous EOC (OR = 1.45; 95% CI = 1.01-2.07), which appeared to be limited to women reporting menarche before age 13 compared to later menarche (OR = 1.71 vs 0.99; P-interaction = 0.02). Bearing increasing numbers of male offspring was associated with greater risks of mucinous tumors (OR = 1.31, 1.84, 2.31, for 1, 2 and 3 or more male offspring, respectively; trend-p = 0.005). Stratifying by hormonally-associated conditions suggested that compared to bearing all female offspring, bearing a male offspring was associated with lower risk of endometrioid cancer among women with a history of adult acne, hirsutism, or polycystic ovary syndrome (OR = 0.49, 95% CI = 0.28-0.83) but with higher risk among women without any of those conditions (OR = 1.64 95% CI = 1.14-2.34; P-interaction = 0.003). Offspring sex influences the childbearing-EOC risk relationship for specific histotypes and conditions. These findings support the differing etiologic origins of EOC histotypes and highlight the importance of EOC histotype-specific epidemiologic studies. These findings also suggest the need to better understand how pregnancy affects EOC risk.
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Grants
- R03 CA092776 NCI NIH HHS
- 191. 211 and 182 Cancer Council NSW
- PPD/RPCI.07 Ovarian Cancer Research Fund
- K22 CA138563 NCI NIH HHS
- R01 CA080742 NCI NIH HHS
- NIH-K07 CA095666, R01-CA83918, NIH-K22-CA138563, P30CA072720 NCI NIH HHS
- K07 CA080668 NCI NIH HHS
- R01-CA58598, N01-CN-55424 and N01-PC-67001 NIH HHS
- P01CA17054, P30CA14089, R01CA61132, N01PC67010, R03CA113148, R03CA115195, N01CN025403, NIH HHS
- 6613-1415-53 National Health Research and Development Program, Health Canada
- R01 CA076016 NCI NIH HHS
- R03 CA110797 NCI NIH HHS
- R01 CA063682 NCI NIH HHS
- K07 CA095666 NCI NIH HHS
- AOCS Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
- R01 CA126841 NCI NIH HHS
- R01-CA074850; R01-CA080742 NIH HHS
- K07-CA080668,R01-CA95023, MO1-RR000056 R01-CA126841 NCI NIH HHS
- N01 CN025403 NCI NIH HHS
- N01 PC067010 NCI NIH HHS
- R01 CA106414 NCI NIH HHS
- 00-01389V-20170, 2II0200 California Cancer Research Program
- M01 RR000056 NCRR NIH HHS
- P30 CA072720 NCI NIH HHS
- R01 CA095023 NCI NIH HHS
- 199600, 400413 and 105 400281 National Health & Medical Research Council of Australia
- R21 CA095113 NCI NIH HHS
- R03 CA113148 NCI NIH HHS
- R01 CA058598 NCI NIH HHS
- MC_UU_12023/20 Medical Research Council
- R01 CA074850 NCI NIH HHS
- R01 CA063678 NCI NIH HHS
- MR_UU_12023 MRF
- R01 CA063678 and R01 CA063682 NIH HHS
- 01 GB 9401 German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
- P30 CA014089 NCI NIH HHS
- R01 CA083918 NCI NIH HHS
- R03 CA115195 NCI NIH HHS
- R03 CA115214 NCI NIH HHS
- DAMD17-02-1-0669 DOD Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Program
- R01-CA074850; R01-CA080742); Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute
- DAMD17-01-1- 104 0729 Medical Research and Materiel Command
- P01 CA017054 NCI NIH HHS
- R13 CA110770 NCI NIH HHS
- R01-CA76016 NIH HHS
- R01-CA106414-A2 NIH HHS
- CRTG-00-196-01-CCE American Cancer Society
- DAMD17-98-1-8659 DOD Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Program
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- Francesmary Modugno
- Womens Cancer Research Center, Magee-Womens Research Institute and Hillman Cancer Center, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA.
- Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC, Suite 2130, 300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA.
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA
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- School of Public Health, University of Queensland, Herston, QLD, Australia
- Population Health Department, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Herston, QLD, 4006, Australia
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- Population Health Department, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Herston, QLD, 4006, Australia
- Peter MacCallum Cancer Center, Melbourne, VIC, 3000, Australia
- Centre for Cancer Research, The Westmead Institute for Medical Research, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2145, Australia
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
- Cancer Epidemiology Group, University Cancer Center Hamburg, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Cancer Prevention and Genetics Program, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, 90048, USA
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- Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY, 14263, USA
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia, Box 800717, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- Department of Gynecologic Oncology, Duke University Medical Center, DUMC 3079, Durham, NC, 27710, USA
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- Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, 08903, USA
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- Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, 08903, USA
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- Epidemiology Center, College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
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- Public Health Ontario, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Toronto, ON, M5T3L9, Canada
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- MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, Institute of Clinical Trials and Methodology, University College London, London, WC1V 6LJ, UK
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- Faculty of Medicine, School of Women's and Children's Health, University of NSW Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia
- Adult Cancer Program, Lowy Cancer Research Centre, University of NSW Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia
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- Center for Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics and the Cedars Sinai Genomics Core, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, 90048, USA
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- MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, Institute of Clinical Trials and Methodology, University College London, London, WC1V 6LJ, UK
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- MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, Institute of Clinical Trials and Methodology, University College London, London, WC1V 6LJ, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, USA
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- Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, 06510, USA
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- Population Health Department, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Herston, QLD, 4006, Australia
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Hashemi M, Aftabi S, Moazeni-Roodi A, Sarani H, Wiechec E, Ghavami S. Association of CASP8 polymorphisms and cancer susceptibility: A meta-analysis. Eur J Pharmacol 2020; 881:173201. [PMID: 32442541 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejphar.2020.173201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2020] [Revised: 05/11/2020] [Accepted: 05/13/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Caspase-8 plays is an essential enzyme in apoptosis pathway. Several investigation have been done to identify the relation between CASP8 polymorphisms and different human cancers, but, the findings are still debated. The aim of the current investigation is to assess if CASP8 rs3834129 (-652 6N insertion/deletion), rs1045485 G > C, rs3769818 G > A, rs6723097 A > C, rs3769821 T > C, rs13113 T > A, rs3769825 G > A, rs2293554 A > C, and rs10931936 C > T polymorphisms are linked to susceptibility of cancer. Our team has extracted the eligible studies up to July 4, 2019, from different sources. Pooled odds ratios (ORs) with corresponding 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were estimated to quantitatively evaluate the association between CASP8 polymorphisms and cancer susceptibility. Our results showed that the rs3834129 and rs1045485 polymorphisms meaningfully reduced the risk of cancer, while the rs3769818, rs3769821 and rs3769825 polymorphisms considerably increased cancer susceptibility. No association of rs6723097, rs13113, rs2293554 and rs10931936 polymorphisms was observed with cancer susceptibility. The CASP8 rs3834129 polymorphism reduced the risk of gastrointestinal, digestive tract, colorectal, breast and lung cancers. Furthermore, the cancer risk was decreased in Asian and Caucasian populations as well as population- and hospital-based studies due to this polymorphism. There was not any relation between this gene polymorphism and the risk of prostate and cervical cancer development. Regarding the CASP8 rs1045485 polymorphism, the reduced breast cancer risk along with the risk of cancer in Caucasians, population- and hospital-based studies were observed.
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- Mohammad Hashemi
- Genetics of Non-communicable Disease Research Center, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran; Department of Clinical Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran.
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- Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Science, Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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- Tropical and Communicable Diseases Research Centre, Iranshahr University of Medical Sciences, Iranshahr, Iran; Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Iranshahr University of Medical Sciences, Iranshahr, Iran
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- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran
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- Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Division of Cell Biology, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
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- Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Science, Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada; Faculty of Medicine, University of Technology in Katowice, Katowice, Poland; Research Institute of Oncology and Hematology, CancerCare Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.
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Fletcher NM, Harper AK, Memaj I, Fan R, Morris RT, Saed GM. Molecular Basis Supporting the Association of Talcum Powder Use With Increased Risk of Ovarian Cancer. Reprod Sci 2019; 26:1603-1612. [DOI: 10.1177/1933719119831773] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Genital use of talcum powder and its associated risk of ovarian cancer is an important controversial topic. Epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) cells are known to manifest a persistent prooxidant state. Here we demonstrated that talc induces significant changes in key redox enzymes and enhances the prooxidant state in normal and EOC cells. Using real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, levels of CA-125, caspase-3, nitrate/nitrite, and selected key redox enzymes, including myeloperoxidase (MPO), inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS), superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT), glutathione peroxidase (GPX), and glutathione reductase (GSR), were determined. TaqMan genotype analysis utilizing the QuantStudio 12K Flex was used to assess single-nucleotide polymorphisms in genes corresponding to target enzymes. Cell proliferation was determined by MTT proliferation assay. In all talc-treated cells, there was a significant dose-dependent increase in prooxidant iNOS, nitrate/nitrite, and MPO with a concomitant decrease in antioxidants CAT, SOD, GSR, and GPX ( P < .05). Remarkably, talc exposure induced specific point mutations that are known to alter the activity in some of these key enzymes. Talc exposure also resulted in a significant increase in inflammation as determined by increased tumor marker CA-125 ( P < .05). More importantly, talc exposure significantly induced cell proliferation and decreased apoptosis in cancer cells and to a greater degree in normal cells ( P < .05). These findings are the first to confirm the cellular effect of talc and provide a molecular mechanism to previous reports linking genital use to increased ovarian cancer risk.
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- Nicole M. Fletcher
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA
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- Department of Gynecologic Oncology, Karmanos Cancer Institute, Detroit, MI, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA
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- Department of Gynecologic Oncology, Karmanos Cancer Institute, Detroit, MI, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA
- Department of Gynecologic Oncology, Karmanos Cancer Institute, Detroit, MI, USA
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Association between the BRCA2 rs144848 polymorphism and cancer susceptibility: a meta-analysis. Oncotarget 2018; 8:39818-39832. [PMID: 28418854 PMCID: PMC5503656 DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.16242] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2016] [Accepted: 02/06/2017] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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The BRCA2 gene plays an important role in cancer carcinogenesis, and polymorphisms in this gene have been associated with cancer risk. The BRCA2 rs144848 polymorphism has been associated with several cancers, but results have been inconsistent. In the present study, a meta-analysis was performed to assess the association between the rs144848 polymorphism and cancer risk. Literature was searched from the databases of PubMed, Embase and Google Scholar before April 2016. The fixed or random effects model was used to calculate pooled odd ratios on the basis of heterogeneity. Meta-regression, sensitivity analysis, subgroup analysis and publication bias assessment were also performed using STATA 11.0 software according to Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses 2009. A total of 40 relevant studies from 30 publications including 34,911 cases and 48,329 controls were included in the final meta-analysis. Among them, 22 studies focused on breast cancer, seven on ovarian cancer, five on non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and the remaining six studies examined various other cancers. The meta-analysis results showed that there were significant associations between the rs144848 polymorphism and cancer risk in all genetic models. Stratified by cancer type, the rs144848 polymorphism was associated with non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Stratified by study design, the allele model was associated with breast cancer risk in population-based studies. The meta-analysis suggests that the BRCA2 rs144848 polymorphism may play a role in cancer risk. Further well-designed studies are warranted to confirm these results.
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Zhang Y, Li W, Hong Y, Wu G, He K, Liu D. A systematic analysis of the association studies between CASP8 D302H polymorphisms and breast cancer risk. J Genet 2018; 96:283-289. [PMID: 28674227 DOI: 10.1007/s12041-017-0774-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Caspase 8 (CASP8) is a regulator of apoptosis, whose genetic variation has been reported to be associated with the risk of various cancers. Especially, the single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) rs1045485, which generates the substitution D302H in CASP8, is likely to be associated with breast cancer. Several previous studies have reported the association of CASP8 D302H polymorphism with breast cancer; however, the results are inconsistent. To validate the association between CASP8 D302H polymorphism and breast cancer risk, we performed an updated meta-analysis of 18 studies including 27,807 cases and 32,332 controls. We tested the overall association between this SNP and breast cancer susceptibility and stratified subgroups based on countries where cases are from. We confirmed a significant correlation between CASP8 D302H polymorphism and the reduced breast cancer susceptibility in population from UK, Germany and Poland, but no significant association was observed in other countries, such as Finland or USA. Our findings indicate the relationship of SNP CASP8 D302H and breast cancer would not be universal but only be sensitive in some particular European countries. The genetic difference for diverse countries may be useful in individual and precision medicine or health.
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- Yinliang Zhang
- School of Life Sciences, Anhui University, Hefei City, Anhui 230601, People's Republic of China.
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Tao Y, Sturgis EM, Huang Z, Wang Y, Wei P, Wang JR, Wei Q, Li G. TGFβ1 Genetic Variants Predict Clinical Outcomes of HPV-Positive Oropharyngeal Cancer Patients after Definitive Radiotherapy. Clin Cancer Res 2018; 24:2225-2233. [PMID: 29463556 DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-17-1904] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2017] [Revised: 12/07/2017] [Accepted: 02/14/2018] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Purpose: TGFβ1 plays a critical role in inflammation and immune responses and treatment response and survival. TGFβ1 variants may affect its expression level or functional efficiency, thus modifying tumor status and survival in human papillomavirus (HPV)-positive squamous cell carcinoma of the oropharynx (SCCOP).Experimental Design: We determined tumor HPV16 status and genotyped three TGFβ1 polymorphisms in 564 incident SCCOP patients treated with radiotherapy or chemoradiation. Univariate and multivariable Cox models were used to evaluate the associations between the three polymorphisms and survival.Results: Overall, 85% of patients (482 of 564) had HPV16-positive SCCOP. We found that TGFβ1 rs1982073 had statistically significant associations with survival, whereas TGFβ1 rs1800469 and TGFβ1 rs1800471 did not. Patients with TGFβ1 rs1982073 CT/CC variant genotypes had significantly better overall, disease-specific, and disease-free survival compared with those with the corresponding common homozygous TT genotype (all log-rank: P < 0.001). Furthermore, these genotypes were significantly associated with an approximately 5 times reduced risk of overall death, death owing to disease, and recurrence after multivariable adjustment. Moreover, the stratified analyses by tumor HPV status indicated that the significant effects of TGFβ1 rs1982073 polymorphism on survival were found among HPV16-positive SCCOP patients only. Finally, the functional relevance of these variants was further characterized.Conclusions: Our findings support that the TGFβ1 rs1982073 polymorphism plays a significant role in the prognosis of SCCOP, especially in HPV16-positive SCCOP patients treated with chemoradiation. Prospective studies with larger sample sizes are needed to confirm these findings. Clin Cancer Res; 24(9); 2225-33. ©2018 AACR.
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- Ye Tao
- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Key Laboratory of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Beijing, China.,Department of Head and Neck Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas.,Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China
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- Department of Head and Neck Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas.,Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
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- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Key Laboratory of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Beijing, China.
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- Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
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- Department of Biostatistics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
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- Department of Head and Neck Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
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- Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
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- Department of Head and Neck Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas. .,Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
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Præstegaard C, Jensen A, Jensen SM, Nielsen TSS, Webb PM, Nagle CM, DeFazio A, Høgdall E, Rossing MA, Doherty JA, Wicklund KG, Goodman MT, Modugno F, Moysich K, Ness RB, Edwards R, Matsuo K, Hosono S, Goode EL, Winham SJ, Fridley BL, Cramer DW, Terry KL, Schildkraut JM, Berchuck A, Bandera EV, Paddock LE, Massuger LF, Wentzensen N, Pharoah P, Song H, Whittemore A, McGuire V, Sieh W, Rothstein J, Anton-Culver H, Ziogas A, Menon U, Gayther SA, Ramus SJ, Gentry-Maharaj A, Wu AH, Pearce CL, Pike M, Lee AW, Sutphen R, Chang-Claude J, Risch HA, Kjaer SK. Cigarette smoking is associated with adverse survival among women with ovarian cancer: Results from a pooled analysis of 19 studies. Int J Cancer 2017; 140:2422-2435. [PMID: 28063166 PMCID: PMC5489656 DOI: 10.1002/ijc.30600] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2016] [Revised: 10/26/2016] [Accepted: 12/09/2016] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Cigarette smoking is associated with an increased risk of developing mucinous ovarian tumors but whether it is associated with ovarian cancer survival overall or for the different histotypes is unestablished. Furthermore, it is unknown whether the association between cigarette smoking and survival differs according to strata of ovarian cancer stage at diagnosis. In a large pooled analysis, we evaluated the association between various measures of cigarette smoking and survival among women with epithelial ovarian cancer. We obtained data from 19 case-control studies in the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium (OCAC), including 9,114 women diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Cox regression models were used to estimate adjusted study-specific hazard ratios (HRs), which were combined into pooled hazard ratios (pHR) with corresponding 95% confidence intervals (CIs) under random effects models. Overall, 5,149 (57%) women died during a median follow-up period of 7.0 years. Among women diagnosed with ovarian cancer, both current (pHR = 1.17, 95% CI: 1.08-1.28) and former smokers (pHR = 1.10, 95% CI: 1.02-1.18) had worse survival compared with never smoking women. In histotype-stratified analyses, associations were observed for mucinous (current smoking: pHR = 1.91, 95% CI: 1.01-3.65) and serous histotypes (current smoking: pHR = 1.11, 95% CI: 1.00-1.23; former smoking: pHR = 1.12, 95% CI: 1.04-1.20). Further, our results suggested that current smoking has a greater impact on survival among women with localized than disseminated disease. The identification of cigarette smoking as a modifiable factor associated with survival has potential clinical importance as a focus area to improve ovarian cancer prognosis.
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- Camilla Præstegaard
- Virus, Lifestyle and Genes, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Virus, Lifestyle and Genes, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Statistics, Bioinformatics and Registry, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Virus, Lifestyle and Genes, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Population Health Department, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Herston, QLD, Australia
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- Population Health Department, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Herston, QLD, Australia
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- Centre for Cancer Research, The Westmead Millenium Institute for Medical Research, The University of Sydney Westmead, NSW, Australia
- Department of Gynecological Oncology, Westmead Hospital, Westmead, NSW, Australia
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- Virus, Lifestyle and Genes, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Molecular Unit, Department of Pathology, Herlev Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Program in Epidemiology, Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
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- Department of Epidemiology, The Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
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- Program in Epidemiology, Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
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- Cancer Prevention and Control, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
- Community and Population Health Research Institute, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
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- Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Division of Gynecologic Oncology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, PA
- Ovarian Cancer Center of Excellence, Womens Cancer Research Program, Magee-Womens Research Institute and University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
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- Department of Cancer Prevention and Control, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY
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- School of Public Health, The University of Texas, Houston, TX
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- Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Division of Gynecologic Oncology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA
- Ovarian Cancer Center of Excellence, Womens Cancer Research Program, Magee-Womens Research Institute and University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
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- Division of Molecular Medicine, Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
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- Division of Epidemiology and Prevention, Aichi Cancer Center Research institute, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
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- Department of Health Science Research, Division of Epidemiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
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- Department of Health Science Research, Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
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- Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA
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- Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA
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- Department of Public Health Science, School of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
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- Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ
- Rutgers School of Public Health, Piscataway, NJ
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- New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services, Trenton, NJ
- School of Public Health, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ
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- Department of Gynaecology, Radboud University Medical Center, Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD
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- Department of Oncology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research laboratory, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Oncology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research laboratory, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Health Research and Policy - Epidemiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
- Departments of Health Research & Policy and of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
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- Department of Health Research and Policy - Epidemiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
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- Departments of Population Health Science & Policy and of Genetics & Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
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- Departments of Population Health Science & Policy and of Genetics & Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
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- Department of Epidemiology, Center for Cancer Genetics Research & Prevention, School of Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA
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- Women’s Cancer, Institute for Women’s Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Center for Cancer Prevention and Translational Genomics, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
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- School of Women’s and Children’s Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- The Kinghorn Cancer Centre, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
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- Department of Health Science, California State University, Fullerton, CA
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- Epidemiology Center, College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- University Cancer Center Hamburg (UCCH), University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT
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- Virus, Lifestyle and Genes, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Gynecology, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Saed GM, Diamond MP, Fletcher NM. Updates of the role of oxidative stress in the pathogenesis of ovarian cancer. Gynecol Oncol 2017; 145:595-602. [PMID: 28237618 DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2017.02.033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2016] [Revised: 02/16/2017] [Accepted: 02/20/2017] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Clinical and epidemiological investigations have provided evidence supporting the role of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and reactive nitrogen species (RNS), collectively known as oxidative stress, in the etiology of cancer. Exogenous factors such as chronic inflammation, infection and hypoxia are major sources of cellular oxidative stress. Specifically, oxidative stress plays an important role in the pathogenesis, neoangiogenesis, and dissemination of local or distant ovarian cancer, as it is known to induce phenotypic modifications of tumor cells by cross talk between tumor cells and the surrounding stroma. Subsequently, the biological significance of the relationship between oxidative stress markers and various stages of epithelial ovarian cancer highlights potential therapeutic interventions as well as provides urgently needed early detection biomarkers. In the light of our scientific research and the most recent experimental and clinical observations, this review provides the reader with up to date most relevant findings on the role of oxidative stress in the pathogenesis of ovarian cancer and the possible therapeutic implications.
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- Ghassan M Saed
- The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, United States.
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- The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Augusta University, Augusta, GA, United States
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- The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, United States
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Rasmussen CB, Kjaer SK, Albieri V, Bandera EV, Doherty JA, Høgdall E, Webb PM, Jordan SJ, Rossing MA, Wicklund KG, Goodman MT, Modugno F, Moysich KB, Ness RB, Edwards RP, Schildkraut JM, Berchuck A, Olson SH, Kiemeney LA, Massuger LFAG, Narod SA, Phelan CM, Anton-Culver H, Ziogas A, Wu AH, Pearce CL, Risch HA, Jensen A. Pelvic Inflammatory Disease and the Risk of Ovarian Cancer and Borderline Ovarian Tumors: A Pooled Analysis of 13 Case-Control Studies. Am J Epidemiol 2017; 185:8-20. [PMID: 27941069 PMCID: PMC5209588 DOI: 10.1093/aje/kww161] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2015] [Accepted: 05/26/2016] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Inflammation has been implicated in ovarian carcinogenesis. However, studies investigating the association between pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) and ovarian cancer risk are few and inconsistent. We investigated the association between PID and the risk of epithelial ovarian cancer according to tumor behavior and histotype. We pooled data from 13 case-control studies, conducted between 1989 and 2009, from the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium (OCAC), including 9,162 women with ovarian cancers, 2,354 women with borderline tumors, and 14,736 control participants. Study-specific odds ratios were estimated and subsequently combined into a pooled odds ratio using a random-effects model. A history of PID was associated with an increased risk of borderline tumors (pooled odds ratio (pOR) = 1.32, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.10, 1.58). Women with at least 2 episodes of PID had a 2-fold increased risk of borderline tumors (pOR = 2.14, 95% CI: 1.08, 4.24). No association was observed between PID and ovarian cancer risk overall (pOR = 0.99, 95% CI: 0.83, 1.19); however, a statistically nonsignificantly increased risk of low-grade serous tumors (pOR = 1.48, 95% CI: 0.92, 2.38) was noted. In conclusion, PID was associated with an increased risk of borderline ovarian tumors, particularly among women who had had multiple episodes of PID. Although our results indicated a histotype-specific association with PID, the association of PID with ovarian cancer risk is still somewhat uncertain and requires further investigation.
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- Correspondence to Dr. Allan Jensen, Virus, Lifestyle and Genes Unit, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark (e-mail: )
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Fletcher NM, Belotte J, Saed MG, Memaj I, Diamond MP, Morris RT, Saed GM. Specific point mutations in key redox enzymes are associated with chemoresistance in epithelial ovarian cancer. Free Radic Biol Med 2017; 102:122-132. [PMID: 27890641 DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2016.11.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2016] [Revised: 11/06/2016] [Accepted: 11/14/2016] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Oxidative stress plays an important role in the pathophysiology of ovarian cancer. Resistance to chemotherapy presents a significant challenge for ovarian cancer treatment. Specific single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in key redox enzymes have been associated with ovarian cancer survival and progression. The objective of this study was to determine whether chemotherapy induces point mutations in key redox enzymes that lead to the acquisition of chemoresistance in epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC). Human EOC cell lines and their chemoresistant counterpart were utilized for this study. Specific SNPs in key redox enzymes were analyzed by TaqMan SNP Genotyping. Activities and levels of key redox enzymes were determined by real-time RT-PCR, ELISA and a greiss assay. Point mutations in key redox enzymes were introduced into sensitive EOC cells via the CRISPR/Cas9 system. Cell viability and IC50 for cisplatin were determined by the MTT Cell Proliferation Assay. Data was analyzed with SPSS using Student's two-tailed t-tests and One-way ANOVA followed by Dunnett's or Tukey's post hoc tests, p<0.05. Here, we demonstrate that chemoresistant EOC cells are characterized by a further enhancement in oxidative stress as compared to sensitive counterparts. Additionally, chemoresistant EOC cells manifested specific point mutations, which are associated with altered enzymatic activity, in key redox enzymes that are not detected in sensitive counterparts. Supplementation of an antioxidant was able to successfully sensitize EOC cells to chemotherapeutics. Causality was established by the induction of these point mutations in sensitive EOC cells, which resulted in a significant increase in the level of chemoresistance. These findings indicate that chemotherapy induces specific point mutations in key redox enzymes that contribute to the acquisition of chemoresistance in EOC cells, highlighting a potential novel mechanism. Identification of targets for chemoresistance with either biomarker and/or screening potential will have a significant impact for the treatment of this disease.
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- Nicole M Fletcher
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The C.S. Mott Center for Human Growth and Development, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI 48201, USA.
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The C.S. Mott Center for Human Growth and Development, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI 48201, USA.
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The C.S. Mott Center for Human Growth and Development, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI 48201, USA.
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The C.S. Mott Center for Human Growth and Development, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI 48201, USA; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Augusta University, Augusta, GA 30912, USA; Karmanos Cancer Institute, Detroit, MI 48201, USA.
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Augusta University, Augusta, GA 30912, USA.
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The C.S. Mott Center for Human Growth and Development, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI 48201, USA.
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Præstegaard C, Kjaer SK, Nielsen TSS, Jensen SM, Webb PM, Nagle CM, Høgdall E, Risch HA, Rossing MA, Doherty JA, Wicklund KG, Goodman MT, Modugno F, Moysich K, Ness RB, Edwards RP, Goode EL, Winham SJ, Fridley BL, Cramer DW, Terry KL, Schildkraut JM, Berchuck A, Bandera EV, Paddock L, Kiemeney LA, Massuger LF, Wentzensen N, Pharoah P, Song H, Whittemore AS, McGuire V, Sieh W, Rothstein J, Anton-Culver H, Ziogas A, Menon U, Gayther SA, Ramus SJ, Gentry-Maharaj A, Wu AH, Pearce CL, Pike MC, Lee AW, Chang-Claude J, Jensen A. The association between socioeconomic status and tumour stage at diagnosis of ovarian cancer: A pooled analysis of 18 case-control studies. Cancer Epidemiol 2016; 41:71-9. [PMID: 26851750 PMCID: PMC4993452 DOI: 10.1016/j.canep.2016.01.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2015] [Revised: 01/15/2016] [Accepted: 01/20/2016] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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PURPOSE Socioeconomic status (SES) is a known predictor of survival for several cancers and it has been suggested that SES differences affecting tumour stage at diagnosis may be the most important explanatory factor for this. However, only a limited number of studies have investigated SES differences in tumour stage at diagnosis of ovarian cancer. In a pooled analysis, we investigated whether SES as represented by level of education is predictive for advanced tumour stage at diagnosis of ovarian cancer, overall and by histotype. The effect of cigarette smoking and body mass index (BMI) on the association was also evaluated. METHODS From 18 case-control studies, we obtained information on 10,601 women diagnosed with epithelial ovarian cancer. Study specific odds ratios (ORs) with corresponding 95% confidence intervals (CI) were obtained from logistic regression models and combined into a pooled odds ratio (pOR) using a random effects model. RESULTS Overall, women who completed ≤high school had an increased risk of advanced tumour stage at diagnosis compared with women who completed >high school (pOR 1.15; 95% CI 1.03-1.28). The risk estimates for the different histotypes of ovarian cancer resembled that observed for ovarian cancers combined but did not reach statistical significance. Our results were unchanged when we included BMI and cigarette smoking. CONCLUSION Lower level of education was associated with an increased risk of advanced tumour stage at diagnosis of ovarian cancer. The observed socioeconomic difference in stage at diagnosis of ovarian cancer calls for further studies on how to reduce this diagnostic delay.
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- Camilla Præstegaard
- Virus, Lifestyle and Genes, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Virus, Lifestyle and Genes, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark; Department of Gynecology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Blegdamsvej 9, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Virus, Lifestyle and Genes, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Statistics, Bioinformatics and Registry, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Population Health Department, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, 300 Herston Rd, Herston, Queensland 4006, Brisbane, Australia; Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Population Health Department, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, 300 Herston Rd, Herston, Queensland 4006, Brisbane, Australia
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- Virus, Lifestyle and Genes, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark; Molecular Unit, Department of Pathology, Herlev Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev Ringvej 75, DK-2730 Herlev, Denmark
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- Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health, LEPH 413, 60 College Street, New Haven, CT 06510, USA
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- Program in Epidemiology, Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, PO Box 19024, Seattle, WA 98109-1024, USA; Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, PO Box 19024, Seattle, WA 98109-1024, USA
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- Department of Community and Family Medicine, Section of Biostatistics & Epidemiology, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, 1 Medical Center Drive, 7927 Rubin Building, Room 884, Lebanon, Hanover, NH 03756, USA
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- Program in Epidemiology, Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, PO Box 19024, Seattle, WA 98109-1024, USA
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- Cancer Prevention and Control, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 8700 Beverly Blvd., Room 1S37, Los Angeles 90048, CA, USA; Community and Population Health Research Institute, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 8700 Beverly Blvd., Room 1S37, Los Angeles 90048, CA, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Division of Gynecologic Oncology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Magee-Womens Hospital, 300 Halket Street (Room #2130), Pittsburgh, PA 15222, USA; Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Magee-Womens Hospital, 300 Halket Street (Room #2130), Pittsburgh, PA 15222, USA; Womens Cancer Research Program, Magee-Womens Research Institute and University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Magee-Womens Hospital, 300 Halket Street (Room #2130), Pittsburgh, PA 15222, USA
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- Department of Cancer Prevention and Control, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Elm and Carlton Streets, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA
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- The University of Texas, School of Public Health, P.O. Box 20186, Houston, TX 77225, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Magee-Womens Hospital, 300 Halket Street (Room #2130), Pittsburgh, PA 15222, USA
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- Department of Health Science Research, Division of Epidemiology, Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street SW, Charlton 6, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Kansas, 5028B Robinson Building, 3901 Rainbow Blvd, Kansas City, KS 66160, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Kansas, 5028B Robinson Building, 3901 Rainbow Blvd, Kansas City, KS 66160, USA
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- Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 221 Longwood Avenue, RFB 368, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 221 Longwood Avenue, RFB 368, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 221 Longwood Avenue, RFB 368, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Virginia, Box: 800717, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Duke University Medical Center, 3079, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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- Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, 195 Little Albany Street, Room 5568, New Brunswick, NJ 08903, USA
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- New Jersey State Cancer registry, PO Box 369, Trenton, NJ 08625-0369, USA; Rutgers School of Public Health, Piscataway, NJ, USA
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- Department for Health Evidence, Radboud University Medical Center, PO Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Department of Urology, Radboud University Medical Center, PO Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Radboud University Medical Center, PO Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, 6120 Executive Blvd, Rockville, MD 20852, USA
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- Department of Oncology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Wortscauseway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, United Kingdom
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- Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Wortscauseway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, United Kingdom
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- Department of Health Research and Policy-Epidemiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, 259 Campus Drive, Stanford, CA 94305-5405, USA
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- Department of Health Research and Policy-Epidemiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, 259 Campus Drive, Stanford, CA 94305-5405, USA
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- Department of Health Research and Policy-Epidemiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, 259 Campus Drive, Stanford, CA 94305-5405, USA
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- Department of Health Research and Policy-Epidemiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, 259 Campus Drive, Stanford, CA 94305-5405, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of California Irvine, Center for Cancer Genetics Research & Prevention, School of Medicine, 224 Irvine Hall, Irvine, CA 92697-7550, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of California Irvine, 224 Irvine Hall, Irvine, CA 92697-7550, USA
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- Women's Cancer, UCL EGA Institute for Women's Health, Maple House 1st Floor, 149 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 7DN, United Kingdom
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- Women's Cancer, UCL EGA Institute for Women's Health, Maple House 1st Floor, 149 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 7DN, United Kingdom
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Harlyne Norris Research Tower 1450 Biggy Street, Office 2517G, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA
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- Women's Cancer, UCL EGA Institute for Women's Health, Maple House 1st Floor, 149 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 7DN, United Kingdom
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Harlyne Norris Research Tower 1450 Biggy Street, Office 2517G, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Harlyne Norris Research Tower 1450 Biggy Street, Office 2517G, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA; Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health, 1415 Washington Heights, SPH Tower, Office #4642, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2029, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Harlyne Norris Research Tower 1450 Biggy Street, Office 2517G, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA; Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 307 East 63rd Street, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Harlyne Norris Research Tower 1450 Biggy Street, Office 2517G, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA
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- German Cancer Research Center, Division of Cancer Epidemiology, Postfach 101949, 69009 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Virus, Lifestyle and Genes, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Su L, Wang J, Tao Y, Shao X, Ding Y, Cheng X, Zhu Y. BRCA2 N372H Polymorphism and Risk of Epithelial Ovarian Cancer: An Updated Meta-Analysis With 2344 Cases and 9672 Controls. Medicine (Baltimore) 2015; 94:e1695. [PMID: 26496279 PMCID: PMC4620813 DOI: 10.1097/md.0000000000001695] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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The BRCA2 N372H is the only common polymorphism that leads to the amino acid change based on the reports up to date. Previous studies explored the relationship between the single nucleotide polymorphism and ovarian cancer risk, but the results were inconsistent or inconclusive.To investigate the association between N372H in BRCA2 gene and ovarian cancer susceptibility, a systematic literature search was performed for related publications in the databases of PubMed, Gene, and Google Scholar.Total 2344 cases and 9672 controls in eligible studies were included in this meta-analysis. χ -based Q test and an I index were used to identify the heterogeneous records. Potential publication biases were assessed by Begg and Egger tests.In the overall analysis, the results showed a significant association between BRCA2 codon 372 polymorphism and increased risk of ovarian cancer (HH versus NN: odds ratio (OR) = 1.22, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.01-1.48, P = 0.037). In the Australia subgroup analysis, significant association was also detected (HH versus NN: OR = 1.40, 95% CI 1.04-1.87, P = 0.026). The subgroup analysis for serous cancer subgroup showed that the significant association could be detected under recessive model (OR = 1.38, 95% CI, 1.01-1.89, P = 0.04) and under homozygote comparison (OR = 1.46, 95% CI, 1.06-2.01, P = 0.022).Our meta-analysis suggests that the N372H polymorphism is associated with susceptibility of ovarian cancer. The allele H might increase the risk of ovarian cancer, especially, for ovarian cancers of the serous subtype.
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- Liangxiang Su
- From the Clinical Laboratory in Nantong Maternity and Child Health Care Hospital (LS, JW, XS, YZ); Pathology Department of Nantong Maternity and Child Health Care Hospital (YT); and Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics of Nantong Maternity and Child Health Care Hospital, Nantong, Jiangsu Province, China (YD, XC)
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Nagle CM, Dixon SC, Jensen A, Kjaer SK, Modugno F, deFazio A, Fereday S, Hung J, Johnatty SE, Fasching PA, Beckmann MW, Lambrechts D, Vergote I, Van Nieuwenhuysen E, Lambrechts S, Risch HA, Rossing MA, Doherty JA, Wicklund KG, Chang-Claude J, Goodman MT, Ness RB, Moysich K, Heitz F, du Bois A, Harter P, Schwaab I, Matsuo K, Hosono S, Goode EL, Vierkant RA, Larson MC, Fridley BL, Høgdall C, Schildkraut JM, Weber RP, Cramer DW, Terry KL, Bandera EV, Paddock L, Rodriguez-Rodriguez L, Wentzensen N, Yang HP, Brinton LA, Lissowska J, Høgdall E, Lundvall L, Whittemore A, McGuire V, Sieh W, Rothstein J, Sutphen R, Anton-Culver H, Ziogas A, Pearce CL, Wu AH, Webb PM. Obesity and survival among women with ovarian cancer: results from the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium. Br J Cancer 2015; 113:817-26. [PMID: 26151456 PMCID: PMC4559823 DOI: 10.1038/bjc.2015.245] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2015] [Revised: 06/01/2015] [Accepted: 06/10/2015] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Observational studies have reported a modest association between obesity and risk of ovarian cancer; however, whether it is also associated with survival and whether this association varies for the different histologic subtypes are not clear. We undertook an international collaborative analysis to assess the association between body mass index (BMI), assessed shortly before diagnosis, progression-free survival (PFS), ovarian cancer-specific survival and overall survival (OS) among women with invasive ovarian cancer. METHODS We used original data from 21 studies, which included 12 390 women with ovarian carcinoma. We combined study-specific adjusted hazard ratios (HRs) using random-effects models to estimate pooled HRs (pHR). We further explored associations by histologic subtype. RESULTS Overall, 6715 (54%) deaths occurred during follow-up. A significant OS disadvantage was observed for women who were obese (BMI: 30-34.9, pHR: 1.10 (95% confidence intervals (CIs): 0.99-1.23); BMI: ⩾35, pHR: 1.12 (95% CI: 1.01-1.25)). Results were similar for PFS and ovarian cancer-specific survival. In analyses stratified by histologic subtype, associations were strongest for women with low-grade serous (pHR: 1.12 per 5 kg m(-2)) and endometrioid subtypes (pHR: 1.08 per 5 kg m(-2)), and more modest for the high-grade serous (pHR: 1.04 per 5 kg m(-2)) subtype, but only the association with high-grade serous cancers was significant. CONCLUSIONS Higher BMI is associated with adverse survival among the majority of women with ovarian cancer.
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- C M Nagle
- Population Health Department, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Population Health Department, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Virus, Lifestyle and Genes, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Virus, Lifestyle and Genes, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Gynecology, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pennsylvania, PA, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Pennsylvania, PA, USA
- Womens Cancer Research Program, Magee-Womens Research Institute and University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pennsylvania, PA, USA
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- Department of Gynaecological Oncology, Westmead Hospital, Westmead, NSW, Australia
- Center for Cancer Research, University of Sydney at the Westmead Millennium Institute, Westmead, NSW, Australia
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- Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, East Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Department of Gynaecological Oncology, Westmead Hospital, Westmead, NSW, Australia
- Center for Cancer Research, University of Sydney at the Westmead Millennium Institute, Westmead, NSW, Australia
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- Genetics and Computational Biology Department, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Population Health Department, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, East Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- David Geffen School of Medicine, Department of Medicine Division of Hematology and Oncology, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Comprehensive Cancer Center Erlangen-EMN, Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Comprehensive Cancer Center Erlangen-EMN, Erlangen, Germany
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- Vesalius Research Center, VIB, Leuven, Belgium
- Department of Oncology, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Leuven Cancer Institute, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Leuven Cancer Institute, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Leuven Cancer Institute, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Program in Epidemiology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Community and Family Medicine, The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH, USA
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- Program in Epidemiology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- School of Public Health, University of Texas, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Cancer Prevention and Control, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY, USA
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- Department of Gynecology and Gynecologic Oncology, Kliniken Essen-Mitte/Evang. Huyssens-Stiftung/Knappschaft GmbH, Essen, Germany
- Department of Gynecology and Gynecologic Oncology, Dr Horst Schmidt Kliniken Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany
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- Department of Gynecology and Gynecologic Oncology, Kliniken Essen-Mitte/Evang. Huyssens-Stiftung/Knappschaft GmbH, Essen, Germany
- Department of Gynecology and Gynecologic Oncology, Dr Horst Schmidt Kliniken Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany
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- Department of Gynecology and Gynecologic Oncology, Kliniken Essen-Mitte/Evang. Huyssens-Stiftung/Knappschaft GmbH, Essen, Germany
- Department of Gynecology and Gynecologic Oncology, Dr Horst Schmidt Kliniken Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany
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- Institut für Humangenetik Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
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- Division of Epidemiology and Prevention, Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Kansas, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Department of Gynecology, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
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- New Jersey State Cancer Registry, Trenton, NJ, USA
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- Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention, M. Sklodowska-Curie Cancer Center, Warsaw, Poland
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- Virus, Lifestyle and Genes, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Molecular Unit, Department of Pathology, Herlev Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Gynecology, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Health Research and Policy–Epidemiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Health Research and Policy–Epidemiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Health Research and Policy–Epidemiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Health Research and Policy–Epidemiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Epidemiology Center, College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, USA
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- Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Population Health Department, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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Belotte J, Fletcher NM, Saed MG, Abusamaan MS, Dyson G, Diamond MP, Saed GM. A Single Nucleotide Polymorphism in Catalase Is Strongly Associated with Ovarian Cancer Survival. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0135739. [PMID: 26301412 PMCID: PMC4547699 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0135739] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2015] [Accepted: 07/25/2015] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Ovarian cancer is the deadliest of all gynecologic cancers. Recent evidence demonstrates an association between enzymatic activity altering single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) with human cancer susceptibility. We sought to evaluate the association of SNPs in key oxidant and antioxidant enzymes with increased risk and survival in epithelial ovarian cancer. Individuals (n = 143) recruited were divided into controls, (n = 94): healthy volunteers, (n = 18), high-risk BRCA1/2 negative (n = 53), high-risk BRCA1/2 positive (n = 23) and ovarian cancer cases (n = 49). DNA was subjected to TaqMan SNP genotype analysis for selected oxidant and antioxidant enzymes. Of the seven selected SNP studied, no association with ovarian cancer risk (Pearson Chi-square) was found. However, a catalase SNP was identified as a predictor of ovarian cancer survival by the Cox regression model. The presence of this SNP was associated with a higher likelihood of death (hazard ratio (HR) of 3.68 (95% confidence interval (CI): 1.149–11.836)) for ovarian cancer patients. Kaplan-Meier survival analysis demonstrated a significant median overall survival difference (108 versus 60 months, p<0.05) for those without the catalase SNP as compared to those with the SNP. Additionally, age at diagnosis greater than the median was found to be a significant predictor of death (HR of 2.78 (95% CI: 1.022–7.578)). This study indicates a strong association with the catalase SNP and survival of ovarian cancer patients, and thus may serve as a prognosticator.
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- Jimmy Belotte
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The C.S. Mott Center for Human Growth and Development, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, United States of America
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The C.S. Mott Center for Human Growth and Development, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, United States of America
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The C.S. Mott Center for Human Growth and Development, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, United States of America
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The C.S. Mott Center for Human Growth and Development, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, United States of America
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- Karmanos Cancer Institute, Detroit, MI, United States of America
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, GA, United States of America
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The C.S. Mott Center for Human Growth and Development, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, United States of America
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Analyze Association of BRCA2 Arg372His Polymorphism With Ovarian Cancer Risk. Int J Gynecol Cancer 2015; 25:1338-44. [PMID: 26111274 DOI: 10.1097/igc.0000000000000499] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE Studies investigating the association between BRCA2 Arg372His polymorphism and ovarian cancer risks have yielded conflicting results. METHODS We carried out a meta-analysis of 8488 ovarian cancer cases and 14,510 controls from 7 case-control studies in 5 articles published. The association between BRCA2 Arg372His polymorphism and ovarian cancer susceptibility was calculated using pooled odds ratios (ORs) appropriately derived from fixed effects models. RESULTS There were no significant associations between BRCA2 Arg372His polymorphisms and ovarian cancer risk in overall comparisons in all genetic models (HH vs NN: OR, 1.06; 95% confidence interval [95% CI], 0.96-1.18; P = 0.25; NH vs NN: OR, 1.02; 95% CI, 0.96-1.07; P = 0.6; NH + HH vs NN: OR, 1.01; 95% CI, 0.98-1.04; P = 0.42; HH vs NN + NH: OR, 1.06; 95% CI, 0.95-1.17; P = 0.29). CONCLUSIONS This meta-analysis indicates that the BRCA2 Arg372His polymorphism is not associated with ovarian cancer risk for whites. Asian and African populations should be further studied.
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Zheng LY, Song AP, Chen L, Liu DG, Li XH, Guo HY, Tian XX, Fang WG. Association of genetic polymorphisms in AURKA, BRCA1, CCNE1 and CDK2 with the risk of endometrial carcinoma and clinicopathological parameters among Chinese Han women. Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol 2015; 184:65-72. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ejogrb.2014.11.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2013] [Revised: 10/13/2014] [Accepted: 11/11/2014] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Qin J, He XF, Wei W, Liu ZZ, Xie JJ, Wang W, Du YP, Chen Y, Si HQ. Association between the STK15 polymorphisms and risk of cancer: a meta-analysis. Mol Genet Genomics 2014; 290:97-114. [DOI: 10.1007/s00438-014-0895-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2014] [Accepted: 07/30/2014] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Gibson DA, Simitsidellis I, Collins F, Saunders PTK. Evidence of androgen action in endometrial and ovarian cancers. Endocr Relat Cancer 2014; 21:T203-18. [PMID: 24623742 DOI: 10.1530/erc-13-0551] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Endometrial cancer (EC) and ovarian cancer are common gynaecological malignancies. The impact of androgen action in these cancers is poorly understood; however, there is emerging evidence to suggest that targeting androgen signalling may be of therapeutic benefit. Epidemiological evidence suggests that there is an increased risk of EC associated with exposure to elevated levels of androgens, and genetic variants in genes related to both androgen biosynthesis and action are associated with an increased risk of both EC and ovarian cancer. Androgen receptors (ARs) may be a potential therapeutic target in EC due to reported anti-proliferative activities of androgens. By contrast, androgens may promote growth of some ovarian cancers and anti-androgen therapy has been proposed. Introduction of new therapies targeting ARs expressed in EC or ovarian cancer will require a much greater understanding of the impacts of cell context-specific AR-dependent signalling and how ARs can crosstalk with other steroid receptors during progression of disease. This review considers the evidence that androgens may be important in the aetiology of EC and ovarian cancer with discussion of evidence for androgen action in normal and malignant endometrial and ovarian tissue.
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- Douglas A Gibson
- MRC Centre for Reproductive HealthThe University of Edinburgh, The Queen's Medical Research Institute, 47 Little France Crescent, Edinburgh EH16 4TJ, UK
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- MRC Centre for Reproductive HealthThe University of Edinburgh, The Queen's Medical Research Institute, 47 Little France Crescent, Edinburgh EH16 4TJ, UK
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- MRC Centre for Reproductive HealthThe University of Edinburgh, The Queen's Medical Research Institute, 47 Little France Crescent, Edinburgh EH16 4TJ, UK
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- MRC Centre for Reproductive HealthThe University of Edinburgh, The Queen's Medical Research Institute, 47 Little France Crescent, Edinburgh EH16 4TJ, UK
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STK15 rs2273535 polymorphism and cancer risk: a meta-analysis of 74,896 subjects. Cancer Epidemiol 2013; 38:111-7. [PMID: 24252226 DOI: 10.1016/j.canep.2013.10.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2013] [Revised: 10/20/2013] [Accepted: 10/21/2013] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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BACKGROUND It has been suggested that the serine/threonine kinase 15 (STK15) T91A rs2273535 polymorphism is associated with susceptibility to cancer. However, the results are conflicting. We performed this meta-analysis to derive a more precise estimation of the relationship. METHODS PubMed was searched to select studies. Case-control studies containing available genotype frequencies of the STK15 rs2273535 polymorphism were chosen, and the odds ratio (OR) with its 95% confidence interval (CI) was utilized to assess the strength of association. RESULTS 52 studies - including 34,057 cases and 40,839 controls - were identified. A significant effect of the STK15 rs2273535 polymorphism on cancer risk was found (AA vs. TT: OR=1.13, 95%CI=1.01-1.26, Pheterogeneity<0.001; AA vs. TA/TT OR=1.12, 95%CI=1.02-1.22, Pheterogeneity<0.001; TA/AA vs. TT: OR=1.06, 95%CI=1.01-1.12, Pheterogeneity<0.001). Stratified analysis by cancer type revealed that the STK rs2273535 polymorphism may contribute to the risk of breast cancer (AA vs. TT: OR=1.21, 95%CI=1.01-1.44, Pheterogeneity=0.002), colorectal cancer (AA vs. TA/TT OR=1.24, 95%CI=1.05-1.47, Pheterogeneity=0.124), and esophageal cancer (AA vs. TA/TT OR=1.19, 95%CI=1.02-1.39, Pheterogeneity=0.148). Further subgroup analysis by ethnicity indicated that there was a statistically increased cancer risk in Asians (AA vs. TA/TT OR=1.20, 95%CI=1.05-1.37, Pheterogeneity=0.004). CONCLUSION This meta-analysis suggests that the STK15 rs2273535 polymorphism is a candidate gene polymorphism for cancer susceptibility, especially in Asian populations.
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Charbonneau B, Goode EL, Kalli KR, Knutson KL, Derycke MS. The immune system in the pathogenesis of ovarian cancer. Crit Rev Immunol 2013; 33:137-64. [PMID: 23582060 DOI: 10.1615/critrevimmunol.2013006813] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Clinical outcomes in ovarian cancer are heterogeneous even when considering common features such as stage, response to therapy, and grade. This disparity in outcomes warrants further exploration into tumor and host characteristics. One compelling host characteristic is the immune response to ovarian cancer. While several studies have confirmed a prominent role for the immune system in modifying the clinical course of the disease, recent genetic and protein analyses also suggest a role in disease incidence. Recent studies also show that anti-tumor immunity is often negated by immune suppressive cells present in the tumor microenvironment. These suppressive immune cells also directly enhance the pathogenesis through the release of various cytokines and chemokines, which together form an integrated pathologic network. Thus, future research into immunotherapy targeting ovarian cancer will likely become increasingly focused on combination approaches that simultaneously augment immunity while preventing local immune suppression or by disrupting critical cytokine networks.
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- Bridget Charbonneau
- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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Zheng L, Song A, Ruan Y, Chen L, Liu D, Li X, Guo H, Han J, Li Y, Tian X, Fang W. Genetic polymorphisms in AURKA, BRCA1, CCNE1 and CDK2 are associated with ovarian cancer susceptibility among Chinese Han women. Cancer Epidemiol 2013; 37:639-46. [PMID: 23787073 DOI: 10.1016/j.canep.2013.04.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2013] [Revised: 04/22/2013] [Accepted: 04/28/2013] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Centrosome aberrations and cell-cycle deregulation have important implications for ovarian cancer development. The AURKA, BRCA1, CCNE1 and CDK2 genes play pivotal roles in centrosome duplication and cell-cycle regulation. METHODS Using a haplotype-based analysis, this study aimed to investigate whether genetic polymorphisms in these four genes may contribute to ovarian cancer susceptibility. A total of 22 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in these four genes were genotyped in 287 cases of ovarian serous cystadenocarcinomas and 618 age-matched cancer-free controls from the Chinese Han population, and then haplotype blocks were reconstructed according to our genotyping data and linkage disequilibrium (LD) status of these SNPs. RESULTS For AURKA, we found that haplotype GA [rs6064391 (T→G)+rs911162 (G→A)] was strongly associated with decreased ovarian cancer risk (adjusted OR=0.31, 95% CI=0.15-0.63, P=0.0012). For BRCA1, we found that haplotype CGTAG was associated with decreased ovarian cancer risk (adjusted OR=0.64, 95% CI=0.41-0.98, P=0.0417). Moreover, women harboring homozygous GA/CGTAG haplotypes showed the lowest risk (OR=0.12, 95% CI=0.02-0.94, P=0.0438). In CCNE1, the SNPs rs3218035 and rs3218042 were significantly associated with increased ovarian cancer risk (rs3218035: adjusted OR=5.20, 95% CI=1.85-14.52, P=0.0017; rs3218042: adjusted OR=4.98, 95% CI=1.75-14.19, P=0.0027). For CDK2, no significant association was found. CONCLUSIONS This study indicates that genetic polymorphisms of AURKA, BRCA1 and CCNE1 may affect ovarian cancer susceptibility in Chinese Han women.
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- Liyuan Zheng
- Department of Pathology, Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Translational Research (Ministry of Education), School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, PR China
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Faber MT, Kjær SK, Dehlendorff C, Chang-Claude J, Andersen KK, Høgdall E, Webb PM, Jordan SJ, Rossing MA, Doherty JA, Lurie G, Thompson PJ, Carney ME, Goodman MT, Ness RB, Modugnos F, Edwards RP, Bunker CH, Goode EL, Fridley BL, Vierkant RA, Larson MC, Schildkraut J, Cramer DW, Terry KL, Vitonis AF, Bandera EV, Olson SH, King M, Chandran U, Kiemeney LA, Massuger LFAG, van Altena AM, Vermeulen SH, Brinton L, Wentzensen N, Lissowska J, Yang HP, Moysich KB, Odunsi K, Kasza K, Odunsi-Akanji O, Song H, Pharaoh P, Shah M, Whittemore AS, McGuire V, Sieh W, Sutphen R, Menon U, Gayther SA, Ramus SJ, Gentry-Maharaj A, Pearce CL, Wu AH, Pike MC, Risch HA, Jensen A. Cigarette smoking and risk of ovarian cancer: a pooled analysis of 21 case-control studies. Cancer Causes Control 2013; 24:989-1004. [PMID: 23456270 PMCID: PMC3818570 DOI: 10.1007/s10552-013-0174-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2012] [Accepted: 02/11/2013] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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PURPOSE The majority of previous studies have observed an increased risk of mucinous ovarian tumors associated with cigarette smoking, but the association with other histological types is unclear. In a large pooled analysis, we examined the risk of epithelial ovarian cancer associated with multiple measures of cigarette smoking with a focus on characterizing risks according to tumor behavior and histology. METHODS We used data from 21 case-control studies of ovarian cancer (19,066 controls, 11,972 invasive and 2,752 borderline cases). Study-specific odds ratios (OR) and 95 % confidence intervals (CI) were obtained from logistic regression models and combined into a pooled odds ratio using a random effects model. RESULTS Current cigarette smoking increased the risk of invasive mucinous (OR = 1.31; 95 % CI: 1.03-1.65) and borderline mucinous ovarian tumors (OR = 1.83; 95 % CI: 1.39-2.41), while former smoking increased the risk of borderline serous ovarian tumors (OR = 1.30; 95 % CI: 1.12-1.50). For these histological types, consistent dose-response associations were observed. No convincing associations between smoking and risk of invasive serous and endometrioid ovarian cancer were observed, while our results provided some evidence of a decreased risk of invasive clear cell ovarian cancer. CONCLUSIONS Our results revealed marked differences in the risk profiles of histological types of ovarian cancer with regard to cigarette smoking, although the magnitude of the observed associations was modest. Our findings, which may reflect different etiologies of the histological types, add to the fact that ovarian cancer is a heterogeneous disease.
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- Mette T. Faber
- Unit of Virus, Lifestyle and Genes, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Unit of Virus, Lifestyle and Genes, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
- Gynecologic Clinic, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Unit of Statistics, Bioinformatics and Registry, Danish Cancer, Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research, Center, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Unit of Statistics, Bioinformatics and Registry, Danish Cancer, Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Unit of Virus, Lifestyle and Genes, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
- Molecular Unit, Department of Pathology, Herlev University, Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Australian Ovarian Cancer Study Group Population Health Department, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia
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- Australian Ovarian Cancer Study Group Population Health Department, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia
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- Program in Epidemiology, Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Program in Epidemiology, Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
- Department of Community and Family Medicine, Section of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH, USA
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- Epidemiology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, HI, USA
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- Epidemiology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, HI, USA
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- Epidemiology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, HI, USA
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- Epidemiology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, HI, USA
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- School of Public Health, University of Texas, Houston, TX, USA
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- Division of Gyn/Onc, Department of Ob/Gyn/RS, School of Medicine and Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, Ovarian Cancer Center of Excellence, Women’s Cancer Program, Magee-Women’s Research Institute, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Division of Gyn/Onc, Department of Ob/Gyn/RS, and Ovarian Cancer Center of Excellence, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Health Science, Research, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics, Department of Health Science Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics, Department of Health Science Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics, Department of Health Science Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke, University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
- Cancer Prevention, Detection & Control Research Program, Duke Cancer Institute, Durham, NC, USA
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- Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Brigham and, Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, The Cancer Institute of, New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
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- Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Brigham and, Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, The Cancer Institute of, New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- UMDNJ-School of Public Health, Piscataway, NJ, USA
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- Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, The Cancer Institute of, New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and HTA, Radboud, University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Department of Urology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical, Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Comprehensive Cancer Center, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Gynecology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Gynecology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and HTA, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention, M. Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Warsaw, Poland
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Cancer Prevention and Control, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY, USA
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- Department of Gynecological Oncology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY, USA
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- Department of Cancer Prevention and Control, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY, USA
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- Strangeways Research Laboratory, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Strangeways Research Laboratory, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Strangeways Research Laboratory, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Health Research and Policy, Epidemiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Health Research and Policy, Epidemiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Health Research and Policy, Epidemiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Epidemiology Center, College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Womens Cancer, EGA Institute for Women’s Health, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Public Health and School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Public Health and School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Unit of Virus, Lifestyle and Genes, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark,
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Olsen CM, Nagle CM, Whiteman DC, Ness R, Pearce CL, Pike MC, Rossing MA, Terry KL, Wu AH, Risch HA, Yu H, Doherty JA, Chang-Claude J, Hein R, Nickels S, Wang-Gohrke S, Goodman MT, Carney ME, Matsuno RK, Lurie G, Moysich K, Kjaer SK, Jensen A, Hogdall E, Goode EL, Fridley BL, Vierkant RA, Larson MC, Schildkraut J, Hoyo C, Moorman P, Weber RP, Cramer DW, Vitonis AF, Bandera EV, Olson SH, Rodriguez-Rodriguez L, King M, Brinton LA, Yang H, Garcia-Closas M, Lissowska J, Anton-Culver H, Ziogas A, Gayther SA, Ramus SJ, Menon U, Gentry-Maharaj A, Webb PM. Obesity and risk of ovarian cancer subtypes: evidence from the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium. Endocr Relat Cancer 2013; 20:251-62. [PMID: 23404857 PMCID: PMC3857135 DOI: 10.1530/erc-12-0395] [Citation(s) in RCA: 142] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Whilst previous studies have reported that higher BMI increases a woman's risk of developing ovarian cancer, associations for the different histological subtypes have not been well defined. As the prevalence of obesity has increased dramatically, and classification of ovarian histology has improved in the last decade, we sought to examine the association in a pooled analysis of recent studies participating in the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium. We evaluated the association between BMI (recent, maximum and in young adulthood) and ovarian cancer risk using original data from 15 case-control studies (13 548 cases and 17 913 controls). We combined study-specific adjusted odds ratios (ORs) using a random-effects model. We further examined the associations by histological subtype, menopausal status and post-menopausal hormone use. High BMI (all time-points) was associated with increased risk. This was most pronounced for borderline serous (recent BMI: pooled OR=1.24 per 5 kg/m(2); 95% CI 1.18-1.30), invasive endometrioid (1.17; 1.11-1.23) and invasive mucinous (1.19; 1.06-1.32) tumours. There was no association with serous invasive cancer overall (0.98; 0.94-1.02), but increased risks for low-grade serous invasive tumours (1.13, 1.03-1.25) and in pre-menopausal women (1.11; 1.04-1.18). Among post-menopausal women, the associations did not differ between hormone replacement therapy users and non-users. Whilst obesity appears to increase risk of the less common histological subtypes of ovarian cancer, it does not increase risk of high-grade invasive serous cancers, and reducing BMI is therefore unlikely to prevent the majority of ovarian cancer deaths. Other modifiable factors must be identified to control this disease.
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- Catherine M Olsen
- Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Royal Brisbane Hospital, Locked Bag 2000, Brisbane, Queensland 4029, Australia.
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The molecular fingerprint of high grade serous ovarian cancer reflects its fallopian tube origin. Int J Mol Sci 2013; 14:6571-96. [PMID: 23528888 PMCID: PMC3645655 DOI: 10.3390/ijms14046571] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2013] [Revised: 03/11/2013] [Accepted: 03/19/2013] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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High grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSC), the most lethal and frequent type of epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC), has poor long term prognosis due to a combination of factors: late detection, great metastatic potential and the capacity to develop resistance to available therapeutic drugs. Furthermore, there has been considerable controversy concerning the etiology of this malignancy. New studies, both clinical and molecular, strongly suggest that HGSC originates not from the surface of the ovary, but from the epithelial layer of the neighboring fallopian tube fimbriae. In this paper we summarize data supporting the central role of fallopian tube epithelium in the development of HGSC. Specifically, we address cellular pathways and regulatory mechanisms which are modulated in the process of transformation, but also genetic changes which accumulate during disease progression. Similarities between fallopian tube mucosa and the malignant tissue of HGSC warrant a closer analysis of homeostatic mechanisms in healthy epithelium in order to elucidate key steps in disease development. Finally, we highlight the importance of the cancer stem cell (CSC) identification and understanding of its niche regulation for improvement of therapeutic strategies.
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Fasching PA, Pharoah PDP, Cox A, Nevanlinna H, Bojesen SE, Karn T, Broeks A, van Leeuwen FE, van't Veer LJ, Udo R, Dunning AM, Greco D, Aittomäki K, Blomqvist C, Shah M, Nordestgaard BG, Flyger H, Hopper JL, Southey MC, Apicella C, Garcia-Closas M, Sherman M, Lissowska J, Seynaeve C, Huijts PEA, Tollenaar RAEM, Ziogas A, Ekici AB, Rauh C, Mannermaa A, Kataja V, Kosma VM, Hartikainen JM, Andrulis IL, Ozcelik H, Mulligan AM, Glendon G, Hall P, Czene K, Liu J, Chang-Claude J, Wang-Gohrke S, Eilber U, Nickels S, Dörk T, Schiekel M, Bremer M, Park-Simon TW, Giles GG, Severi G, Baglietto L, Hooning MJ, Martens JWM, Jager A, Kriege M, Lindblom A, Margolin S, Couch FJ, Stevens KN, Olson JE, Kosel M, Cross SS, Balasubramanian SP, Reed MWR, Miron A, John EM, Winqvist R, Pylkäs K, Jukkola-Vuorinen A, Kauppila S, Burwinkel B, Marme F, Schneeweiss A, Sohn C, Chenevix-Trench G, Lambrechts D, Dieudonne AS, Hatse S, van Limbergen E, Benitez J, Milne RL, Zamora MP, Pérez JIA, Bonanni B, Peissel B, Loris B, Peterlongo P, Rajaraman P, Schonfeld SJ, Anton-Culver H, Devilee P, Beckmann MW, Slamon DJ, Phillips KA, Figueroa JD, Humphreys MK, Easton DF, Schmidt MK. The role of genetic breast cancer susceptibility variants as prognostic factors. Hum Mol Genet 2012; 21:3926-39. [PMID: 22532573 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/dds159] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Recent genome-wide association studies identified 11 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with breast cancer (BC) risk. We investigated these and 62 other SNPs for their prognostic relevance. Confirmed BC risk SNPs rs17468277 (CASP8), rs1982073 (TGFB1), rs2981582 (FGFR2), rs13281615 (8q24), rs3817198 (LSP1), rs889312 (MAP3K1), rs3803662 (TOX3), rs13387042 (2q35), rs4973768 (SLC4A7), rs6504950 (COX11) and rs10941679 (5p12) were genotyped for 25 853 BC patients with the available follow-up; 62 other SNPs, which have been suggested as BC risk SNPs by a GWAS or as candidate SNPs from individual studies, were genotyped for replication purposes in subsets of these patients. Cox proportional hazard models were used to test the association of these SNPs with overall survival (OS) and BC-specific survival (BCS). For the confirmed loci, we performed an accessory analysis of publicly available gene expression data and the prognosis in a different patient group. One of the 11 SNPs, rs3803662 (TOX3) and none of the 62 candidate/GWAS SNPs were associated with OS and/or BCS at P<0.01. The genotypic-specific survival for rs3803662 suggested a recessive mode of action [hazard ratio (HR) of rare homozygous carriers=1.21; 95% CI: 1.09-1.35, P=0.0002 and HR=1.29; 95% CI: 1.12-1.47, P=0.0003 for OS and BCS, respectively]. This association was seen similarly in all analyzed tumor subgroups defined by nodal status, tumor size, grade and estrogen receptor. Breast tumor expression of these genes was not associated with prognosis. With the exception of rs3803662 (TOX3), there was no evidence that any of the SNPs associated with BC susceptibility were associated with the BC survival. Survival may be influenced by a distinct set of germline variants from those influencing susceptibility.
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- Peter A Fasching
- University Breast Center, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Erlangen, Comprehensive Cancer Center Erlangen Nuremberg, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany.
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Bolton KL, Ganda C, Berchuck A, Pharaoh PDP, Gayther SA. Role of common genetic variants in ovarian cancer susceptibility and outcome: progress to date from the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium (OCAC). J Intern Med 2012; 271:366-78. [PMID: 22443200 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2796.2011.02509.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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In this article, we review the current knowledge of the inherited genetics of epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) susceptibility and clinical outcome. We focus on recent developments in identifying low-penetrance susceptibility genes and the role of the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium (OCAC) in these discoveries. The OCAC was established to facilitate large-scale replication analyses for reported genetic associations for EOC. Since its inception, the OCAC has conducted both candidate gene and genome-wide association studies (GWAS); the latter has identified six established loci for EOC susceptibility, most of which showed stronger association with the serous histological subtype. Future GWAS and sequencing studies are likely to result in the discovery of additional susceptibility loci and may result in established associations with clinical outcome. Additional rare and uncommon ovarian cancer loci will likely be uncovered from high-throughput next-generation sequencing studies. Applying these novel findings to establish improved preventative and clinical intervention strategies will be one of the major challenges of future work.
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- K L Bolton
- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, MD, USA
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Braem M, Schouten L, Peeters P, den Brandt PV, Onland-Moret N. Genetic susceptibility to sporadic ovarian cancer: A systematic review. Biochim Biophys Acta Rev Cancer 2011; 1816:132-46. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbcan.2011.05.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2011] [Revised: 05/18/2011] [Accepted: 05/18/2011] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes account for the majority of hereditary breast and ovarian cancers. Approximately 10% of cases of ovarian cancer are due to germline mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2. Ovarian cancer associated with BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations has a distinct histological phenotype. This type of cancer is predominantly of serous or endometrioid histology and is high grade. Patients with BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations should be offered risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy by age 40 years, or when childbearing is complete. Nowadays there are no differences between the treatments provided for sporadic and hereditary ovarian cancer, although there are indications that targeted therapy is effective in women with BRCA1/BRCA2-associated tumors. Retrospective studies reveal a high level of sensitivity to platinum agents in BRCA-associated tumors and initial trials show good efficacy and tolerability for polyADP-ribose polymerase inhibitors in mutation carriers with advanced ovarian cancers. These agents might also potentially be used in chemoprevention. Authors review the current management of hereditary ovarian cancer. Orv. Hetil., 2011, 152, 1596–1608.
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- József Gábor Joó
- Semmelweis Egyetem, Általános Orvostudományi Kar I. Szülészeti és Nőgyógyászati Klinika Budapest Baross u. 27. 1088
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Functional polymorphisms in the TERT promoter are associated with risk of serous epithelial ovarian and breast cancers. PLoS One 2011; 6:e24987. [PMID: 21949822 PMCID: PMC3174246 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0024987] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2011] [Accepted: 08/21/2011] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Genetic variation at the TERT-CLPTM1L locus at 5p15.33 is associated with susceptibility to several cancers, including epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC). We have carried out fine-mapping of this region in EOC which implicates an association with a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) within the TERT promoter. We demonstrate that the minor alleles at rs2736109, and at an additional TERT promoter SNP, rs2736108, are associated with decreased breast cancer risk, and that the combination of both SNPs substantially reduces TERT promoter activity.
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Pearce CL, Doherty JA, Van Den Berg DJ, Moysich K, Hsu C, Cushing-Haugen KL, Conti DV, Ramus SJ, Gentry-Maharaj A, Menon U, Gayther SA, Pharoah PDP, Song H, Kjaer SK, Hogdall E, Hogdall C, Whittemore AS, McGuire V, Sieh W, Gronwald J, Medrek K, Jakubowska A, Lubinski J, Chenevix-Trench G, Beesley J, Webb PM, Berchuck A, Schildkraut JM, Iversen ES, Moorman PG, Edlund CK, Stram DO, Pike MC, Ness RB, Rossing MA, Wu AH. Genetic variation in insulin-like growth factor 2 may play a role in ovarian cancer risk. Hum Mol Genet 2011; 20:2263-72. [PMID: 21422097 PMCID: PMC3090188 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddr087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2010] [Revised: 02/17/2011] [Accepted: 02/23/2011] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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The insulin-like growth factor (IGF) signaling axis plays an important role in cancer biology. We hypothesized that genetic variation in this pathway may influence risk of ovarian cancer. A three-center study of non-Hispanic whites including 1880 control women, 1135 women with invasive epithelial ovarian cancer and 321 women with borderline epithelial ovarian tumors was carried out to test the association between tag single-nucleotide polymorphisms (tSNPs) (n=58) in this pathway and risk of ovarian cancer. We found no association between variation in IGF1, IGFBP1 or IGFBP3 and risk of invasive disease, whereas five tSNPs in IGF2 were associated with risk of invasive epithelial ovarian cancer at P<0.05 and followed-up one of the associated SNPs. We conducted genotyping in 3216 additional non-Hispanic white cases and 5382 additional controls and were able to independently replicate our initial findings. In the combined set of studies, rs4320932 was associated with a 13% decreased risk of ovarian cancer per copy of the minor allele carried (95% confidence interval 0.81-0.93, P-trend=7.4 × 10(-5)). No heterogeneity of effect across study centers was observed (p(het)=0.25). IGF2 is emerging as an important gene for ovarian cancer; additional genotyping is warranted to further confirm these associations with IGF2 and to narrow down the region harboring the causal SNP.
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- Celeste Leigh Pearce
- Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA.
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Notaridou M, Quaye L, Dafou D, Jones C, Song H, Høgdall E, Kjaer SK, Christensen L, Høgdall C, Blaakaer J, McGuire V, Wu AH, Van Den Berg DJ, Pike MC, Gentry-Maharaj A, Wozniak E, Sher T, Jacobs IJ, Tyrer J, Schildkraut JM, Moorman PG, Iversen ES, Jakubowska A, Mędrek K, Lubiński J, Ness RB, Moysich KB, Lurie G, Wilkens LR, Carney ME, Wang-Gohrke S, Doherty JA, Rossing MA, Beckmann MW, Thiel FC, Ekici AB, Chen X, Beesley J, Gronwald J, Fasching PA, Chang-Claude J, Goodman MT, Chenevix-Trench G, Berchuck A, Pearce CL, Whittemore AS, Menon U, Pharoah PD, Gayther SA, Ramus SJ. Common alleles in candidate susceptibility genes associated with risk and development of epithelial ovarian cancer. Int J Cancer 2011; 128:2063-74. [PMID: 20635389 PMCID: PMC3098608 DOI: 10.1002/ijc.25554] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2010] [Revised: 05/26/2010] [Accepted: 06/24/2010] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Common germline genetic variation in the population is associated with susceptibility to epithelial ovarian cancer. Microcell-mediated chromosome transfer and expression microarray analysis identified nine genes associated with functional suppression of tumorogenicity in ovarian cancer cell lines; AIFM2, AKTIP, AXIN2, CASP5, FILIP1L, RBBP8, RGC32, RUVBL1 and STAG3. Sixty-three tagging single nucleotide polymorphisms (tSNPs) in these genes were genotyped in 1,799 invasive ovarian cancer cases and 3,045 controls to look for associations with disease risk. Two SNPs in RUVBL1, rs13063604 and rs7650365, were associated with increased risk of serous ovarian cancer [HetOR = 1.42 (1.15-1.74) and the HomOR = 1.63 (1.10-1.42), p-trend = 0.0002] and [HetOR = 0.97 (0.80-1.17), HomOR = 0.74 (0.58-0.93), p-trend = 0.009], respectively. We genotyped rs13063604 and rs7650365 in an additional 4,590 cases and 6,031 controls from ten sites from the United States, Europe and Australia; however, neither SNP was significant in Stage 2. We also evaluated the potential role of tSNPs in these nine genes in ovarian cancer development by testing for allele-specific loss of heterozygosity (LOH) in 286 primary ovarian tumours. We found frequent LOH for tSNPs in AXIN2, AKTIP and RGC32 (64, 46 and 34%, respectively) and one SNP, rs1637001, in STAG3 showed significant allele-specific LOH with loss of the common allele in 94% of informative tumours (p = 0.015). Array comparative genomic hybridisation indicated that this nonrandom allelic imbalance was due to amplification of the rare allele. In conclusion, we show evidence for the involvement of a common allele of STAG3 in the development of epithelial ovarian cancer.
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- Maria Notaridou
- Gynaecological Oncology Unit, UCL EGA Institute for Women’s Health, University College London, United Kingdom
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- Gynaecological Oncology Unit, UCL EGA Institute for Women’s Health, University College London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, King’s College London School of Medicine, Guy’s Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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- Gynaecological Oncology Unit, UCL EGA Institute for Women’s Health, University College London, United Kingdom
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- CR-UK Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Viruses, Hormones and Cancer, Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Viruses, Hormones and Cancer, Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Pathology, Bispebjerg Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- The Gynaecologic Clinic, The Juliane Marie Centre, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
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- University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, Department of Preventive Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
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- University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, Department of Preventive Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
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- University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, Department of Preventive Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
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- Gynaecological Oncology Unit, UCL EGA Institute for Women’s Health, University College London, United Kingdom
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- Gynaecological Oncology Unit, UCL EGA Institute for Women’s Health, University College London, United Kingdom
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- Gynaecological Oncology Unit, UCL EGA Institute for Women’s Health, University College London, United Kingdom
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- Gynaecological Oncology Unit, UCL EGA Institute for Women’s Health, University College London, United Kingdom
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- CR-UK Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
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- Department of Statistical Science, Duke University, Medical Center, Durham, NC
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- Department of Genetics and Pathology, International Hereditary Cancer Center, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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- Department of Genetics and Pathology, International Hereditary Cancer Center, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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- Department of Genetics and Pathology, International Hereditary Cancer Center, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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- Department of Cancer Prevention and Control, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY
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- Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI
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- Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI
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- Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany
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- Program in Epidemiology, Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
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- Program in Epidemiology, Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
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- Genetics and Population Health, The Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Post Office Royal Brisbane Hospital, Australia
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- Genetics and Population Health, The Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Post Office Royal Brisbane Hospital, Australia
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- Department of Genetics and Pathology, International Hereditary Cancer Center, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
- Division of Hematology and Oncology, University of California at Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI
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- Genetics and Population Health, The Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Post Office Royal Brisbane Hospital, Australia
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology/Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, 27710
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- University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, Department of Preventive Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
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- Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
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- Gynaecological Oncology Unit, UCL EGA Institute for Women’s Health, University College London, United Kingdom
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- CR-UK Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Gynaecological Oncology Unit, UCL EGA Institute for Women’s Health, University College London, United Kingdom
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- Gynaecological Oncology Unit, UCL EGA Institute for Women’s Health, University College London, United Kingdom
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Amankwah EK, Kelemen LE, Wang Q, Song H, Chenevix-Trench G, Beesley J, Webb PM, Pearce CL, Wu AH, Pike MC, Stram DO, Chang-Claude J, Wang-Gohrke S, Ness RB, Goode EL, Cunningham JM, Fridley BL, Vierkant RA, Tworoger SS, Whittemore AS, McGuire V, Sieh W, Gayther SA, Gentry-Maharaj A, Menon U, Ramus SJ, Rossing MA, Doherty JA, Goodman MT, Carney ME, Lurie G, Wilkens LR, Kjær SK, Høgdall E, Cramer DW, Terry KL, Garcia-Closas M, Yang H, Lissowska J, Anton-Culver H, Ziogas A, Schildkraut JM, Berchuck A, Pharoah PDP. Prostate cancer susceptibility polymorphism rs2660753 is not associated with invasive ovarian cancer. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2011; 20:1028-31. [PMID: 21415361 DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.epi-11-0053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND We previously reported an association between rs2660753, a prostate cancer susceptibility polymorphism, and invasive epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC; OR = 1.2, 95% CI=1.0-1.4, P(trend) = 0.01) that showed a stronger association with the serous histological subtype (OR = 1.3, 95% CI = 1.1-1.5, P(trend) = 0.003). METHODS We sought to replicate this association in 12 other studies comprising 4,482 cases and 6,894 controls of white non-Hispanic ancestry in the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium. RESULTS No evidence for an association with all cancers or serous cancers was observed in a combined analysis of data from the replication studies (all: OR = 1.0, 95% CI = 0.9-1.1, P(trend) = 0.61; serous: OR = 1.0, 95% CI = 0.9-1.1, P(trend) = 0.85) or from the combined analysis of discovery and replication studies (all: OR = 1.0, 95% CI = 1.0-1.1, P(trend) = 0.28; serous: OR = 1.1, 95% CI = 1.0-1.2, P(trend) = 0.11). There was no evidence for statistical heterogeneity in ORs across the studies. CONCLUSIONS Although rs2660753 is a strong prostate cancer susceptibility polymorphism, the association with another hormonally related cancer, invasive EOC, is not supported by this replication study. IMPACT Our findings, based on a larger sample size, emphasize the importance of replicating potentially promising genetic risk associations.
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- Ernest K Amankwah
- Department of Population Health Research, Alberta Health Services-Cancer Care, Calgary, Canada
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Recent candidate gene and genome wide association studies have revealed novel loci associated with an increased risk of breast cancer. We evaluated the effect of these breast cancer associated variants on ovarian cancer risk in individuals with familial ovarian cancer both with and without BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations. A total of 158 unrelated white British women (54 BRCA1/2 mutation positive and 104 BRCA1/2 mutation negative) with familial ovarian cancer were genotyped for FGFR2, TNRC9/TOX3 and CASP8 variants. The p.Asp302His CASP8 variant was associated with reduced ovarian cancer risk in the familial BRCA1/2 mutation negative ovarian cancer cases (P = 0.016). The synonymous TNRC9/TOX3 (Ser51) variant was present at a significantly lower frequency than in patients with familial BRCA1/2 positive breast cancer (P = 0.0002). Our results indicate that variants in CASP8 and TNRC9/TOX3 alter the risk of disease in individuals affected with familial ovarian cancer.
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White KL, Rider DN, Kalli KR, Knutson KL, Jarvik GP, Goode EL. Genomics of the NF-κB signaling pathway: hypothesized role in ovarian cancer. Cancer Causes Control 2011; 22:785-801. [PMID: 21359843 DOI: 10.1007/s10552-011-9745-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2010] [Accepted: 02/09/2011] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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OBJECTIVE We sought to review evidence linking nuclear factor-kappa B (NF-κB) to ovarian cancer and to identify genetic variants involved in NF-κB signaling. METHODS PubMed was reviewed to inform on ovarian cancer biology and NF-κB signaling and to identify key genes. Public linkage disequilibrium (LD) data were analyzed to identify informative inherited variants (tagSNPs) using ldSelect. RESULTS We identified 319 key NF-κB genes including five NF-κB subunits, 167 activating genes, and 55 inhibiting genes. We found that the 1000 Genomes Project was the most informative LD source for most genes (92.8%), and we identified 13,027 LD bins (r (2) ≥ 0.9, minor allele frequency ≥ 0.05) and 1,018 putative-functional variants worthy of investigation. We also report that reliance on a commonly used genome-wide SNP array and genotype imputation with HapMap Phase II data provides data on only 74% of the common inherited NF-κB SNPs of interest. CONCLUSIONS Compelling evidence suggests that NF-κB plays a critical role in ovarian cancer, yet inherited variation in these genes has not been thoroughly assessed in relation to disease risk or outcome. We present a collection of variants in key genes and suggest creation of a custom genotyping array as an optimal approach.
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- Kristin L White
- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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Lurie G, Wilkens LR, Thompson PJ, Carney ME, Palmieri RT, Pharoah PDP, Song H, Hogdall E, Kjaer SK, DiCioccio RA, McGuire V, Whittemore AS, Gayther SA, Gentry-Maharaj A, Menon U, Ramus SJ, Goodman MT. Vitamin D receptor rs2228570 polymorphism and invasive ovarian carcinoma risk: pooled analysis in five studies within the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium. Int J Cancer 2011; 128:936-43. [PMID: 20473893 DOI: 10.1002/ijc.25403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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The association of invasive ovarian carcinoma risk with the functional polymorphism rs2228570 (aka rs10735810; FokI polymorphism) in the vitamin D receptor (VDR) gene was examined in 1820 white non-Hispanic cases and 3479 controls in a pooled analysis of five population-based case-control studies within the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium. Odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were estimated using unconditional logistic regression. Carriers of the rare T allele were at increased risk of ovarian carcinoma compared to women with the CC genotype in all studies combined; each copy of the T allele was associated with a modest 9% increased risk (OR = 1.09; 95% CI: 1.01-1.19; p = 0.04). No significant heterogeneity among studies was observed (p = 0.37) and, after excluding the dataset from the Hawaii study, the risk association for rs2228570 among replication studies was unchanged (OR = 1.09; 95% CI: 1.00-1.19; p = 0.06). A stronger association of rs2228570 with risk was observed among younger women (aged < 50 years versus 50 years or older) (p = 0.04). In all studies combined, the increased risk per copy of the T allele among younger women was 24% (OR = 1.24; 95% CI: 1.04-1.47; p = 0.02). This association remained statistically significant after excluding the Hawaii data (OR = 1.20; 95% CI: 1.01-1.43; p = 0.04). No heterogeneity of the association was observed by stage (p = 0.46), tumor histology (p = 0.98), or time between diagnosis and interview (p = 0.94). This pooled analysis provides further evidence that the VDR rs2228570 polymorphism might influence ovarian cancer susceptibility.
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- Galina Lurie
- Cancer Epidemiology Program, Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, USA.
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Engel C, Versmold B, Wappenschmidt B, Simard J, Easton DF, Peock S, Cook M, Oliver C, Frost D, Mayes R, Evans DG, Eeles R, Paterson J, Brewer C, McGuffog L, Antoniou AC, Stoppa-Lyonnet D, Sinilnikova OM, Barjhoux L, Frenay M, Michel C, Leroux D, Dreyfus H, Toulas C, Gladieff L, Uhrhammer N, Bignon YJ, Meindl A, Arnold N, Varon-Mateeva R, Niederacher D, Preisler-Adams S, Kast K, Deissler H, Sutter C, Gadzicki D, Chenevix-Trench G, Spurdle AB, Chen X, Beesley J, Olsson H, Kristoffersson U, Ehrencrona H, Liljegren A, van der Luijt RB, van Os TA, van Leeuwen FE, Domchek SM, Rebbeck TR, Nathanson KL, Osorio A, Ramón y Cajal T, Konstantopoulou I, Benítez J, Friedman E, Kaufman B, Laitman Y, Mai PL, Greene MH, Nevanlinna H, Aittomäki K, Szabo CI, Caldes T, Couch FJ, Andrulis IL, Godwin AK, Hamann U, Schmutzler RK. Association of the variants CASP8 D302H and CASP10 V410I with breast and ovarian cancer risk in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2010; 19:2859-68. [PMID: 20978178 DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.epi-10-0517] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND The genes caspase-8 (CASP8) and caspase-10 (CASP10) functionally cooperate and play a key role in the initiation of apoptosis. Suppression of apoptosis is one of the major mechanisms underlying the origin and progression of cancer. Previous case-control studies have indicated that the polymorphisms CASP8 D302H and CASP10 V410I are associated with a reduced risk of breast cancer in the general population. METHODS To evaluate whether the CASP8 D302H (CASP10 V410I) polymorphisms modify breast or ovarian cancer risk in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers, we analyzed 7,353 (7,227) subjects of white European origin provided by 19 (18) study groups that participate in the Consortium of Investigators of Modifiers of BRCA1/2 (CIMBA). A weighted cohort approach was used to estimate hazard ratios (HR) and 95% confidence intervals (95% CI). RESULTS The minor allele of CASP8 D302H was significantly associated with a reduced risk of breast cancer (per-allele HR, 0.85; 95% CI, 0.76-0.97; P(trend) = 0.011) and ovarian cancer (per-allele HR, 0.69; 95% CI, 0.53-0.89; P(trend) = 0.004) for BRCA1 but not for BRCA2 mutation carriers. The CASP10 V410I polymorphism was not associated with breast or ovarian cancer risk for BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation carriers. CONCLUSIONS CASP8 D302H decreases breast and ovarian cancer risk for BRCA1 mutation carriers but not for BRCA2 mutation carriers. IMPACT The combined application of these and other recently identified genetic risk modifiers could in the future allow better individual risk calculation and could aid in the individualized counseling and decision making with respect to preventive options in BRCA1 mutation carriers.
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- Christoph Engel
- Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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Terry KL, Vitonis AF, Hernandez D, Lurie G, Song H, Ramus SJ, Titus-Ernstoff L, Carney ME, Wilkens LR, Gentry-Maharaj A, Menon U, Gayther SA, Pharaoh PD, Goodman MT, Cramer DW, Birrer MJ. A polymorphism in the GALNT2 gene and ovarian cancer risk in four population based case-control studies. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND GENETICS 2010; 1:272-7. [PMID: 21532840 PMCID: PMC3076782] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2010] [Accepted: 07/18/2010] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Recent epidemiologic evidence supports a role for MUC1 in ovarian carcinogenesis; therefore, we hypothesized that common genetic variation in the genes responsible for glycosylation of MUC1 may influence ovarian cancer risk. In a genome-wide association study of ovarian cancer, we observed an association between a non-synonymous SNP (rs2271077) in the UDP-N-acetyl-alpha-d-galactosamine: polypeptide N-acetylgalactosainyltransferase 2 (GALNT2) gene and ovarian cancer risk (p=0.005). We sought to validate the association in four population based ovarian cancer case-control studies collaborating through the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium. Although rs2271077 was associated with a significantly increased risk (Odds Ratio (OR) = 1.37, 95% Confidence Interval (CI) = 1.06-1.77) in one study with 961 cases and 922 controls, we observed no association in the remaining three studies including 1452 cases and 1954 controls (OR=0.83, 95% CI= 0.66-1.04). Therefore, there appears to be no strong evidence of association between GALNT2 SNP rs2271077 and ovarian cancer risk.
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Johnatty SE, Beesley J, Chen X, Macgregor S, Duffy DL, Spurdle AB, deFazio A, Gava N, Webb PM, Rossing MA, Doherty JA, Goodman MT, Lurie G, Thompson PJ, Wilkens LR, Ness RB, Moysich KB, Chang-Claude J, Wang-Gohrke S, Cramer DW, Terry KL, Hankinson SE, Tworoger SS, Garcia-Closas M, Yang H, Lissowska J, Chanock SJ, Pharoah PD, Song H, Whitemore AS, Pearce CL, Stram DO, Wu AH, Pike MC, Gayther SA, Ramus SJ, Menon U, Gentry-Maharaj A, Anton-Culver H, Ziogas A, Hogdall E, Kjaer SK, Hogdall C, Berchuck A, Schildkraut JM, Iversen ES, Moorman PG, Phelan CM, Sellers TA, Cunningham JM, Vierkant RA, Rider DN, Goode EL, Haviv I, Chenevix-Trench G. Evaluation of candidate stromal epithelial cross-talk genes identifies association between risk of serous ovarian cancer and TERT, a cancer susceptibility "hot-spot". PLoS Genet 2010; 6:e1001016. [PMID: 20628624 PMCID: PMC2900295 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1001016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2009] [Accepted: 06/03/2010] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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We hypothesized that variants in genes expressed as a consequence of interactions between ovarian cancer cells and the host micro-environment could contribute to cancer susceptibility. We therefore used a two-stage approach to evaluate common single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in 173 genes involved in stromal epithelial interactions in the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium (OCAC). In the discovery stage, cases with epithelial ovarian cancer (n=675) and controls (n=1,162) were genotyped at 1,536 SNPs using an Illumina GoldenGate assay. Based on Positive Predictive Value estimates, three SNPs-PODXL rs1013368, ITGA6 rs13027811, and MMP3 rs522616-were selected for replication using TaqMan genotyping in up to 3,059 serous invasive cases and 8,905 controls from 16 OCAC case-control studies. An additional 18 SNPs with Pper-allele<0.05 in the discovery stage were selected for replication in a subset of five OCAC studies (n=1,233 serous invasive cases; n=3,364 controls). The discovery stage associations in PODXL, ITGA6, and MMP3 were attenuated in the larger replication set (adj. Pper-allele>or=0.5). However genotypes at TERT rs7726159 were associated with ovarian cancer risk in the smaller, five-study replication study (Pper-allele=0.03). Combined analysis of the discovery and replication sets for this TERT SNP showed an increased risk of serous ovarian cancer among non-Hispanic whites [adj. ORper-allele 1.14 (1.04-1.24) p=0.003]. Our study adds to the growing evidence that, like the 8q24 locus, the telomerase reverse transcriptase locus at 5p15.33, is a general cancer susceptibility locus.
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Kelemen LE, Goodman MT, McGuire V, Rossing MA, Webb PM, Köbel M, Anton-Culver H, Beesley J, Berchuck A, Brar S, Carney ME, Chang-Claude J, Chenevix-Trench G, Cramer DW, Cunningham JM, Dicioccio RA, Doherty JA, Easton DF, Fredericksen ZS, Fridley BL, Gates MA, Gayther SA, Gentry-Maharaj A, Høgdall E, Kjaer SK, Lurie G, Menon U, Moorman PG, Moysich K, Ness RB, Palmieri RT, Pearce CL, Pharoah PDP, Ramus SJ, Song H, Stram DO, Tworoger SS, Van Den Berg D, Vierkant RA, Wang-Gohrke S, Whittemore AS, Wilkens LR, Wu AH, Schildkraut JM, Sellers TA, Goode EL. Genetic variation in TYMS in the one-carbon transfer pathway is associated with ovarian carcinoma types in the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2010; 19:1822-30. [PMID: 20570913 DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.epi-09-1317] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND We previously reported the risks of ovarian carcinoma for common polymorphisms in one-carbon transfer genes. We sought to replicate associations for DPYD rs1801265, DNMT3A rs13420827, MTHFD1 rs1950902, MTHFS rs17284990, and TYMS rs495139 with risk of ovarian carcinoma overall and to use the large sample of assembled cases to investigate associations by histologic type. METHODS Associations were evaluated in the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium, including 16 studies of 5,593 epithelial ovarian carcinoma cases and 9,962 controls of white non-Hispanic origin. Odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) were adjusted for age and study site. RESULTS The five polymorphisms were not associated with ovarian carcinoma overall (P(trend) > 0.13); however, associations for the minor allele at TYMS rs495139 were observed for carcinomas of mucinous type (OR, 1.19; 95% CI, 1.03-1.39; P = 0.02), clear cell type (OR, 0.86; 95% CI, 0.75-0.99; P = 0.04), and endometrioid type (OR, 0.90; 95% CI, 0.81-0.99; P = 0.04; P(heterogeneity) = 0.001). Restriction to low-grade mucinous carcinomas further strengthened the association for the mucinous type (OR, 1.32; 95% CI, 1.07-1.62; P = 0.01). TYMS rs495139 was not associated with serous type (OR, 1.06; 95% CI, 1.00-1.13; P = 0.05). CONCLUSIONS TYMS rs495139 may be associated with a differential risk of ovarian carcinoma types, indicating the importance of accurate histopathologic classification. IMPACT Biomarkers that distinguish ovarian carcinoma types are few, and TYMS rs495139 may provide a novel clue to type etiology.
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- Linda E Kelemen
- Department of Population Health Research, Alberta Health Services-Cancer Care, 1331 29th Street Northwest, Calgary, Alberta T2N4N2, Canada.
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Le Page C, Huntsman DG, Provencher DM, Mes-Masson AM. Predictive and prognostic protein biomarkers in epithelial ovarian cancer: recommendation for future studies. Cancers (Basel) 2010; 2:913-54. [PMID: 24281100 PMCID: PMC3835111 DOI: 10.3390/cancers2020913] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2010] [Revised: 04/19/2010] [Accepted: 05/13/2010] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Epithelial ovarian cancer is the most lethal gynecological malignancy. Due to its lack of symptoms, this disease is diagnosed at an advanced stage when the cancer has already spread to secondary sites. While initial rates of response to first treatment is >80%, the overall survival rate of patients is extremely low, mainly due to development of drug resistance. To date, there are no reliable clinical factors that can properly stratify patients for suitable chemotherapy strategies. Clinical parameters such as disease stage, tumor grade and residual disease, although helpful in the management of patients after their initial surgery to establish the first line of treatment, are not efficient enough. Accordingly, reliable markers that are independent and complementary to clinical parameters are needed for a better management of these patients. For several years, efforts to identify prognostic factors have focused on molecular markers, with a large number having been investigated. This review aims to present a summary of the recent advances in the identification of molecular biomarkers in ovarian cancer patient tissues, as well as an overview of the need and importance of molecular markers for personalized medicine in ovarian cancer.
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- Cécile Le Page
- Centre de recherche du Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CR/CHUM), Institut du cancer de Montréal, 1560 Sherbrooke Est, Montreal, H2L4M1, QC, Canada; E-Mails: (C.L.P.); (D.M.P.)
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- Department of Pathology and Genetic Pathology Evaluation Centre of the Prostate Research Center, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, Canada; E-Mail: (D.G.H.)
- Translational and Applied Genomics, BC Cancer Agency, Room 3427, 600 West 10th Avenue, Vancouver, V5Z 4E6, BC, Canada
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- Centre de recherche du Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CR/CHUM), Institut du cancer de Montréal, 1560 Sherbrooke Est, Montreal, H2L4M1, QC, Canada; E-Mails: (C.L.P.); (D.M.P.)
- Département d’Obstétrique et Gynécologie, Clinique de Gynécologie Oncologie, Université de Montréal, 1560 Sherbrooke Est, Montreal, H2L4M1, QC, Canada; E-Mail:
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- Centre de recherche du Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CR/CHUM), Institut du cancer de Montréal, 1560 Sherbrooke Est, Montreal, H2L4M1, QC, Canada; E-Mails: (C.L.P.); (D.M.P.)
- Département de Medicine, Université de Montréal, 1560 Sherbrooke Est, Montreal, H2L4M1, QC, Canada
- Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: ; Tel.: +1-514-890-8000 ext 25496; Fax: +1-514-412-7703
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Doherty JA, Rossing MA, Cushing-Haugen KL, Chen C, Van Den Berg DJ, Wu AH, Pike MC, Ness RB, Moysich K, Chenevix-Trench G, Beesley J, Webb PM, Chang-Claude J, Wang-Gohrke S, Goodman MT, Lurie G, Thompson PJ, Carney ME, Hogdall E, Kjaer SK, Hogdall C, Goode EL, Cunningham JM, Fridley BL, Vierkant RA, Berchuck A, Moorman PG, Schildkraut JM, Palmieri RT, Cramer DW, Terry KL, Yang HP, Garcia-Closas M, Chanock S, Lissowska J, Song H, Pharoah PDP, Shah M, Perkins B, McGuire V, Whittemore AS, Di Cioccio RA, Gentry-Maharaj A, Menon U, Gayther SA, Ramus SJ, Ziogas A, Brewster W, Anton-Culver H, Pearce CL. ESR1/SYNE1 polymorphism and invasive epithelial ovarian cancer risk: an Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium study. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2010; 19:245-50. [PMID: 20056644 DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.epi-09-0729] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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We genotyped 13 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the estrogen receptor alpha gene (ESR1) region in three population-based case-control studies of epithelial ovarian cancer conducted in the United States, comprising a total of 1,128 and 1,866 non-Hispanic white invasive cases and controls, respectively. A SNP 19 kb downstream of ESR1 (rs2295190, G-to-T change) was associated with invasive ovarian cancer risk, with a per-T-allele odds ratio (OR) of 1.24 [95% confidence interval (CI), 1.06-1.44, P = 0.006]. rs2295190 is a nonsynonymous coding SNP in a neighboring gene called spectrin repeat containing, nuclear envelope 1 (SYNE1), which is involved in nuclear organization and structural integrity, function of the Golgi apparatus, and cytokinesis. An isoform encoded by SYNE1 has been reported to be downregulated in ovarian and other cancers. rs2295190 was genotyped in an additional 12 studies through the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium, with 5,279 invasive epithelial cases and 7,450 controls. The per-T-allele OR for this 12-study set was 1.09 (95% CI, 1.02-1.17; P = 0.017). Results for the serous subtype in the 15 combined studies were similar to those overall (n = 3,545; OR, 1.09; 95% CI, 1.01-1.18; P = 0.025), and our findings were strongest for the mucinous subtype (n = 447; OR, 1.32; 95% CI, 1.11-1.58; P = 0.002). No association was observed for the endometrioid subtype. In an additional analysis of 1,459 borderline ovarian cancer cases and 7,370 controls, rs2295190 was not associated with risk. These data provide suggestive evidence that the rs2295190 T allele, or another allele in linkage disequilibrium with it, may be associated with increased risk of invasive ovarian cancer.
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- Jennifer A Doherty
- Program in Epidemiology (M4-C308), Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, PO Box 19024, Seattle, WA 98109-1024, USA.
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Paige AJ, Zucknick M, Janczar S, Paul J, Mein CA, Taylor KJ, Stewart M, Gourley C, Richardson S, Perren T, Ganesan TS, Smyth JF, Brown R, Gabra H. WWOX tumour suppressor gene polymorphisms and ovarian cancer pathology and prognosis. Eur J Cancer 2010; 46:818-25. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ejca.2009.12.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2009] [Accepted: 12/14/2009] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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