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Qu S, Timmermans AM, Heemskerk-Gerritsen BAM, Trapman-Jansen AMAC, Broeren-Foekens R, Prager-van der Smissen WJC, El Hassnaoui H, van Tienhoven T, Bes-Stobbe CK, Westenend PJ, van Deurzen CHM, Martens JWM, Hooning MJ, Hollestelle A. Expression and Localization of Ferritin-Heavy Chain Predicts Recurrence for Breast Cancer Patients with a BRCA1/2 Mutation. Cancers (Basel) 2023; 16:28. [PMID: 38201455 PMCID: PMC10778040 DOI: 10.3390/cancers16010028] [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: 11/29/2023] [Revised: 12/08/2023] [Accepted: 12/15/2023] [Indexed: 01/12/2024] Open
Abstract
The ferritin-heavy chain (FTH1) is the catalytic subunit of the ferroxidase ferritin, which prevents oxidative DNA damage via intracellular iron storage. FTH1 was shown to be a prognostic marker for triple-negative breast cancer (BC) patients and associated with an enrichment of CD8+ effector T cells. However, whether the expression and localization of FTH1 are also associated with clinical outcome in other BC subtypes is unknown. Here, we investigated the association of FTH1 with time to survival in BCs from 222 BRCA1/2 mutation carriers by immunohistochemistry on tissue microarrays. In addition, for 51 of these patients, the association between FTH1 and specific subsets of T cells was evaluated on whole slides using automatic scoring algorithms. We revealed that nuclear FTH1 (nFTH1) expression, in multivariable analyses, was associated with a shorter disease-free (HR = 2.71, 95% CI = 1.49-4.92, p = 0.001) and metastasis-free survival (HR = 3.54, 95% CI = 1.45-8.66, p = 0.006) in patients carrying a BRCA1/2 mutation. However, we found no relation between cytoplasmic FTH1 expression and survival of BRCA1/2 mutation carriers. Moreover, we did not detect an association between FTH1 expression and the amount of CD45+ (p = 0.13), CD8+ (p = 0.18), CD4+ (p = 0.20) or FOXP3+ cells (p = 0.17). Consequently, the mechanism underlying the worse recurrence-free survival of nFTH1 expression in BRCA1/2 mutation carriers needs further investigation.
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- Shuoying Qu
- Department of Medical Oncology, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Erasmus University Medical Center, 3015 GD Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Erasmus University Medical Center, 3015 GD Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Erasmus University Medical Center, 3015 GD Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Erasmus University Medical Center, 3015 GD Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Erasmus University Medical Center, 3015 GD Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Erasmus University Medical Center, 3015 GD Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Erasmus University Medical Center, 3015 GD Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Erasmus University Medical Center, 3015 GD Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Erasmus University Medical Center, 3015 GD Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Pedroni C, Djuric O, Mancuso P, Navazio A, Pinotti M, Greci M, Giorgi Rossi P. Determinants of survival in patients with chronic heart failure: a population-based study in Reggio Emilia, Italy. ESC Heart Fail 2023; 10:3646-3655. [PMID: 37798817 PMCID: PMC10682897 DOI: 10.1002/ehf2.14557] [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: 02/06/2023] [Revised: 08/02/2023] [Accepted: 09/20/2023] [Indexed: 10/07/2023] Open
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AIMS We aim to monitor and improve the quality of the heart failure (HF) integrated assistance model defined by national and regional guidelines and implemented in the province of Reggio Emilia, Italy. Specific aims of the audit were to estimate the prevalence of HF, describe the characteristics of patients with HF and the rate of patients enrolled in the integrated care treated in primary care, and identify socioeconomic and geographic determinants of the 4-year survival of these patients. METHODS AND RESULTS Retrospective analysis of a cohort of prevalent cases of HF, diagnosed before 31 December 2015 in Reggio Emilia, Italy, alive on 1 January 2016, and residing at the time of diagnosis on the provincial territory. Age and sex-adjusted prevalence of HF by area of residence were calculated according to the standard European population 2013. Patients were followed until death or 31 December 2019, whatever came first. The outcome measure of the study was four-year case fatality. Cox proportional hazards models, adjusted for age, sex, and duration of disease were used to determine the association between socio-geographic factors and death. The 4-year case-fatality rate was 36.7%, and it was the highest in the mountains (50.8%) compared with hills (34.6%), lowland (35.4%) and city (37.7%). The prevalence of HF was the lowest in the mountain [149.9, 95% confidence interval (CI) 112.1-187.7] and the highest in the lowland (340.8, 95% CI 308.7-372.9) and city (308, 95% CI 276.0-321.2). Patients living in the mountains had a lower deprivation index, and fewer hospitalizations prior to official diagnosis, although these characteristics were not statistically significant determinants of HF death in multivariate analysis. Behavioural (smoking and obesity) and socio-geographic characteristics (educational level, deprivation index and area of residence) were not significantly associated with mortality in both univariable and multivariable analysis; however, patients who live in mountains (hazard ratio 1.10, 95% CI 0.73-1.66) or hills (hazard ratio 1.11, 95% CI 0.90-1.37) had a slightly higher risk of death than those living in the city. Only 197 (12.1%) of patients in the cohort were enrolled in the integrated care pathway over the course of 4 years. CONCLUSIONS Although clinical determinants outweigh the geographic and behavioural disparities in the survival of patients with CHF treated in primary care, effective prevention strategies are needed to address environmental and socio-geographic inequalities in access to primary care and to hasten equitable linkage to integrated care.
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- Cristina Pedroni
- Direzione delle Professioni Sanitarie, Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale ‐IRCCS di Reggio EmiliaReggio EmiliaItaly
- Laurea Magistrale in Scienze infermieristiche e OstetricheUniversity of Modena and Reggio EmiliaReggio EmiliaItaly
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- Epidemiology UnitAzienda Unità Sanitaria Locale–IRCCS di Reggio EmiliaReggio EmiliaItaly
- Department of Biomedical, Metabolic and Neural Sciences, Centre for Environmental, Nutritional and Genetic Epidemiology (CREAGEN), Public Health UnitUniversity of Modena and Reggio EmiliaReggio EmiliaItaly
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- Epidemiology UnitAzienda Unità Sanitaria Locale–IRCCS di Reggio EmiliaReggio EmiliaItaly
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- Division of CardiologyArcispedale Santa Maria Nuova, Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale‐IRCCS di Reggio EmiliaReggio EmiliaItaly
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- Risk Management UnitAzienda Unità Sanitaria Locale–IRCCS di Reggio EmiliaReggio EmiliaItaly
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- Primary Health Care DepartmentAzienda Unità Sanitaria Locale ‐ IRCCS di Reggio EmiliaReggio EmiliaItaly
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- Epidemiology UnitAzienda Unità Sanitaria Locale–IRCCS di Reggio EmiliaReggio EmiliaItaly
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van Barele M, Akdeniz D, Heemskerk-Gerritsen BAM, Andrieu N, Noguès C, van Asperen CJ, Wevers M, Ausems MGEM, de Bock GH, Dommering CJ, Gómez-García EB, van Leeuwen FE, Mooij TM, Easton DF, Antoniou AC, Evans DG, Izatt L, Tischkowitz M, Frost D, Brewer C, Olah E, Simard J, Singer CF, Thomassen M, Kast K, Rhiem K, Engel C, de la Hoya M, Foretová L, Jakubowska A, Jager A, Sattler MGA, Schmidt MK, Hooning MJ. Contralateral breast cancer risk in patients with breast cancer and a germline-BRCA1/2 pathogenic variant undergoing radiation. J Natl Cancer Inst 2023; 115:1318-1328. [PMID: 37369040 PMCID: PMC10637040 DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djad116] [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: 11/23/2022] [Revised: 03/06/2023] [Accepted: 05/27/2023] [Indexed: 06/29/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Radiation-induced secondary breast cancer (BC) may be a concern after radiation therapy (RT) for primary breast cancer (PBC), especially in young patients with germline (g)BRCA-associated BC who already have high contralateral BC (CBC) risk and potentially increased genetic susceptibility to radiation. We sought to investigate whether adjuvant RT for PBC increases the risk of CBC in patients with gBRCA1/2-associated BC. METHODS The gBRCA1/2 pathogenic variant carriers diagnosed with PBC were selected from the prospective International BRCA1/2 Carrier Cohort Study. We used multivariable Cox proportional hazards models to investigate the association between RT (yes vs no) and CBC risk. We further stratified for BRCA status and age at PBC diagnosis (<40 and >40 years). Statistical significance tests were 2-sided. RESULTS Of 3602 eligible patients, 2297 (64%) received adjuvant RT. Median follow-up was 9.6 years. The RT group had more patients with stage III PBC than the non-RT group (15% vs 3%, P < .001), received chemotherapy more often (81% vs 70%, P < .001), and received endocrine therapy more often (50% vs 35%, P < .001). The RT group had an increased CBC risk compared with the non-RT group (adjusted hazard ratio [HR] = 1.44; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.12 to 1.86). Statistical significance was observed in gBRCA2 (HR = 1.77; 95% CI = 1.13 to 2.77) but not in gBRCA1 pathogenic variant carriers (HR = 1.29; 95% CI = 0.93 to 1.77; P = .39 for interaction). In the combined gBRCA1/2 group, patients irradiated when they were younger than or older than 40 years of age at PBC diagnosis showed similar risks (HR = 1.38; 95% CI = 0.93 to 2.04 and HR = 1.56; 95% CI = 1.11 to 2.19, respectively). CONCLUSIONS RT regimens minimizing contralateral breast dose should be considered in gBRCA1/2 pathogenic variant carriers.
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- Mark van Barele
- Department of Medical Oncology, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Département d’Anticipation et de Suivi des Cancers, Oncogénétique Clinique, Institut Paoli-Calmettes, Marseille, France
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- INSERM, U900, Paris, France
- Institut Curie, Paris, France
- PSL Research University, Paris, France
- Mines ParisTech, Fontainebleau, France
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- Département d’Anticipation et de Suivi des Cancers, Oncogénétique Clinique, Institut Paoli-Calmettes, Marseille, France
- Institut Paoli-Calmettes & Aix Marseille University, INSERM, IRD, SESSTIM, Marseille, France
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- The Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Research Group Netherlands (HEBON), Coordinating Center, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, the Netherlands
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- Department for Clinical Genetics, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Division of Laboratories, Pharmacy and Biomedical Genetics, Department of Genetics, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Division of Psychosocial Research and Epidemiology, Netherlands Cancer Institute–Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Division of Psychosocial Research and Epidemiology, Netherlands Cancer Institute–Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- The Prevent Breast Cancer Research Unit, The Nightingale Centre, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK
- Genomic Medicine, Division of Evolution and Genomic Sciences, The University of Manchester, St Mary's Hospital, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK
- Manchester Breast Centre, Oglesby Cancer Research Centre, The Christie, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
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- Department of Medical Genetics, National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Program in Cancer Genetics, Departments of Human Genetics and Oncology, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, Exeter, UK
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Oncology, Budapest, Hungary
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- Genomics Center, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec, Université Laval Research Center, Quebec City, QC, Canada
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
- Centre for Personalized Response Monitoring in Oncology (PREMIO), Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark
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- Center of Familial Breast and Ovarian Cancer and Center of Integrated Oncology, University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Center of Familial Breast and Ovarian Cancer and Center of Integrated Oncology, University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria del Hospital Clínico San Carlos (IdISSC), Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
- Independent Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Genetic Diagnostics, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Radiotherapy, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Division of Psychosocial Research and Epidemiology, Netherlands Cancer Institute–Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- Division of Molecular Pathology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute–Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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Sarnak D, Wood SN, Anglewicz P, Gummerson E, Gichangi P, Thiongo M, Moreau C. Differential discontinuation by covert use status in Kenya. Contracept X 2023; 5:100102. [PMID: 37928365 PMCID: PMC10625140 DOI: 10.1016/j.conx.2023.100102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2023] [Revised: 10/10/2023] [Accepted: 10/12/2023] [Indexed: 11/07/2023] Open
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Objectives Qualitative research suggests that covert users may be more likely to discontinue contraception due to the logistics of discretion and fear of disclosure. This study sought to quantify whether covert users are more likely to discontinue contraception than overt users. Study design We used a national longitudinal survey from Kenya conducted from November 2019/February 2020 to November 2020/April 2021 to test whether the time to discontinuation between covert and overt users still in need of contraception differed using survival analyses over a period of 5 years since method initiation. Results Multivariate Cox regression results showed there was an interaction with time and covert use on the risk of discontinuation; for every additional month of use, there was an increased risk of discontinuation of covert users compared to overt users (3% increased hazard, p = 0.02). At 1 and 2 years, there were no differences in the hazard of discontinuation (adjusted hazard ratio [aHR]1 year 0.95, 95% CI 0.54-1.65 and aHR2 years 1.37, 95% CI 0.85-2.21), yet at 3, 4, and 5 years, the hazard of discontinuation was higher for covert compared to overt users (aHR3 years 1.99, 95% 1.11-3.56; aHR4 years 2.89, 95% CI 2.0-6.40; aHR5 years 4.18, 95% CI 1.45-12.0). Conclusions These results suggest efforts are needed to support covert users in managing their contraceptive use and for improving contraceptive counseling surrounding covert use. Our findings shed light on the increasing challenge covert users face after approximately the first 2 years of use; covert users require additional follow-up in both research and care provision. Implications Covert users are at a higher risk of discontinuation of contraception while still trying to avoid pregnancy, particularly after the first 2 years of use. Family planning providers and programs must protect access to and maintain the privacy of reproductive services to this population, focusing on follow-up care provision and counseling.
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- Dana Sarnak
- Department of Population Family and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States
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- Department of Population Family and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States
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- Department of Population Family and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States
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- Department of Population Family and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States
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- International Centre for Reproductive Health Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya
- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Ghent University Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent, Belgium
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- International Centre for Reproductive Health Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya
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- Department of Population Family and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States
- Soins et Santé Primaire, CESP Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health U1018, Inserm, Villejuif, France
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Caredda E, Pedini G, D'Amico F, Scioli MG, Pacini L, Orsaria P, Vanni G, Buonomo OC, Orlandi A, Bagni C, Palombi L. FMRP expression in primary breast tumor cells correlates with recurrence and specific site of metastasis. PLoS One 2023; 18:e0287062. [PMID: 37379311 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0287062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2022] [Accepted: 05/26/2023] [Indexed: 06/30/2023] Open
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Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women worldwide. Molecular and clinical evidence indicated that Fragile X Messenger Ribonucleoprotein 1 (FMRP) plays a role in different types of cancer, including breast cancer. FMRP is an RNA binding protein that regulates the metabolism of a large group of mRNAs coding for proteins involved in both neural processes and in epithelial-mesenchymal transition, a pivotal mechanism that in cancer is associated to tumor progression, aggressiveness and chemoresistance. Here, we carried out a retrospective case-control study of 127 patients, to study the expression of FMRP and its correlation with metastasis formation in breast cancer. Consistent with previous findings, we found that FMRP levels are high in tumor tissue. Two categories have been analyzed, tumor with no metastases (referred as control tumors, 84 patients) and tumor with distant metastatic repetition, (referred as cases, 43 patients), with a follow-up of 7 years (mean). We found that FMRP levels were lower in both the nuclei and the cytoplasm in the cases compared to control tumors. Next, within the category cases (tumor with metastases) we evaluated FMRP expression in the specific sites of metastasis revealing a nuclear staining of FMRP. In addition, FMRP expression in both the nuclear and cytoplasmic compartment was significantly lower in patients who developed brain and bone metastases and higher in hepatic and pulmonary sites. While further studies are required to explore the underlying molecular mechanisms of FMRP expression and direct or inverse correlation with the secondary metastatic site, our findings suggest that FMRP levels might be considered a prognostic factor for site-specific metastasis.
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- E Caredda
- Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, Faculty of Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
- Directorate-General for Health Prevention, Ministry of Health, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, Faculty of Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
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- Anatomic Pathology, Department Biomedicine and Prevention, Faculty of Medicine, Tor Vergata University Hospital, Rome, Italy
- Infectious Diseases Unit, Niguarda Hospital, Milan, Italy
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- Anatomic Pathology, Department Biomedicine and Prevention, Faculty of Medicine, Tor Vergata University Hospital, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, Faculty of Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
- UniCamillus, Saint Camillus International, Faculty of Medicine, University of Health and Medical Sciences, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Breast Surgery, University Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Tor Vergata University Hospital, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Tor Vergata University Hospital, Rome, Italy
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- Anatomic Pathology, Department Biomedicine and Prevention, Faculty of Medicine, Tor Vergata University Hospital, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, Faculty of Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
- Department of Fundamental Neurosciences (DNF), Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, Faculty of Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
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Harris HR, Guertin KA, Camacho TF, Johnson CE, Wu AH, Moorman PG, Myers E, Bethea TN, Bandera EV, Joslin CE, Ochs-Balcom HM, Peres LC, Rosenow WT, Setiawan VW, Beeghly-Fadiel A, Dempsey LF, Rosenberg L, Schildkraut JM. Racial disparities in epithelial ovarian cancer survival: An examination of contributing factors in the Ovarian Cancer in Women of African Ancestry consortium. Int J Cancer 2022; 151:1228-1239. [PMID: 35633315 PMCID: PMC9420829 DOI: 10.1002/ijc.34141] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2022] [Revised: 05/02/2022] [Accepted: 05/04/2022] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Black women diagnosed with epithelial ovarian cancer have poorer survival compared to white women. Factors that contribute to this disparity, aside from socioeconomic status and guideline-adherent treatment, have not yet been clearly identified. We examined data from the Ovarian Cancer in Women of African Ancestry (OCWAA) consortium which harmonized data on 1074 Black women and 3263 white women with ovarian cancer from seven US studies. We selected potential mediators and confounders by examining associations between each variable with race and survival. We then conducted a sequential mediation analysis using an imputation method to estimate total, direct, and indirect effects of race on ovarian cancer survival. Black women had worse survival than white women (HR = 1.30; 95% CI 1.16-1.47) during study follow-up; 67.9% of Black women and 69.8% of white women died. In our final model, mediators of this disparity include college education, nulliparity, smoking status, body mass index, diabetes, diabetes/race interaction, postmenopausal hormone (PMH) therapy duration, PMH duration/race interaction, PMH duration/age interaction, histotype, and stage. These mediators explained 48.8% (SE = 12.1%) of the overall disparity; histotype/stage and PMH duration accounted for the largest fraction. In summary, nearly half of the disparity in ovarian cancer survival between Black and white women in the OCWAA consortium is explained by education, lifestyle factors, diabetes, PMH use, and tumor characteristics. Our findings suggest that several potentially modifiable factors play a role. Further research to uncover additional mediators, incorporate data on social determinants of health, and identify potential avenues of intervention to reduce this disparity is urgently needed.
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- Holly R. Harris
- Program in Epidemiology, Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT, USA
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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- University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities Research, Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University Medical Campus, Washington, D.C., USA
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- Cancer Epidemiology and Health Outcomes, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago School of Medicine and Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health, School of Public Health and Health Professions, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, USA
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida, USA
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
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- University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Epidemiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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- Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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Grootes I, Keeman R, Blows FM, Milne RL, Giles GG, Swerdlow AJ, Fasching PA, Abubakar M, Andrulis IL, Anton-Culver H, Beckmann MW, Blomqvist C, Bojesen SE, Bolla MK, Bonanni B, Briceno I, Burwinkel B, Camp NJ, Castelao JE, Choi JY, Clarke CL, Couch FJ, Cox A, Cross SS, Czene K, Devilee P, Dörk T, Dunning AM, Dwek M, Easton DF, Eccles DM, Eriksson M, Ernst K, Evans DG, Figueroa JD, Fink V, Floris G, Fox S, Gabrielson M, Gago-Dominguez M, García-Sáenz JA, González-Neira A, Haeberle L, Haiman CA, Hall P, Hamann U, Harkness EF, Hartman M, Hein A, Hooning MJ, Hou MF, Howell SJ, Ito H, Jakubowska A, Janni W, John EM, Jung A, Kang D, Kristensen VN, Kwong A, Lambrechts D, Li J, Lubiński J, Manoochehri M, Margolin S, Matsuo K, Taib NAM, Mulligan AM, Nevanlinna H, Newman WG, Offit K, Osorio A, Park SK, Park-Simon TW, Patel AV, Presneau N, Pylkäs K, Rack B, Radice P, Rennert G, Romero A, Saloustros E, Sawyer EJ, Schneeweiss A, Schochter F, Schoemaker MJ, Shen CY, Shibli R, Sinn P, Tapper WJ, Tawfiq E, Teo SH, Teras LR, Torres D, Vachon CM, van Deurzen CHM, Wendt C, Williams JA, Winqvist R, Elwood M, Schmidt MK, García-Closas M, Pharoah PDP. Incorporating progesterone receptor expression into the PREDICT breast prognostic model. Eur J Cancer 2022; 173:178-193. [PMID: 35933885 PMCID: PMC10412460 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejca.2022.06.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2021] [Revised: 05/30/2022] [Accepted: 06/03/2022] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Predict Breast (www.predict.nhs.uk) is an online prognostication and treatment benefit tool for early invasive breast cancer. The aim of this study was to incorporate the prognostic effect of progesterone receptor (PR) status into a new version of PREDICT and to compare its performance to the current version (2.2). METHOD The prognostic effect of PR status was based on the analysis of data from 45,088 European patients with breast cancer from 49 studies in the Breast Cancer Association Consortium. Cox proportional hazard models were used to estimate the hazard ratio for PR status. Data from a New Zealand study of 11,365 patients with early invasive breast cancer were used for external validation. Model calibration and discrimination were used to test the model performance. RESULTS Having a PR-positive tumour was associated with a 23% and 28% lower risk of dying from breast cancer for women with oestrogen receptor (ER)-negative and ER-positive breast cancer, respectively. The area under the ROC curve increased with the addition of PR status from 0.807 to 0.809 for patients with ER-negative tumours (p = 0.023) and from 0.898 to 0.902 for patients with ER-positive tumours (p = 2.3 × 10-6) in the New Zealand cohort. Model calibration was modest with 940 observed deaths compared to 1151 predicted. CONCLUSION The inclusion of the prognostic effect of PR status to PREDICT Breast has led to an improvement of model performance and more accurate absolute treatment benefit predictions for individual patients. Further studies should determine whether the baseline hazard function requires recalibration.
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- Isabelle Grootes
- University of Cambridge, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK.
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- The Netherlands Cancer Institute - Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Division of Molecular Pathology, Amsterdam, 1066 CX, the Netherlands
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- University of Cambridge, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
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- Cancer Council Victoria, Cancer Epidemiology Division, Melbourne, Victoria, 3004, Australia; The University of Melbourne, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, Australia; Monash University, Precision Medicine, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Clayton, Victoria, 3168, Australia
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- Cancer Council Victoria, Cancer Epidemiology Division, Melbourne, Victoria, 3004, Australia; The University of Melbourne, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, Australia; Monash University, Precision Medicine, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Clayton, Victoria, 3168, Australia
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, London, SM2 5NG, UK; The Institute of Cancer Research, Division of Breast Cancer Research, London, SW7 3RP, UK
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- University of California at Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine, Department of Medicine Division of Hematology and Oncology, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA; Comprehensive Cancer Center Erlangen-EMN, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Erlangen, 91054, Germany
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- National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Bethesda, MD, 20850, USA
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- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital, Fred A. Litwin Center for Cancer Genetics, Toronto, ON, M5G 1X5, Canada; University of Toronto, Department of Molecular Genetics, Toronto, ON, M5S 1A8, Canada
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- University of California Irvine, Department of Medicine, Genetic Epidemiology Research Institute, Irvine, CA, 92617, USA
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- Comprehensive Cancer Center Erlangen-EMN, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Erlangen, 91054, Germany
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- University of Helsinki, Department of Oncology, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, 00290, Finland; Örebro University Hospital, Department of Oncology, Örebro, 70185, Sweden
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- Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen General Population Study, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Herlev, 2730, Denmark; Copenhagen University Hospital, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Herlev, 2730, Denmark; University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Copenhagen, 2200, Denmark
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- University of Cambridge, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
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- IEO, European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, Division of Cancer Prevention and Genetics, Milan, 20141, Italy
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- Universidad de La Sabana, Medical Faculty, Bogota, 140013, Colombia
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- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Molecular Epidemiology Group, C080, Heidelberg, 69120, Germany; University of Heidelberg, Molecular Biology of Breast Cancer, University Womens Clinic Heidelberg, Heidelberg, 69120, Germany
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- University of Utah, Department of Internal Medicine and Huntsman Cancer Institute, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112, USA
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- Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Galicia Sur (IISGS), Xerencia de Xestion Integrada de Vigo-SERGAS, Oncology and Genetics Unit, Vigo, 36312, Spain
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- Seoul National University Graduate School, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Seoul, 03080, South Korea; Seoul National University, Cancer Research Institute, Seoul, 03080, South Korea; Seoul National University Medical Research Center, Institute of Health Policy and Management, Seoul, 03080, South Korea
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- University of Sydney, Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Sydney, New South Wales, 2145, Australia
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- Mayo Clinic, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Rochester, MN, 55905, USA
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- University of Sheffield, Sheffield Institute for Nucleic Acids (SInFoNiA), Department of Oncology and Metabolism, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK
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- University of Sheffield, Academic Unit of Pathology, Department of Neuroscience, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK
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- Karolinska Institutet, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Stockholm, 171 65, Sweden
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- Leiden University Medical Center, Department of Pathology, Leiden, 2333 ZA, the Netherlands; Leiden University Medical Center, Department of Human Genetics, Leiden, 2333 ZA, the Netherlands
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- Hannover Medical School, Gynaecology Research Unit, Hannover, 30625, Germany
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- University of Cambridge, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
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- University of Westminster, School of Life Sciences, London, W1B 2HW, UK
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- University of Cambridge, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK; University of Cambridge, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
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- University of Southampton, Faculty of Medicine, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK
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- Karolinska Institutet, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Stockholm, 171 65, Sweden
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- University Hospital Ulm, Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Ulm, 89075, Germany
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- University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Division of Evolution and Genomic Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Manchester, M13 9WL, UK; St Mary's Hospital, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, North West Genomics Laboratory Hub, Manchester Centre for Genomic Medicine, Manchester, M13 9WL, UK
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- National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Bethesda, MD, 20850, USA; The University of Edinburgh, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, Edinburgh, EH16 4UX, UK; The University of Edinburgh, Cancer Research UK Edinburgh Centre, Edinburgh, EH4 2XR, UK
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- University Hospital Ulm, Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Ulm, 89075, Germany
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- Leuven Cancer Institute, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven Multidisciplinary Breast Center, Department of Oncology, Leuven, 3000, Belgium
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- Peter MacCallum Cancer Center, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3000
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- Karolinska Institutet, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Stockholm, 171 65, Sweden
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- Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago de Compostela (IDIS), Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago, SERGAS, Fundación Pública Galega de Medicina Xenómica, Santiago de Compostela, 15706, Spain; University of California San Diego, Moores Cancer Center, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA
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- Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria San Carlos (IdISSC), Centro Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Medical Oncology Department, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, 28040, Spain
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- Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Human Cancer Genetics Programme, Madrid, 28029, Spain
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- Comprehensive Cancer Center Erlangen-EMN, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Erlangen, 91054, Germany
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- University of Southern California, Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, USA
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- Karolinska Institutet, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Stockholm, 171 65, Sweden; Södersjukhuset, Department of Oncology, Stockholm, 118 83, Sweden
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- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Molecular Genetics of Breast Cancer, Heidelberg, 69120, Germany
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- University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Division of Informatics, Imaging and Data Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Manchester, M13 9PT, UK; Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Nightingale & Genesis Prevention Centre, Manchester, M23 9LT, UK; Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Unit, Manchester, M13 9WL, UK
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- National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, Singapore, 119077, Singapore; National University Health System, Department of Surgery, Singapore, 119228, Singapore
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- Comprehensive Cancer Center Erlangen-EMN, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Erlangen, 91054, Germany
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- Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Department of Medical Oncology, Rotterdam, 3015 GD, the Netherlands
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- Kaohsiung Municipal Hsiao-Kang Hospital, Department of Surgery, Kaohsiung, 812, Taiwan
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- University of Manchester, Division of Cancer Sciences, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK
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- Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute, Division of Cancer Information and Control, Nagoya, 464-8681, Japan; Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Division of Cancer Epidemiology, Nagoya, 466-8550, Japan
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- Pomeranian Medical University, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Szczecin, 71-252, Poland; Pomeranian Medical University, Independent Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Genetic Diagnostics, Szczecin, 71-252, Poland
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- University Hospital Ulm, Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Ulm, 89075, Germany
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- Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology & Population Health, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA; Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Oncology, Stanford, CA, 94304, USA
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- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Division of Cancer Epidemiology, Heidelberg, 69120, Germany
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- Seoul National University, Cancer Research Institute, Seoul, 03080, South Korea; Seoul National University College of Medicine, Department of Preventive Medicine, Seoul, 03080, South Korea
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- Oslo University Hospital and University of Oslo, Department of Medical Genetics, Oslo, 0379, Norway; University of Oslo, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Oslo, 0450, Norway
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- Hong Kong Hereditary Breast Cancer Family Registry, Hong Kong; The University of Hong Kong, Department of Surgery, Hong Kong; Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital, Department of Surgery and Cancer Genetics Center, Hong Kong
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- VIB Center for Cancer Biology, VIB, Leuven, 3001, Belgium; University of Leuven, Laboratory for Translational Genetics, Department of Human Genetics, Leuven, 3000, Belgium
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- Genome Institute of Singapore, Human Genetics Division, Singapore, 138672, Singapore
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- Pomeranian Medical University, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Szczecin, 71-252, Poland
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- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Molecular Genetics of Breast Cancer, Heidelberg, 69120, Germany
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- Södersjukhuset, Department of Oncology, Stockholm, 118 83, Sweden; Karolinska Institutet, Department of Clinical Science and Education, Södersjukhuset, Stockholm, 118 83, Sweden
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- Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Division of Cancer Epidemiology, Nagoya, 466-8550, Japan; Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention, Nagoya, 464-8681, Japan
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- University of Malaya, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Kuala Lumpur, 50603, Malaysia
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- University of Toronto, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Toronto, ON, M5S 1A8, Canada; University Health Network, Laboratory Medicine Program, Toronto, ON, M5G 2C4, Canada
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- University of Helsinki, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, 00290, Finland
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- University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Division of Evolution and Genomic Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Manchester, M13 9WL, UK; St Mary's Hospital, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, North West Genomics Laboratory Hub, Manchester Centre for Genomic Medicine, Manchester, M13 9WL, UK
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- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Clinical Genetics Research Lab, Department of Cancer Biology and Genetics, New York, NY, 10065, USA; Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Clinical Genetics Service, Department of Medicine, New York, NY, 10065, USA
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- Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Human Cancer Genetics Programme, Madrid, 28029, Spain; Centro de Investigación en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), Madrid, 28029, Spain
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- Seoul National University, Cancer Research Institute, Seoul, 03080, South Korea; Seoul National University College of Medicine, Department of Preventive Medicine, Seoul, 03080, South Korea; Seoul National University College of Medicine, Integrated Major in Innovative Medical Science, Seoul, 03080, South Korea
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- American Cancer Society, Department of Population Science, Atlanta, GA, 30303, USA
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- University of Westminster, School of Life Sciences, London, W1B 2HW, UK
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- University of Oulu, Laboratory of Cancer Genetics and Tumor Biology, Cancer and Translational Medicine Research Unit, Biocenter Oulu, Oulu, 90570, Finland; Northern Finland Laboratory Centre Oulu, Laboratory of Cancer Genetics and Tumor Biology, Oulu, 90570, Finland
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- University Hospital Ulm, Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Ulm, 89075, Germany
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- Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori (INT), Unit of Molecular Bases of Genetic Risk and Genetic Testing, Department of Research, Milan, 20133, Italy
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- Carmel Medical Center and Technion Faculty of Medicine, Clalit National Cancer Control Center, Haifa, 35254, Israel
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- Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro, Medical Oncology Department, Madrid, 28222, Spain
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- King's College London, School of Cancer & Pharmaceutical Sciences, Comprehensive Cancer Centre, Guy's Campus, London, UK
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- University of Heidelberg, Molecular Biology of Breast Cancer, University Womens Clinic Heidelberg, Heidelberg, 69120, Germany; University Hospital and German Cancer Research Center, National Center for Tumor Diseases, Heidelberg, 69120, Germany
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- University Hospital Ulm, Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Ulm, 89075, Germany
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, London, SM2 5NG, UK
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- Academia Sinica, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Taipei, 115, Taiwan; China Medical University, School of Public Health, Taichung, Taiwan
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- Carmel Medical Center and Technion Faculty of Medicine, Clalit National Cancer Control Center, Haifa, 35254, Israel
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- University Hospital Heidelberg, Department of Pathology, Institute of Pathology, Heidelberg, 69120, Germany
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- University of Southampton, Faculty of Medicine, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK
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- University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- University of Malaya, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Kuala Lumpur, 50603, Malaysia; Cancer Research Malaysia, Breast Cancer Research Programme, Subang Jaya, Selangor, 47500, Malaysia
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- American Cancer Society, Department of Population Science, Atlanta, GA, 30303, USA
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- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Molecular Genetics of Breast Cancer, Heidelberg, 69120, Germany; Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Institute of Human Genetics, Bogota, 110231, Colombia
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- Mayo Clinic, Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Division of Epidemiology, Rochester, MN, 55905, USA
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- Karolinska Institutet, Department of Clinical Science and Education, Södersjukhuset, Stockholm, 118 83, Sweden
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- University of Utah, Department of Internal Medicine and Huntsman Cancer Institute, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112, USA
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- University of Oulu, Laboratory of Cancer Genetics and Tumor Biology, Cancer and Translational Medicine Research Unit, Biocenter Oulu, Oulu, 90570, Finland; Northern Finland Laboratory Centre Oulu, Laboratory of Cancer Genetics and Tumor Biology, Oulu, 90570, Finland
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- University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- The Netherlands Cancer Institute - Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Division of Molecular Pathology, Amsterdam, 1066 CX, the Netherlands; The Netherlands Cancer Institute - Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Division of Psychosocial Research and Epidemiology, Amsterdam, 1066 CX, the Netherlands
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- National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Bethesda, MD, 20850, USA
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- University of Cambridge, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK; University of Cambridge, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
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Increased risk of being diagnosed with endometriosis in patients with Systemic lupus erythematosus: a population-based cohort study in Taiwan. Sci Rep 2022; 12:13336. [PMID: 35922461 PMCID: PMC9349269 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-17343-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2021] [Accepted: 07/25/2022] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Epidemiological study shows inconsistent results in the association between endometriosis and Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). We conducted a nationwide retrospective cohort study and analyzed data from the Taiwan Longitudinal Health Insurance Research Database 2000 (n = 958,349) over a 13-year follow-up period (2000-2013). After matching 1930 SLE women with 7720 non-SLE women in a 1:4 ratio by age, we used Cox proportional hazard regression to calculate the adjusted hazard ratio (aHR) for endometriosis diagnosed after SLE. We also used a diagnosis of endometriosis with previous gynecologic surgery codes as secondary outcomes and performed sensitivity analyses using a landmark analysis. After adjustment for age, urbanization, income, length of hospital stay, and comorbidities in the age-matched group, women with SLE had a higher risk of endometriosis than women without SLE (aHR 1.32, 95% CI 1.02-1.70). When we defined endometriosis as patients with an ICD-9 endometriosis code after undergoing gynecologic surgery, the increased risk of endometriosis in patients with SLE was not significant. Our findings suggest that the risk of endometriosis was significantly elevated in the cohort of women with SLE compared with the age-matched general cohort of women. The burden of endometriosis in SLE patients requires special attention.
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Survival of BRCA1/BRCA2-associated pT1 breast cancer patients, a cohort study. Breast Cancer Res Treat 2022; 194:159-170. [PMID: 35507134 PMCID: PMC9167195 DOI: 10.1007/s10549-022-06608-1] [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: 01/17/2022] [Accepted: 04/13/2022] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Purpose Intensive screening in BRCA1/2 mutation carriers aims to improve breast cancer (BC) prognosis. Our aim is to clarify the prognostic impact of tumor size in BRCA mutation carriers with a pT1 BC, which is currently unclear. We are especially interested in differences between pT1a, pT1b, and pT1c regarding the prognosis of node-negative breast cancer, the effect of chemotherapy, and the prevalence of lymph node involvement. Methods For this study, BRCA1/2-associated BC patients were selected from a nationwide cohort. Primary outcomes were 10-year overall survival (OS) per pT1a-b-c group and the effect of chemotherapy on prognosis of node-negative BC, using Kaplan–Meier and Cox models. Finally, we evaluated lymph node involvement per pT1a-b-c group. Results 963 women with pT1 BRCA1/2-associated BC diagnosed between 1990 and 2017 were included, of which 679 had pN0 BC. After a median follow-up of 10.5 years, 10-year OS in patients without chemotherapy was 77.1% in pT1cN0 and lower than for pT1aN0 (91.4%, p = 0.119) and pT1bN0 (90.8%, p = 0.024). OS was better with than without chemotherapy for pT1cN0 (91.6% vs. 77.1%, p = 0.001; hazard ratio (HR) 0.56, 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.21–1.48). Lymph node involvement was 24.9% in pT1c, 18.8% in pT1b, and 8.6% in pT1a. Conclusion Smaller tumor size is associated with better OS and less lymph node involvement in pT1 BRCA1/2-associated BC patients. The results suggest that early detection in BRCA1/2 mutation carriers of pT1a/b BC may reduce mortality and the need for systemic therapy. Supplementary Information The online version of this article contains supplementary material available (10.1007/s10549-022-06608-1.
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Fung KW, Baik SH, Baye F, Zheng Z, Huser V, McDonald CJ. Effect of common maintenance drugs on the risk and severity of COVID-19 in elderly patients. PLoS One 2022; 17:e0266922. [PMID: 35436293 PMCID: PMC9015134 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0266922] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2021] [Accepted: 03/29/2022] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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Background Maintenance drugs are used to treat chronic conditions. Several classes of maintenance drugs have attracted attention because of their potential to affect susceptibility to and severity of COVID-19. Methods Using claims data on 20% random sample of Part D Medicare enrollees from April to December 2020, we identified patients diagnosed with COVID-19. Using a nested case-control design, non-COVID-19 controls were identified by 1:5 matching on age, race, sex, dual-eligibility status, and geographical region. We identified usage of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEI), angiotensin-receptor blockers (ARB), statins, warfarin, direct factor Xa inhibitors, P2Y12 inhibitors, famotidine and hydroxychloroquine based on Medicare prescription claims data. Using extended Cox regression models with time-varying propensity score adjustment we examined the independent effect of each study drug on contracting COVID-19. For severity of COVID-19, we performed extended Cox regressions on all COVID-19 patients, using COVID-19-related hospitalization and all-cause mortality as outcomes. Covariates included gender, age, race, geographic region, low-income indicator, and co-morbidities. To compensate for indication bias related to the use of hydroxychloroquine for the prophylaxis or treatment of COVID-19, we censored patients who only started on hydroxychloroquine in 2020. Results Up to December 2020, our sample contained 374,229 Medicare patients over 65 who were diagnosed with COVID-19. Among the COVID-19 patients, 278,912 (74.6%) were on at least one study drug. The three most common study drugs among COVID-19 patients were statins 187,374 (50.1%), ACEI 97,843 (26.2%) and ARB 83,290 (22.3%). For all three outcomes (diagnosis, hospitalization and death), current users of ACEI, ARB, statins, warfarin, direct factor Xa inhibitors and P2Y12 inhibitors were associated with reduced risks, compared to never users. Famotidine did not show consistent significant effects. Hydroxychloroquine did not show significant effects after censoring of recent starters. Conclusion Maintenance use of ACEI, ARB, warfarin, statins, direct factor Xa inhibitors and P2Y12 inhibitors was associated with reduction in risk of acquiring COVID-19 and dying from it.
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- Kin Wah Fung
- Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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Redelmeier DA, Singh SM. Long-term mortality of academy award winning actors and actresses. PLoS One 2022; 17:e0266563. [PMID: 35417469 PMCID: PMC9007384 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0266563] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2021] [Accepted: 03/22/2022] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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Background Social status gradients are powerful health determinants for individuals living in poverty. We tested whether winning an Academy award (Oscar) for acting was associated with long-term survival. Methods We conducted a longitudinal cohort analysis of all actors and actresses nominated for an Academy award in a leading or a supporting role. For each, a control was identified based on age, sex, and co-staring in the same film. Results Overall, 2,111 individuals were analyzed with 1,122 total deaths occurring during a median follow-up of 68.8 years. Comparisons of winners to controls yielded a 4.8% relative difference average life-span (95% confidence interval: 1.6 to 7.9, p = 0.004), a 5.1 year absolute increase in life expectancy (95% confidence interval: 3.0 to 7.2, p < 0.001), and a 41% improvement in mortality hazard (95% confidence interval: 19 to 68, p < 0.001). The increased survival tended to be greater in recent years, for individuals winning at a younger age, and among those with multiple wins. The increased survival replicated in secondary analyses comparing winners to nominees and was not observed in analyses comparing nominees to controls. Conclusions Academy award winning actors and actresses show a positive association between success and survival, suggesting the importance of behavioral, psychological, or other modifiable health factors unrelated to poverty.
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- Donald A. Redelmeier
- Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- Evaluative Clinical Sciences Platform, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, Canada
- Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences in Ontario, Toronto, Canada
- Division of General Internal Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada
- Centre for Leading Injury Prevention Practice Education & Research, Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- Schulich Heart Program, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada
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Cohort profile: The Singapore Breast Cancer Cohort (SGBCC), a multi-center breast cancer cohort for evaluation of phenotypic risk factors and genetic markers. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0250102. [PMID: 33901219 PMCID: PMC8075208 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0250102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2020] [Accepted: 03/30/2021] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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This article aims to provide a detailed description of the Singapore Breast Cancer Cohort (SGBCC), an ongoing multi-ethnic cohort established with the overarching goal to identify genetic markers for breast cancer risk, prognosis and treatment response, as well as to understand the ethnic differences in disease risk and outcome in an Asian setting. The cohort comprises of breast cancer patients aged 21 years and above from six public hospitals which diagnose and treat nearly 76% breast cancer cases in Singapore. Self-reported data on sociodemographic and lifestyle, reproductive risk factors, medical history and family history of breast or ovarian cancer is collected using a structured questionnaire. Clinical data on tumour characteristics, and treatment modalities are obtained through medical record. Bio-specimens (blood or saliva) is collected at recruitment. Follow-up on survival information is done through routine linkage with the Registry of Births and Deaths. As of 31 December 2016, 7,768 subjects have been recruited to the study with 76% subjects contributed bio-specimens. The SGBCC provides a valuable platform which offers a unique, large and rich resource for new research ideas on breast cancer related phenotypic risk factors and genetic markers.
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Johnson N, Maguire S, Morra A, Kapoor PM, Tomczyk K, Jones ME, Schoemaker MJ, Gilham C, Bolla MK, Wang Q, Dennis J, Ahearn TU, Andrulis IL, Anton-Culver H, Antonenkova NN, Arndt V, Aronson KJ, Augustinsson A, Baynes C, Freeman LEB, Beckmann MW, Benitez J, Bermisheva M, Blomqvist C, Boeckx B, Bogdanova NV, Bojesen SE, Brauch H, Brenner H, Burwinkel B, Campa D, Canzian F, Castelao JE, Chanock SJ, Chenevix-Trench G, Clarke CL, Conroy DM, Couch FJ, Cox A, Cross SS, Czene K, Dörk T, Eliassen AH, Engel C, Evans DG, Fasching PA, Figueroa J, Floris G, Flyger H, Gago-Dominguez M, Gapstur SM, García-Closas M, Gaudet MM, Giles GG, Goldberg MS, González-Neira A, Guénel P, Hahnen E, Haiman CA, Håkansson N, Hall P, Hamann U, Harrington PA, Hart SN, Hooning MJ, Hopper JL, Howell A, Hunter DJ, Jager A, Jakubowska A, John EM, Kaaks R, Keeman R, Khusnutdinova E, Kitahara CM, Kosma VM, Koutros S, Kraft P, Kristensen VN, Kurian AW, Lambrechts D, Le Marchand L, Linet M, Lubiński J, Mannermaa A, Manoukian S, Margolin S, Martens JWM, Mavroudis D, Mayes R, Meindl A, Milne RL, Neuhausen SL, Nevanlinna H, Newman WG, Nielsen SF, Nordestgaard BG, Obi N, Olshan AF, Olson JE, Olsson H, Orban E, Park-Simon TW, Peterlongo P, Plaseska-Karanfilska D, Pylkäs K, Rennert G, Rennert HS, Ruddy KJ, Saloustros E, Sandler DP, Sawyer EJ, Schmutzler RK, Scott C, Shu XO, Simard J, Smichkoska S, Sohn C, Southey MC, Spinelli JJ, Stone J, Tamimi RM, Taylor JA, Tollenaar RAEM, Tomlinson I, Troester MA, Truong T, Vachon CM, van Veen EM, Wang SS, Weinberg CR, Wendt C, Wildiers H, Winqvist R, Wolk A, Zheng W, Ziogas A, Dunning AM, Pharoah PDP, Easton DF, Howie AF, Peto J, Dos-Santos-Silva I, Swerdlow AJ, Chang-Claude J, Schmidt MK, Orr N, Fletcher O. CYP3A7*1C allele: linking premenopausal oestrone and progesterone levels with risk of hormone receptor-positive breast cancers. Br J Cancer 2021; 124:842-854. [PMID: 33495599 PMCID: PMC7884683 DOI: 10.1038/s41416-020-01185-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2020] [Revised: 10/21/2020] [Accepted: 11/05/2020] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Epidemiological studies provide strong evidence for a role of endogenous sex hormones in the aetiology of breast cancer. The aim of this analysis was to identify genetic variants that are associated with urinary sex-hormone levels and breast cancer risk. METHODS We carried out a genome-wide association study of urinary oestrone-3-glucuronide and pregnanediol-3-glucuronide levels in 560 premenopausal women, with additional analysis of progesterone levels in 298 premenopausal women. To test for the association with breast cancer risk, we carried out follow-up genotyping in 90,916 cases and 89,893 controls from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium. All women were of European ancestry. RESULTS For pregnanediol-3-glucuronide, there were no genome-wide significant associations; for oestrone-3-glucuronide, we identified a single peak mapping to the CYP3A locus, annotated by rs45446698. The minor rs45446698-C allele was associated with lower oestrone-3-glucuronide (-49.2%, 95% CI -56.1% to -41.1%, P = 3.1 × 10-18); in follow-up analyses, rs45446698-C was also associated with lower progesterone (-26.7%, 95% CI -39.4% to -11.6%, P = 0.001) and reduced risk of oestrogen and progesterone receptor-positive breast cancer (OR = 0.86, 95% CI 0.82-0.91, P = 6.9 × 10-8). CONCLUSIONS The CYP3A7*1C allele is associated with reduced risk of hormone receptor-positive breast cancer possibly mediated via an effect on the metabolism of endogenous sex hormones in premenopausal women.
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- Nichola Johnson
- The Breast Cancer Now Toby Robins Research Centre, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK.
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- Centre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, Ireland, UK
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- Division of Molecular Pathology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute - Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- The Breast Cancer Now Toby Robins Research Centre, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- Department of Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Fred A. Litwin Center for Cancer Genetics, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Epidemiology, Genetic Epidemiology Research Institute, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
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- N.N. Alexandrov Research Institute of Oncology and Medical Radiology, Minsk, Belarus
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- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, and Cancer Research Institute, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Comprehensive Cancer Center ER-EMN, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
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- Centro de Investigación en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), Madrid, Spain
- Human Cancer Genetics Programme, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Federal Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, Russia
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- Department of Oncology, Helsinki University Hospital, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Department of Oncology, Örebro University Hospital, Örebro, Sweden
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- VIB Center for Cancer Biology, Leuven, Belgium
- Laboratory for Translational Genetics, Department of Human Genetics, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- N.N. Alexandrov Research Institute of Oncology and Medical Radiology, Minsk, Belarus
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
- Gynaecology Research Unit, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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- Copenhagen General Population Study, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev, Denmark
- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Dr. Margarete Fischer-Bosch-Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Stuttgart, Germany
- iFIT-Cluster of Excellence, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- Division of Preventive Oncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Molecular Epidemiology Group, C080, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- Molecular Biology of Breast Cancer, University Womens Clinic Heidelberg, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- Department of Biology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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- Genomic Epidemiology Group, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Oncology and Genetics Unit, Instituto de Investigacion Sanitaria Galicia Sur (IISGS), Xerencia de Xestion Integrada de Vigo-SERGAS, Vigo, Spain
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Computational Biology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Westmead Institute for Medical Research, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Sheffield Institute for Nucleic Acids (SInFoNiA), Department of Oncology and Metabolism, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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- Academic Unit of Pathology, Department of Neuroscience, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Gynaecology Research Unit, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, 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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- Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
- LIFE - Leipzig Research Centre for Civilization Diseases, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- Division of Evolution and Genomic Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, UK
- North West Genomics Laboratory Hub, Manchester Centre for Genomic Medicine, St Mary's Hospital, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, UK
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Comprehensive Cancer Center ER-EMN, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
- David Geffen School of Medicine, Department of Medicine Division of Hematology and Oncology, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD, USA
- Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Cancer Research UK Edinburgh Centre, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Leuven Multidisciplinary Breast Center, Department of Oncology, Leuven Cancer Institute, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Breast Surgery, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev, Denmark
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- Fundación Pública Galega de Medicina Xenómica, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago de Compostela (IDIS), Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago, SERGAS, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- Moores Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Behavioral and Epidemiology Research Group, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Behavioral and Epidemiology Research Group, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA, USA
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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 Medicine, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada
- Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Royal Victoria Hospital, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Human Cancer Genetics Programme, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain
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- Center for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), Team Exposome and Heredity, INSERM, University Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France
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- Center for Familial Breast and Ovarian Cancer, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
- Center for Integrated Oncology (CIO), Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Oncology, Södersjukhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Molecular Genetics of Breast Cancer, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Division of Cancer Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
- Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
- Independent Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Genetic Diagnostics, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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- Department of Epidemiology & Population Health, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
- Department of Medicine, Division of Oncology, Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Molecular Pathology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute - Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Federal Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, Russia
- Department of Genetics and Fundamental Medicine, Bashkir State University, Ufa, Russia
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- Radiation Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Translational Cancer Research Area, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
- Biobank of Eastern Finland, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
- Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Medical Genetics, Oslo University Hospital and University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Epidemiology & Population Health, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
- Department of Medicine, Division of Oncology, Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- VIB Center for Cancer Biology, Leuven, Belgium
- Laboratory for Translational Genetics, Department of Human Genetics, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Epidemiology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, HI, USA
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- Radiation Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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- Translational Cancer Research Area, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
- Biobank of Eastern Finland, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
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- Unit of Medical Genetics, Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Oncology, Södersjukhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Clinical Science and Education, Södersjukhuset, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Oncology, University Hospital of Heraklion, Heraklion, Greece
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University of Munich, Campus Großhadern, Munich, Germany
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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 Population Sciences, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Duarte, CA, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Helsinki University Hospital, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Division of Evolution and Genomic Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, UK
- North West Genomics Laboratory Hub, Manchester Centre for Genomic Medicine, St Mary's Hospital, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, UK
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- Copenhagen General Population Study, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev, Denmark
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- Copenhagen General Population Study, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev, Denmark
- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Institute of Medical Biometry and Epidemiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health and UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Cancer Epidemiology Group, University Cancer Center Hamburg (UCCH), University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- Genome Diagnostics Program, IFOM - the FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology, Milan, Italy
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- Research Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 'Georgi D. Efremov', MASA, Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia
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- Laboratory of Cancer Genetics and Tumor Biology, Cancer and Translational Medicine Research Unit, Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Laboratory of Cancer Genetics and Tumor Biology, Northern Finland Laboratory Centre Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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- Clalit National Cancer Control Center, Carmel Medical Center and Technion Faculty of Medicine, Haifa, Israel
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- Clalit National Cancer Control Center, Carmel Medical Center and Technion Faculty of Medicine, Haifa, Israel
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- Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
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- School of Cancer & Pharmaceutical Sciences, Comprehensive Cancer Centre, Guy's Campus, King's College London, London, UK
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- Center for Familial Breast and Ovarian Cancer, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
- Center for Integrated Oncology (CIO), Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
- Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne (CMMC), Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, 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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- Genomics Center, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec - Université Laval Research Center, Québec City, QC, Canada
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- Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Medical Faculty, University Clinic of Radiotherapy and Oncology, Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia
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- National Center for Tumor Diseases, University Hospital and German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Cancer Epidemiology Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Precision Medicine, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
- Department of Clinical Pathology, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Population Oncology, BC Cancer, Vancouver, BC, Canada
- School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- The Curtin UWA Centre for Genetic Origins of Health and Disease, Curtin University and University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Population Health Sciences, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
- Epigenetic and Stem Cell Biology Laboratory, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics and Oxford NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health and UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Center for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), Team Exposome and Heredity, INSERM, University Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France
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- Department of Health Science Research, Division of Epidemiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Division of Evolution and Genomic Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, UK
- North West Genomics Laboratory Hub, Manchester Centre for Genomic Medicine, St Mary's Hospital, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, UK
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- Department of Computational and Quantitative Medicine, City of Hope, Duarte, CA, USA
- City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, City of Hope, Duarte, CA, USA
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- Biostatistics and Computational Biology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
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- Department of Clinical Science and Education, Södersjukhuset, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Leuven Multidisciplinary Breast Center, Department of Oncology, Leuven Cancer Institute, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Laboratory of Cancer Genetics and Tumor Biology, Cancer and Translational Medicine Research Unit, Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Laboratory of Cancer Genetics and Tumor Biology, Northern Finland Laboratory Centre Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Surgical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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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 Epidemiology, Genetic Epidemiology Research Institute, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- MRC Centre for Reproductive Health, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Department of Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Department of Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
- Division of Breast Cancer Research, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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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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- Division of Molecular Pathology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute - Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Division of Psychosocial Research and Epidemiology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute - Antoni van Leeuwenhoek hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Centre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, Ireland, UK
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- The Breast Cancer Now Toby Robins Research Centre, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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Olafsdottir EJ, Borg A, Jensen MB, Gerdes AM, Johansson ALV, Barkardottir RB, Johannsson OT, Ejlertsen B, Sønderstrup IMH, Hovig E, Lænkholm AV, Hansen TVO, Olafsdottir GH, Rossing M, Jonasson JG, Sigurdsson S, Loman N, Nilsson MP, Narod SA, Tryggvadottir L. Breast cancer survival in Nordic BRCA2 mutation carriers-unconventional association with oestrogen receptor status. Br J Cancer 2020; 123:1608-1615. [PMID: 32939053 PMCID: PMC7686356 DOI: 10.1038/s41416-020-01056-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2020] [Revised: 08/06/2020] [Accepted: 08/25/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Background The natural history of breast cancer among BRCA2 carriers has not been clearly established. In a previous study from Iceland, positive ER status was a negative prognostic factor. We sought to identify factors that predicted survival after invasive breast cancer in an expanded cohort of BRCA2 carriers. Methods We studied 608 women with invasive breast cancer and a pathogenic BRCA2 mutation (variant) from four Nordic countries. Information on prognostic factors and treatment was retrieved from health records and by analysis of archived tissue specimens. Hazard ratios (HR) were estimated for breast cancer-specific survival using Cox regression. Results About 77% of cancers were ER-positive, with the highest proportion (83%) in patients under 40 years. ER-positive breast cancers were more likely to be node-positive (59%) than ER-negative cancers (34%) (P < 0.001). The survival analysis included 584 patients. Positive ER status was protective in the first 5 years from diagnosis (multivariate HR = 0.49; 95% CI 0.26–0.93, P = 0.03); thereafter, the effect was adverse (HR = 1.91; 95% CI 1.07–3.39, P = 0.03). The adverse effect of positive ER status was limited to women who did not undergo endocrine treatment (HR = 2.36; 95% CI 1.26–4.44, P = 0.01) and patients with intact ovaries (HR = 1.99; 95% CI 1.11–3.59, P = 0.02). Conclusions The adverse effect of a positive ER status in BRCA2 carriers with breast cancer may be contingent on exposure to ovarian hormones.
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- Division of Oncology and Pathology, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Danish Breast Cancer Cooperative Group, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, Department of Pathology, Landspitali University Hospital, Reykjavik, Iceland.,Faculty of Medicine, BMC, Laeknagardur, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Department of Oncology, Landspitali University Hospital, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Danish Breast Cancer Cooperative Group, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.,Department of Clinical Oncology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Tumor Biology, Institute for Cancer Research, Radium Hospital, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Surgical Pathology, Zealand University Hospital, Slagelse, Denmark
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Center for Genomic Medicine, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.,Department of Pathology, Landspitali University Hospital, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Cancer Research Laboratory, BMC, School of Health Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Division of Oncology and Pathology, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.,Department of Hematology, Oncology and Radiation Physics, Skåne University Hospital, Lund, Sweden
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- Division of Oncology and Pathology, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.,Department of Hematology, Oncology and Radiation Physics, Skåne University Hospital, Lund, Sweden
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- Womens' College Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Icelandic Cancer Registry, Icelandic Cancer Society, Reykjavik, Iceland. .,Faculty of Medicine, BMC, Laeknagardur, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.
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Baik SH, McDonald CJ. Independent effects of 15 commonly prescribed drugs on all-cause mortality among US elderly patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. BMJ Open Diabetes Res Care 2020; 8:8/1/e000940. [PMID: 32341050 PMCID: PMC7202731 DOI: 10.1136/bmjdrc-2019-000940] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2019] [Revised: 02/28/2020] [Accepted: 03/21/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
Abstract
OBJECTIVE Most patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) also have hypertension and hyperlipidemia. Consequently, they are taking medications for all three conditions concurrently and the effect of one drug could be confounded with that of another. This study aimed to determine the independent effects of 15 commonly prescribed medications for three conditions on the risk of all-cause mortality among elderly patients with T2DM. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A cohort of 360 437 elderly patients with T2DM from 2007 to 2016 US Medicare data was traced along with cumulative uses of 8 diabetes, 6 hypertension and 1 hyperlipidemia drugs. The relative risk of all-cause mortality for each study drug was estimated using an extended Cox regression analysis adjusting for the concurrent use of other study drugs. RESULTS Compared with the no use of each study medication, mortality risk declined with use of 3 diabetes drugs, sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (HR=0.73; 95% CI 0.64 to 0.84), glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (HR=0.75; 95% CI 0.70 to 0.80) and dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors (HR=0.94; 95% CI 0.91 to 0.98), the use of 3 blood pressure medications, diuretics (HR=0.89; 95% CI 0.87 to 0.92), angiotensin receptor blockers (HR=0.86; 95% CI 0.84 to 0.89), ACE inhibitors (HR=0.98; 95% CI 0.95 to 1.01) as well as statins (HR=0.83; 95% CI 0.80 to 0.85). It increased moderately with insulin (HR=1.55; 95% CI 1.51 to 1.59), sulfonylureas (HR=1.16; 95% CI 1.13 to 1.20), a small inconsistent amount with metformin (HR=1.05), beta-blockers (HR=1.07), dihydropyridine calcium-channel blockers (HR=0.99) and non-dihydropyridine calcium-channel blockers (HR=1.05). The use of thiazolidinedione had no effect. CONCLUSION Among older patients with diabetes, mortality risk decreased importantly with three new diabetes drugs, 3 blood pressure drugs and statins. It increased moderately with sulfonylurea and insulin. Studies of aggressive use of new T2DM drugs instead of sulfonylureas and insulin are needed. Our statin results empirically validate two national guidelines for using statins in older patients with diabetes. However, 23% of study patients never took a statin, suggesting missed opportunities for prevention.
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- Seo H Baik
- Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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Jayasekara H, MacInnis RJ, Chamberlain JA, Dite GS, Leoce NM, Dowty JG, Bickerstaffe A, Win AK, Milne RL, Giles GG, Terry MB, Eccles DM, Southey MC, Hopper JL. Mortality after breast cancer as a function of time since diagnosis by estrogen receptor status and age at diagnosis. Int J Cancer 2019; 145:3207-3217. [PMID: 30771221 DOI: 10.1002/ijc.32214] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2018] [Revised: 01/16/2019] [Accepted: 01/23/2019] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
Abstract
Our aim was to estimate how long-term mortality following breast cancer diagnosis depends on age at diagnosis, tumor estrogen receptor (ER) status, and the time already survived. We used the population-based Australian Breast Cancer Family Study which followed-up 1,196 women enrolled during 1992-1999 when aged <60 years at diagnosis with a first primary invasive breast cancer, over-sampled for younger ages at diagnosis, for whom tumor pathology features and ER status were measured. There were 375 deaths (median follow-up = 15.7; range = 0.8-21.4, years). We estimated the mortality hazard as a function of time since diagnosis using a flexible parametric survival analysis with ER status a time-dependent covariate. For women with ER-negative tumors compared with those with ER-positive tumors, 5-year mortality was initially higher (p < 0.001), similar if they survived to 5 years (p = 0.4), and lower if they survived to 10 years (p = 0.02). The estimated mortality hazard for ER-negative disease peaked at ~3 years post-diagnosis, thereafter declined with time, and at 7 years post-diagnosis became lower than that for ER-positive disease. This pattern was more pronounced for women diagnosed at younger ages. Mortality was also associated with lymph node count (hazard ratio (HR) per 10 nodes = 2.52 [95% CI:2.11-3.01]) and tumor grade (HR per grade = 1.62 [95% CI:1.34-1.96]). The risk of death following a breast cancer diagnosis differs substantially and qualitatively with diagnosis age, ER status and time survived. For women who survive >7 years, those with ER-negative disease will on average live longer, and more so if younger at diagnosis.
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- Harindra Jayasekara
- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.,Cancer Epidemiology and Intelligence Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.,Colorectal Oncogenomics Group, Department of Clinical Pathology, Melbourne Medical School, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.,University of Melbourne Centre for Cancer Research, Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.,Cancer Epidemiology and Intelligence Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Cancer Epidemiology and Intelligence Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, NY, New York
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.,University of Melbourne Centre for Cancer Research, Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.,Genetic Medicine and Family Cancer Clinic, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, VIC, Australia
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.,Cancer Epidemiology and Intelligence Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.,Precision Medicine, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.,Cancer Epidemiology and Intelligence Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, NY, New York.,Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center, NY, New York
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- Cancer Sciences Academic Unit and Southampton Clinical Trials Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton and University Hospital Southampton Foundation Trust, Southampton, United Kingdom
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- Precision Medicine, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia.,Genetic Epidemiology Laboratory, Department of Clinical Pathology, Melbourne Medical School, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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Escala-Garcia M, Guo Q, Dörk T, Canisius S, Keeman R, Dennis J, Beesley J, Lecarpentier J, Bolla MK, Wang Q, Abraham J, Andrulis IL, Anton-Culver H, Arndt V, Auer PL, Beckmann MW, Behrens S, Benitez J, Bermisheva M, Bernstein L, Blomqvist C, Boeckx B, Bojesen SE, Bonanni B, Børresen-Dale AL, Brauch H, Brenner H, Brentnall A, Brinton L, Broberg P, Brock IW, Brucker SY, Burwinkel B, Caldas C, Caldés T, Campa D, Canzian F, Carracedo A, Carter BD, Castelao JE, Chang-Claude J, Chanock SJ, Chenevix-Trench G, Cheng TYD, Chin SF, Clarke CL, Cordina-Duverger E, Couch FJ, Cox DG, Cox A, Cross SS, Czene K, Daly MB, Devilee P, Dunn JA, Dunning AM, Durcan L, Dwek M, Earl HM, Ekici AB, Eliassen AH, Ellberg C, Engel C, Eriksson M, Evans DG, Figueroa J, Flesch-Janys D, Flyger H, Gabrielson M, Gago-Dominguez M, Galle E, Gapstur SM, García-Closas M, García-Sáenz JA, Gaudet MM, George A, Georgoulias V, Giles GG, Glendon G, Goldgar DE, González-Neira A, Alnæs GIG, Grip M, Guénel P, Haeberle L, Hahnen E, Haiman CA, Håkansson N, Hall P, Hamann U, Hankinson S, Harkness EF, Harrington PA, Hart SN, Hartikainen JM, Hein A, Hillemanns P, Hiller L, Holleczek B, Hollestelle A, Hooning MJ, Hoover RN, Hopper JL, Howell A, Huang G, Humphreys K, Hunter DJ, Janni W, John EM, Jones ME, Jukkola-Vuorinen A, Jung A, Kaaks R, Kabisch M, Kaczmarek K, Kerin MJ, Khan S, Khusnutdinova E, Kiiski JI, Kitahara CM, Knight JA, Ko YD, Koppert LB, Kosma VM, Kraft P, Kristensen VN, Krüger U, Kühl T, Lambrechts D, Le Marchand L, Lee E, Lejbkowicz F, Li L, Lindblom A, Lindström S, Linet M, Lissowska J, Lo WY, Loibl S, Lubiński J, Lux MP, MacInnis RJ, Maierthaler M, Maishman T, Makalic E, Mannermaa A, Manoochehri M, Manoukian S, Margolin S, Martinez ME, Mavroudis D, McLean C, Meindl A, Middha P, Miller N, Milne RL, Moreno F, Mulligan AM, Mulot C, Nassir R, Neuhausen SL, Newman WT, Nielsen SF, Nordestgaard BG, Norman A, Olsson H, Orr N, Pankratz VS, Park-Simon TW, Perez JIA, Pérez-Barrios C, Peterlongo P, Petridis C, Pinchev M, Prajzendanc K, Prentice R, Presneau N, Prokofieva D, Pylkäs K, Rack B, Radice P, Ramachandran D, Rennert G, Rennert HS, Rhenius V, Romero A, Roylance R, Saloustros E, Sawyer EJ, Schmidt DF, Schmutzler RK, Schneeweiss A, Schoemaker MJ, Schumacher F, Schwentner L, Scott RJ, Scott C, Seynaeve C, Shah M, Simard J, Smeets A, Sohn C, Southey MC, Swerdlow AJ, Talhouk A, Tamimi RM, Tapper WJ, Teixeira MR, Tengström M, Terry MB, Thöne K, Tollenaar RAEM, Tomlinson I, Torres D, Truong T, Turman C, Turnbull C, Ulmer HU, Untch M, Vachon C, van Asperen CJ, van den Ouweland AMW, van Veen EM, Wendt C, Whittemore AS, Willett W, Winqvist R, Wolk A, Yang XR, Zhang Y, Easton DF, Fasching PA, Nevanlinna H, Eccles DM, Pharoah PDP, Schmidt MK. Genome-wide association study of germline variants and breast cancer-specific mortality. Br J Cancer 2019; 120:647-657. [PMID: 30787463 PMCID: PMC6461853 DOI: 10.1038/s41416-019-0393-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2018] [Revised: 01/02/2019] [Accepted: 01/14/2019] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND We examined the associations between germline variants and breast cancer mortality using a large meta-analysis of women of European ancestry. METHODS Meta-analyses included summary estimates based on Cox models of twelve datasets using ~10.4 million variants for 96,661 women with breast cancer and 7697 events (breast cancer-specific deaths). Oestrogen receptor (ER)-specific analyses were based on 64,171 ER-positive (4116) and 16,172 ER-negative (2125) patients. We evaluated the probability of a signal to be a true positive using the Bayesian false discovery probability (BFDP). RESULTS We did not find any variant associated with breast cancer-specific mortality at P < 5 × 10-8. For ER-positive disease, the most significantly associated variant was chr7:rs4717568 (BFDP = 7%, P = 1.28 × 10-7, hazard ratio [HR] = 0.88, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.84-0.92); the closest gene is AUTS2. For ER-negative disease, the most significant variant was chr7:rs67918676 (BFDP = 11%, P = 1.38 × 10-7, HR = 1.27, 95% CI = 1.16-1.39); located within a long intergenic non-coding RNA gene (AC004009.3), close to the HOXA gene cluster. CONCLUSIONS We uncovered germline variants on chromosome 7 at BFDP < 15% close to genes for which there is biological evidence related to breast cancer outcome. However, the paucity of variants associated with mortality at genome-wide significance underpins the challenge in providing genetic-based individualised prognostic information for breast cancer patients.
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- Maria Escala-Garcia
- The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Division of Molecular Pathology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- University of Cambridge, Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Cambridge, UK.
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- Hannover Medical School, Gynaecology Research Unit, Hannover, Germany
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- The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Division of Molecular Pathology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Division of Molecular Carcinogenesis, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Division of Molecular Pathology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- University of Cambridge, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Cambridge, UK
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- QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Department of Genetics and Computational Biology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- University of Cambridge, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Cambridge, UK
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- University of Cambridge, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Cambridge, UK
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- University of Cambridge, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Cambridge, UK
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- University of Cambridge, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, Cambridge, UK
- Cambridge Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre, Cambridge, UK
- University of Cambridge NHS Foundation Hospitals, Cambridge Breast Unit and NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, Cambridge, UK
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- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital, Fred A. Litwin Center for Cancer Genetics, Toronto, ON, Canada
- University of Toronto, Department of Molecular Genetics, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- University of California Irvine, Department of Epidemiology, Genetic Epidemiology Research Institute, Irvine, CA, USA
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- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Cancer Prevention Program, Seattle, WA, USA
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Zilber School of Public Health, Milwaukee, WI, USA
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- University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Comprehensive Cancer Center ER-EMN, Erlangen, Germany
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- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Division of Cancer Epidemiology, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Human Cancer Genetics Programme, Madrid, Spain
- Biomedical Network on Rare Diseases (CIBERER), Madrid, Spain
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- Ufa Scientific Center of Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa, Russia
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- Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Department of Population Sciences, Duarte, CA, USA
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- University of Helsinki, Department of Oncology, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
- Örebro University Hospital, Department of Oncology, Örebro, Sweden
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- VIB, VIB Center for Cancer Biology, Leuven, Belgium
- University of Leuven, Laboratory for Translational Genetics, Department of Human Genetics, Leuven, Belgium
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- Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen General Population Study, Herlevand Gentofte Hospital, Herlev, Denmark
- Copenhagen University Hospital, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Herlev, Denmark
- University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Division of Cancer Prevention and Genetics, IEO, European Institute of Oncology IRCCS Milan, Milan, 20141, Italy
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- Oslo University Hospital-Radiumhospitalet, Department of Cancer Genetics, Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo, Norway
- University of Oslo, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Research, Vestre Viken Hospital, Drammen, Norway; Section for Breast- and Endocrine Surgery, Department of Cancer, Division of Surgery, Cancer and Transplantation Medicine, Oslo University Hospital-Ullevål, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Pathology at Akershus University hospital, Lørenskog, Norway
- Department of Tumor Biology, Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Oncology, Division of Surgery and Cancer and Transplantation Medicine, Oslo University Hospital-Radiumhospitalet, Oslo, Norway
- National Advisory Unit on Late Effects after Cancer Treatment, Department of Oncology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Oncology, Akershus University Hospital, Lørenskog, Norway
- Breast Cancer Research Consortium, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- Dr. Margarete Fischer-Bosch-Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Stuttgart, Germany
- University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), Heidelberg, Germany
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- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, Heidelberg, Germany
- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), Heidelberg, Germany
- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), Division of Preventive Oncology, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Queen Mary University of London, Centre for Cancer Prevention, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, London, UK
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- National Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Lund University, Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Clinical Sciences, Lund, Sweden
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- University of Sheffield, Sheffield Institute for Nucleic Acids (SInFoNiA), Department of Oncology and Metabolism, Sheffield, UK
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- University of Tübingen, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Tübingen, Germany
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- University of Heidelberg, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Heidelberg, Germany
- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Molecular Epidemiology Group, C080, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Cambridge Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre, Cambridge, UK
- University of Cambridge NHS Foundation Hospitals, Cambridge Breast Unit and NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, Cambridge, UK
- The Institute of Cancer Research, Section of Cancer Genetics, London, UK
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- Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria San Carlos (IdISSC), Centro Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Medical Oncology Department, Hospital Cl'nico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain
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- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Division of Cancer Epidemiology, Heidelberg, Germany
- University of Pisa, Department of Biology, Pisa, Italy
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- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Molecular Epidemiology Group, C080, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Angel Carracedo
- Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago de Compostela (IDIS), Genomic Medicine Group, Galician Foundation of Genomic Medicine, SERGAS, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Centro de Investigación en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), Santiago De Compostela, Spain
- King Abdulaziz University, Center of Excellence in Genomic Medicine, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
| | - Brian D Carter
- American Cancer Society, Epidemiology Research Program, Atlanta, GA, USA
| | - Jose E Castelao
- Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Galicia Sur (IISGS), Xerencia de Xestion Integrada de Vigo-SERGAS, Oncology and Genetics Unit, Vigo, Spain
| | - Jenny Chang-Claude
- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Division of Cancer Epidemiology, Heidelberg, Germany
- University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Cancer Epidemiology Group, University Cancer Center Hamburg (UCCH), Hamburg, Germany
| | - Stephen J Chanock
- National Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Bethesda, MD, USA
| | - Georgia Chenevix-Trench
- QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Department of Genetics and Computational Biology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
| | - Ting-Yuan David Cheng
- Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, Buffalo, NY, USA
| | - Suet-Feung Chin
- University of Cambridge, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Cambridge, UK
| | - Christine L Clarke
- University of Sydney, Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Sydney, NSW, Australia
| | - Emilie Cordina-Duverger
- INSERM, University Paris-Sud, University Paris-Saclay, Cancer & Environment Group, Center for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), Villejuif, France
| | - Fergus J Couch
- Mayo Clinic, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Rochester, MN, USA
| | - David G Cox
- Imperial College London, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, London, UK
- Cancer Research Center of Lyon, INSERM U1052, Lyon, France
| | - Angela Cox
- University of Sheffield, Sheffield Institute for Nucleic Acids (SInFoNiA), Department of Oncology and Metabolism, Sheffield, UK
| | - Simon S Cross
- University of Sheffield, Academic Unit of Pathology, Department of Neuroscience, Sheffield, UK
| | - Kamila Czene
- Karolinska Institutet, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Mary B Daly
- Fox Chase Cancer Center, Department of Clinical Genetics, Philadelphia, PA, USA
| | - Peter Devilee
- Leiden University Medical Center, Department of Pathology, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Leiden University Medical Center, Department of Human Genetics, Leiden, The Netherlands
| | - Janet A Dunn
- University of Warwick, Warwick Clinical Trials Unit, Coventry, UK
| | - Alison M Dunning
- University of Cambridge, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, Cambridge, UK
| | - Lorraine Durcan
- University of Southampton, Southampton Clinical Trials Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Southampton, UK
- University of Southampton, Cancer Sciences Academic Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Southampton, UK
| | - Miriam Dwek
- University of Westminster, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, London, UK
| | - Helena M Earl
- University of Cambridge NHS Foundation Hospitals, Cambridge Breast Unit and NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, Cambridge, UK
- University of Cambridge, Department of Oncology, Cambridge, UK
| | - Arif B Ekici
- Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Comprehensive Cancer Center Erlangen-EMN, Institute of Human Genetics, University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
| | - A Heather Eliassen
- Harvard Medical School, Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Carolina Ellberg
- Lund University, Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Clinical Sciences, Lund, Sweden
| | - Christoph Engel
- University of Leipzig, Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, Leipzig, Germany
- University of Leipzig, LIFE - Leipzig Research Centre for Civilization Diseases, Leipzig, Germany
| | - Mikael Eriksson
- Karolinska Institutet, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - D Gareth Evans
- University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Division of Evolution and Genomic Medicine, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Manchester, UK
- St Marys Hospital, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester Centre for Genomic Medicine, Manchester, UK
| | - Jonine Figueroa
- National Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Bethesda, MD, USA
- The University of Edinburgh Medical School, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, Edinburgh, UK
- Cancer Research UK Edinburgh Centre, Edinburgh, UK
| | - Dieter Flesch-Janys
- University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf, Institute for Medical Biometrics and Epidemiology, Hamburg, Germany
- University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf, Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Clinical Cancer Registry, Hamburg, Germany
| | - Henrik Flyger
- Copenhagen University Hospital, Department of Breast Surgery, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Herlev, Denmark
| | - Marike Gabrielson
- Karolinska Institutet, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Manuela Gago-Dominguez
- Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago de Compostela (IDIS), Genomic Medicine Group, Galician Foundation of Genomic Medicine, SERGAS, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- University of California San Diego, Moores Cancer Center, La Jolla, CA, USA
| | - Eva Galle
- VIB, VIB Center for Cancer Biology, Leuven, Belgium
- University of Leuven, Laboratory for Translational Genetics, Department of Human Genetics, Leuven, Belgium
| | - Susan M Gapstur
- American Cancer Society, Epidemiology Research Program, Atlanta, GA, USA
| | - Montserrat García-Closas
- National Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Bethesda, MD, USA
- Institute of Cancer Research, Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, London, UK
| | - José A García-Sáenz
- Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria San Carlos (IdISSC), Centro Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Medical Oncology Department, Hospital Cl'nico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain
| | - Mia M Gaudet
- American Cancer Society, Epidemiology Research Program, Atlanta, GA, USA
| | - Angela George
- The Institute of Cancer Research, Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, London, UK
- The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Cancer Genetics Unit, London, UK
| | | | - Graham G Giles
- Cancer Council Victoria, Cancer Epidemiology & Intelligence Division, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- The University of Melbourne, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Monash University, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
| | - Gord Glendon
- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital, Fred A. Litwin Center for Cancer Genetics, Toronto, ON, Canada
| | - David E Goldgar
- Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah School of Medicine, Department of Dermatology, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
| | - Anna González-Neira
- Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Human Cancer Genetics Programme, Madrid, Spain
| | - Grethe I Grenaker Alnæs
- Oslo University Hospital-Radiumhospitalet, Department of Cancer Genetics, Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo, Norway
| | - Mervi Grip
- University of Oulu, Department of Surgery, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland
| | - Pascal Guénel
- INSERM, University Paris-Sud, University Paris-Saclay, Cancer & Environment Group, Center for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), Villejuif, France
| | - Lothar Haeberle
- Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Comprehensive Cancer Centre Erlangen-EMN, Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
| | - Eric Hahnen
- University Hospital of Cologne, Centre for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer, Cologne, Germany
- University of Cologne, Centre for Molecular Medicine Cologne (CMMC), Cologne, Germany
| | - Christopher A Haiman
- University of Southern California, Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA
| | - Niclas Håkansson
- Karolinska Institutet, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Per Hall
- Karolinska Institutet, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Stockholm, Sweden
- South General Hospital, Department of Oncology, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Ute Hamann
- German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ), Molecular Genetics of Breast Cancer, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Susan Hankinson
- University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Department of Biostatistics & Epidemiology, Amherst, MA, USA
| | - Elaine F Harkness
- University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Division of Informatics, Imaging and Data Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Manchester, UK
- Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Nightingale Breast Screening Centre, Manchester, UK
- Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Unit, Manchester, UK
| | - Patricia A Harrington
- University of Cambridge, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, Cambridge, UK
| | - Steven N Hart
- Mayo Clinic, Department of Health Sciences Research, Rochester, MN, USA
| | - Jaana M Hartikainen
- University of Eastern Finland, Translational Cancer Research Area, Kuopio, Finland
- University of Eastern Finland, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Kuopio, Finland
- Kuopio University Hospital, Imaging Centre, Department of Clinical Pathology, Kuopio, Finland
| | - Alexander Hein
- University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Comprehensive Cancer Center ER-EMN, Erlangen, Germany
| | - Peter Hillemanns
- Hannover Medical School, Gynaecology Research Unit, Hannover, Germany
| | - Louise Hiller
- University of Warwick, Warwick Clinical Trials Unit, Coventry, UK
| | | | - Antoinette Hollestelle
- Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Department of Medical Oncology, Family Cancer Clinic, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Maartje J Hooning
- Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Department of Medical Oncology, Family Cancer Clinic, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Robert N Hoover
- National Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Bethesda, MD, USA
| | - John L Hopper
- The University of Melbourne, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
| | - Anthony Howell
- University of Manchester, Institute of Cancer studies, Manchester, UK
| | - Guanmengqian Huang
- German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ), Molecular Genetics of Breast Cancer, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Keith Humphreys
- Karolinska Institutet, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - David J Hunter
- Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, Boston, MA, USA
- Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Boston, MA, USA
- University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Population Health, Oxford, UK
| | | | - Esther M John
- Cancer Prevention Institute of California, Department of Epidemiology, Fremont, CA, USA
- Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Health Research and Policy - Epidemiology, Stanford, CA, USA
- Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford, CA, USA
| | - Michael E Jones
- Institute of Cancer Research, Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, London, UK
| | | | - Audrey Jung
- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Division of Cancer Epidemiology, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Rudolf Kaaks
- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Division of Cancer Epidemiology, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Maria Kabisch
- German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ), Molecular Genetics of Breast Cancer, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Katarzyna Kaczmarek
- Pomeranian Medical University, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Szczecin, Poland
| | - Michael J Kerin
- National University of Ireland, Surgery, School of Medicine, Galway, Ireland
| | - Sofia Khan
- University of Helsinki, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Elza Khusnutdinova
- Ufa Scientific Center of Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa, Russia
- Bashkir State University, Department of Genetics and Fundamental Medicine, Ufa, Russia
| | - Johanna I Kiiski
- University of Helsinki, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Cari M Kitahara
- National Cancer Institute, Radiation Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Bethesda, MD, USA
| | - Julia A Knight
- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, Prosserman Centre for Population Health Research, Toronto, ON, Canada
- University of Toronto, Division of Epidemiology, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Toronto, ON, Canada
| | - Yon-Dschun Ko
- Johanniter Krankenhaus, Department of Internal Medicine, Evangelische Kliniken Bonn gGmbH, Bonn, Germany
| | - Linetta B Koppert
- Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Department of Surgical Oncology, Family Cancer Clinic, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Veli-Matti Kosma
- University of Eastern Finland, Translational Cancer Research Area, Kuopio, Finland
- University of Eastern Finland, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Kuopio, Finland
- Kuopio University Hospital, Imaging Centre, Department of Clinical Pathology, Kuopio, Finland
| | - Peter Kraft
- Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, Boston, MA, USA
- Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Vessela N Kristensen
- Oslo University Hospital-Radiumhospitalet, Department of Cancer Genetics, Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo, Norway
- University of Oslo, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Research, Vestre Viken Hospital, Drammen, Norway; Section for Breast- and Endocrine Surgery, Department of Cancer, Division of Surgery, Cancer and Transplantation Medicine, Oslo University Hospital-Ullevål, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Pathology at Akershus University hospital, Lørenskog, Norway
- Department of Tumor Biology, Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Oncology, Division of Surgery and Cancer and Transplantation Medicine, Oslo University Hospital-Radiumhospitalet, Oslo, Norway
- National Advisory Unit on Late Effects after Cancer Treatment, Department of Oncology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Oncology, Akershus University Hospital, Lørenskog, Norway
- Breast Cancer Research Consortium, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
| | - Ute Krüger
- Lund University, Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Clinical Sciences, Lund, Sweden
| | - Tabea Kühl
- University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Cancer Epidemiology Group, University Cancer Center Hamburg (UCCH), Hamburg, Germany
| | - Diether Lambrechts
- VIB, VIB Center for Cancer Biology, Leuven, Belgium
- University of Leuven, Laboratory for Translational Genetics, Department of Human Genetics, Leuven, Belgium
| | - Loic Le Marchand
- University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Epidemiology Program, Honolulu, HI, USA
| | - Eunjung Lee
- University of Southern California, Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA
| | - Flavio Lejbkowicz
- Carmel Medical Center and Technion Faculty of Medicine, Clalit National Cancer Control Center, Haifa, Israel
| | - Lian Li
- Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Department of Epidemiology, Tianjin, China
| | - Annika Lindblom
- Karolinska Institutet, Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Sara Lindström
- University of Washington School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, Seattle, WA, USA
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Public Health Sciences Division, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Martha Linet
- National Cancer Institute, Radiation Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Bethesda, MD, USA
| | - Jolanta Lissowska
- M. Sklodowska-Curie Cancer Centre, Oncology Institute, Department of Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention, Warsaw, Poland
| | - Wing-Yee Lo
- Dr. Margarete Fischer-Bosch-Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Stuttgart, Germany
- University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
| | | | - Jan Lubiński
- Pomeranian Medical University, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Szczecin, Poland
| | - Michael P Lux
- Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Comprehensive Cancer Centre Erlangen-EMN, Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
| | - Robert J MacInnis
- Cancer Council Victoria, Cancer Epidemiology & Intelligence Division, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- The University of Melbourne, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
| | - Melanie Maierthaler
- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Molecular Epidemiology Group, C080, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Tom Maishman
- University of Southampton, Southampton Clinical Trials Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Southampton, UK
- University of Southampton, Cancer Sciences Academic Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Southampton, UK
| | - Enes Makalic
- The University of Melbourne, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
| | - Arto Mannermaa
- University of Eastern Finland, Translational Cancer Research Area, Kuopio, Finland
- University of Eastern Finland, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Kuopio, Finland
- Kuopio University Hospital, Imaging Centre, Department of Clinical Pathology, Kuopio, Finland
| | - Mehdi Manoochehri
- German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ), Molecular Genetics of Breast Cancer, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Siranoush Manoukian
- Fondazione IRCCS (Istituto Di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico) Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori (INT), Unit of Medical Genetics, Department of Medical Oncology and Haematology, Milan, Italy
| | - Sara Margolin
- Karolinska Institutet, Department of Clinical Science and Education, Sšdersjukhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Maria Elena Martinez
- University of California San Diego, Moores Cancer Center, La Jolla, CA, USA
- University of California San Diego, Department of Family Medicine and Public Health, La Jolla, CA, USA
| | - Dimitrios Mavroudis
- University Hospital of Heraklion, Department of Medical Oncology, Heraklion, Greece
| | - Catriona McLean
- The Alfred Hospital, Anatomical Pathology, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
| | - Alfons Meindl
- Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Munich, Germany
| | - Pooja Middha
- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Division of Cancer Epidemiology, Heidelberg, Germany
- University of Heidelberg, Faculty of Medicine, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Nicola Miller
- National University of Ireland, Surgery, School of Medicine, Galway, Ireland
| | - Roger L Milne
- Cancer Council Victoria, Cancer Epidemiology & Intelligence Division, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- The University of Melbourne, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
| | - Fernando Moreno
- Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria San Carlos (IdISSC), Centro Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Medical Oncology Department, Hospital Cl'nico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain
| | - Anna Marie Mulligan
- University of Toronto, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Toronto, ON, Canada
- University Health Network, Laboratory Medicine Program, Toronto, ON, Canada
| | - Claire Mulot
- INSERM UMR-S1147, Université Paris Sorbonne Cité, Paris, France
| | - Rami Nassir
- University of California Davis, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, Davis, CA, USA
| | - Susan L Neuhausen
- Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Department of Population Sciences, Duarte, CA, USA
| | - William T Newman
- University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Division of Evolution and Genomic Medicine, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Manchester, UK
- St Marys Hospital, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester Centre for Genomic Medicine, Manchester, UK
| | - Sune F Nielsen
- Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen General Population Study, Herlevand Gentofte Hospital, Herlev, Denmark
- Copenhagen University Hospital, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Herlev, Denmark
| | - Børge G Nordestgaard
- Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen General Population Study, Herlevand Gentofte Hospital, Herlev, Denmark
- Copenhagen University Hospital, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Herlev, Denmark
- University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Aaron Norman
- Mayo Clinic, Department of Health Sciences Research, Rochester, MN, USA
| | - Håkan Olsson
- Lund University, Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Clinical Sciences, Lund, Sweden
| | - Nick Orr
- Queen's University Belfast, Centre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology, Belfast, Ireland, UK
| | - V Shane Pankratz
- University of New Mexico, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, NM, USA
| | | | - Jose I A Perez
- Hospital Monte Naranco, Servicio de Cirug'a General y Especialidades, Oviedo, Spain
| | - Clara Pérez-Barrios
- Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro, Medical Oncology Department, Madrid, Spain
| | - Paolo Peterlongo
- The FIRC (Italian Foundation for Cancer Research) Institute of Molecular Oncology, IFOM, Milan, Italy
| | - Christos Petridis
- King's College London, Research Oncology, Guy's Hospital, London, UK
| | - Mila Pinchev
- Carmel Medical Center and Technion Faculty of Medicine, Clalit National Cancer Control Center, Haifa, Israel
| | - Karoliona Prajzendanc
- Pomeranian Medical University, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Szczecin, Poland
| | - Ross Prentice
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Cancer Prevention Program, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Nadege Presneau
- University of Westminster, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, London, UK
| | - Darya Prokofieva
- Bashkir State University, Department of Genetics and Fundamental Medicine, Ufa, Russia
| | - Katri Pylkäs
- University of Oulu, Laboratory of Cancer Genetics and Tumour Biology, Cancer and Translational Medicine Research Unit, Biocentre Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Northern Finland Laboratory Centre Oulu, Laboratory of Cancer Genetics and Tumour Biology, Oulu, Finland
| | - Brigitte Rack
- Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Munich, Germany
| | - Paolo Radice
- Fondazione IRCCS (Istituto Di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico) Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori (INT), Unit of Molecular Bases of Genetic Risk and Genetic Testing, Department of Research, Milan, Italy
| | | | - Gadi Rennert
- Carmel Medical Center and Technion Faculty of Medicine, Clalit National Cancer Control Center, Haifa, Israel
| | - Hedy S Rennert
- Carmel Medical Center and Technion Faculty of Medicine, Clalit National Cancer Control Center, Haifa, Israel
| | - Valerie Rhenius
- University of Cambridge, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, Cambridge, UK
| | - Atocha Romero
- Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro, Medical Oncology Department, Madrid, Spain
| | | | | | - Elinor J Sawyer
- King's College London, Research Oncology, Guy's Hospital, London, UK
| | - Daniel F Schmidt
- The University of Melbourne, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
| | - Rita K Schmutzler
- University Hospital of Cologne, Centre for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer, Cologne, Germany
- University of Cologne, Centre for Molecular Medicine Cologne (CMMC), Cologne, Germany
| | - Andreas Schneeweiss
- University of Heidelberg, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Heidelberg, Germany
- University of Heidelberg, National Centre for Tumour Diseases, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Minouk J Schoemaker
- The Institute of Cancer Research, Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, London, UK
| | - Fredrick Schumacher
- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland, OH, USA
| | | | - Rodney J Scott
- John Hunter Hospital, Division of Molecular Medicine, Pathology North, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
- University of Newcastle, Discipline of Medical Genetics, School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, Faculty of Health, Callaghan, NSW, Australia
- John Hunter Hospital, Hunter Medical Research Institute, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
- University of Newcastle, Centre for Information Based Medicine, Callaghan, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
| | - Christopher Scott
- Mayo Clinic, Department of Health Sciences Research, Rochester, MN, USA
| | - Caroline Seynaeve
- Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Department of Medical Oncology, Family Cancer Clinic, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Mitul Shah
- University of Cambridge, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, Cambridge, UK
| | - Jacques Simard
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec - Université Laval Research Centre, Genomics Centre, Québec City, QC, Canada
| | - Ann Smeets
- University Hospitals Leuven, Department of Surgical Oncology, Leuven, Belgium
| | - Christof Sohn
- University of Heidelberg, National Centre for Tumour Diseases, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Melissa C Southey
- Monash University, Precision Medicine, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
- The University of Melbourne, Department of Clinical Pathology, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
| | - Anthony J Swerdlow
- The Institute of Cancer Research, Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, London, UK
- The Institute of Cancer Research, Division of Breast Cancer Research, London, UK
| | - Aline Talhouk
- BC Cancer Agency and University of British Columbia, British Columbia's Ovarian Cancer Research (OVCARE) Program, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada
- University of British Columbia, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Vancouver, BC, Canada
- University of British Columbia, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Vancouver, BC, Canada
| | - Rulla M Tamimi
- Harvard Medical School, Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, Boston, MA, USA
- Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Boston, MA, USA
| | | | - Manuel R Teixeira
- Portuguese Oncology Institute, Department of Genetics, Porto, Portugal
- University of Porto, Biomedical Sciences Institute (ICBAS), Porto, Portugal
| | - Maria Tengström
- University of Eastern Finland, Translational Cancer Research Area, Kuopio, Finland
- Kuopio University Hospital, Cancer Centre, Kuopio, Finland
- University of Eastern Finland, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Oncology, Kuopio, Finland
| | - Mary Beth Terry
- Columbia University, Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY, USA
| | - Kathrin Thöne
- University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Cancer Epidemiology Group, University Cancer Center Hamburg (UCCH), Hamburg, Germany
| | - Rob A E M Tollenaar
- Leiden University Medical Centre, Department of Surgery, Leiden, The Netherlands
| | - Ian Tomlinson
- University of Birmingham, Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, Birmingham, UK
- University of Oxford, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics and Oxford NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford, UK
| | - Diana Torres
- German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ), Molecular Genetics of Breast Cancer, Heidelberg, Germany
- Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Institute of Human Genetics, Bogota, Colombia
| | - Thérèse Truong
- INSERM, University Paris-Sud, University Paris-Saclay, Cancer & Environment Group, Center for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), Villejuif, France
| | - Constance Turman
- Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Clare Turnbull
- The Institute of Cancer Research, Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, London, UK
| | | | - Michael Untch
- Helios Clinics Berlin-Buch, Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Berlin, Germany
| | - Celine Vachon
- Mayo Clinic, Department of Health Sciences Research, Rochester, MN, USA
| | - Christi J van Asperen
- Leiden University Medical Centre, Department of Clinical Genetics, Leiden, The Netherlands
| | | | - Elke M van Veen
- University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Division of Evolution and Genomic Medicine, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Manchester, UK
- St Marys Hospital, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester Centre for Genomic Medicine, Manchester, UK
| | - Camilla Wendt
- Karolinska Institutet, Department of Clinical Science and Education, Södersjukhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Alice S Whittemore
- Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Health Research and Policy - Epidemiology, Stanford, CA, USA
- Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford, CA, USA
| | - Walter Willett
- Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, Boston, MA, USA
- Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Department of Nutrition, Boston, MA, USA
- Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Channing Division of Network Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Robert Winqvist
- University of Oulu, Laboratory of Cancer Genetics and Tumour Biology, Cancer and Translational Medicine Research Unit, Biocentre Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Northern Finland Laboratory Centre Oulu, Laboratory of Cancer Genetics and Tumour Biology, Oulu, Finland
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- Karolinska Institutet, Department of Environmental Medicine, Division of Nutritional Epidemiology, Stockholm, Sweden
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- National Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, Heidelberg, Germany
- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), Heidelberg, Germany
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- University of Cambridge, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Cambridge, UK
- University of Cambridge, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, Cambridge, UK
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- University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Comprehensive Cancer Center ER-EMN, Erlangen, Germany
- University of California at Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine, Department of Medicine Division of Hematology and Oncology, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- University of Helsinki, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
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- University of Southampton, Cancer Sciences Academic Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Southampton, UK
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- University of Cambridge, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Cambridge, UK
- University of Cambridge, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, Cambridge, UK
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- The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Division of Molecular Pathology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- The Netherlands Cancer Institute - Antoni van Leeuwenhoek hospital, Division of Psychosocial Research and Epidemiology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Guo Q, Burgess S, Turman C, Bolla MK, Wang Q, Lush M, Abraham J, Aittomäki K, Andrulis IL, Apicella C, Arndt V, Barrdahl M, Benitez J, Berg CD, Blomqvist C, Bojesen SE, Bonanni B, Brand JS, Brenner H, Broeks A, Burwinkel B, Caldas C, Campa D, Canzian F, Chang-Claude J, Chanock SJ, Chin SF, Couch FJ, Cox A, Cross SS, Cybulski C, Czene K, Darabi H, Devilee P, Diver WR, Dunning AM, Earl HM, Eccles DM, Ekici AB, Eriksson M, Evans DG, Fasching PA, Figueroa J, Flesch-Janys D, Flyger H, Gapstur SM, Gaudet MM, Giles GG, Glendon G, Grip M, Gronwald J, Haeberle L, Haiman CA, Hall P, Hamann U, Hankinson S, Hartikainen JM, Hein A, Hiller L, Hogervorst FB, Holleczek B, Hooning MJ, Hoover RN, Humphreys K, Hunter DJ, Hüsing A, Jakubowska A, Jukkola-Vuorinen A, Kaaks R, Kabisch M, Kataja V, Knight JA, Koppert LB, Kosma VM, Kristensen VN, Lambrechts D, Le Marchand L, Li J, Lindblom A, Lindström S, Lissowska J, Lubinski J, Machiela MJ, Mannermaa A, Manoukian S, Margolin S, Marme F, Martens JWM, McLean C, Menéndez P, Milne RL, Marie Mulligan A, Muranen TA, Nevanlinna H, Neven P, Nielsen SF, Nordestgaard BG, Olson JE, Perez JIA, Peterlongo P, Phillips KA, Poole CJ, Pylkäs K, Radice P, Rahman N, Rüdiger T, Rudolph A, Sawyer EJ, Schumacher F, Seibold P, Seynaeve C, Shah M, Smeets A, Southey MC, Tollenaar RAEM, Tomlinson I, Tsimiklis H, Ulmer HU, Vachon C, van den Ouweland AMW, Van’t Veer LJ, Wildiers H, Willett W, Winqvist R, Zamora MP, Chenevix-Trench G, Dörk T, Easton DF, García-Closas M, Kraft P, Hopper JL, Zheng W, Schmidt MK, Pharoah PDP. Body mass index and breast cancer survival: a Mendelian randomization analysis. Int J Epidemiol 2017; 46:1814-1822. [PMID: 29232439 PMCID: PMC5837506 DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyx131] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Revised: 03/21/2017] [Accepted: 06/29/2017] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
Abstract
Background There is increasing evidence that elevated body mass index (BMI) is associated with reduced survival for women with breast cancer. However, the underlying reasons remain unclear. We conducted a Mendelian randomization analysis to investigate a possible causal role of BMI in survival from breast cancer. Methods We used individual-level data from six large breast cancer case-cohorts including a total of 36 210 individuals (2475 events) of European ancestry. We created a BMI genetic risk score (GRS) based on genotypes at 94 known BMI-associated genetic variants. Association between the BMI genetic score and breast cancer survival was analysed by Cox regression for each study separately. Study-specific hazard ratios were pooled using fixed-effect meta-analysis. Results BMI genetic score was found to be associated with reduced breast cancer-specific survival for estrogen receptor (ER)-positive cases [hazard ratio (HR) = 1.11, per one-unit increment of GRS, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.01-1.22, P = 0.03). We observed no association for ER-negative cases (HR = 1.00, per one-unit increment of GRS, 95% CI 0.89-1.13, P = 0.95). Conclusions Our findings suggest a causal effect of increased BMI on reduced breast cancer survival for ER-positive breast cancer. There is no evidence of a causal effect of higher BMI on survival for ER-negative breast cancer cases.
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- Qi Guo
- Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Cambridge Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Helsinki University Hospital, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Fred A. Litwin Center for Cancer Genetics, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada
- Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
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- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Human Cancer Genetics Program, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Madrid, Spain
- Centro de Investigación en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), Valencia, Spain
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, USA
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- Department of Oncology, Helsinki University Hospital, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Copenhagen General Population Study, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev, Denmark
- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Division of Cancer Prevention and Genetics, Istituto Europeo di Oncologia, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- Division of Preventive Oncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), Heidelberg, Germany
- German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Molecular Pathology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute – Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
- Molecular Epidemiology Group, C080, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Cambridge Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre, Cambridge, UK
- Cambridge Breast Unit and NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, University of Cambridge NHS Foundation Hospitals, Cambridge, UK
- Breast Cancer Functional Genomics Laboratory, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge, Li Ka Shing Centre, UK
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- Department of Biology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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- Genomic Epidemiology Group, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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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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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, USA
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- Breast Cancer Functional Genomics Laboratory, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge, Li Ka Shing Centre, UK
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Academic Unit of Molecular Oncology, Department of Oncology and Metabolism, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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- Academic Unit of Pathology, Department of Neuroscience, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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- Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Pathology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Department of Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Epidemiology Research Program, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Cambridge Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre, Cambridge, UK
- Cambridge Breast Unit and NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, University of Cambridge NHS Foundation Hospitals, Cambridge, UK
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- Cancer Sciences Academic Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Comprehensive Cancer Center Erlangen-EMN, Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Genomic Medicine, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, University of Manchester, Central Manchester Foundation Trust, St. Mary's Hospital, Manchester, UK
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- Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Comprehensive Cancer Center Erlangen-EMN, Erlangen, Germany
- David Geffen School of Medicine, Department of Medicine Division of Hematology and Oncology, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, USA
- Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, The University of Edinburgh Medical School, Edinburgh, UK
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- Institute for Medical Biometrics and Epidemiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Clinical Cancer Registry, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Breast Surgery, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev, Denmark
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- Epidemiology Research Program, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Epidemiology Research Program, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
- Cancer Epidemiology & Intelligence Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
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- Fred A. Litwin Center for Cancer Genetics, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Surgery, Oulu University Hospital, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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- Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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- Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Comprehensive Cancer Center Erlangen-EMN, Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Molecular Genetics of Breast Cancer, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Biostatistics & Epidemiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA
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- Translational Cancer Research Area, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
- Imaging Center, Department of Clinical Pathology, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
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- Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Comprehensive Cancer Center Erlangen-EMN, Erlangen, Germany
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- Warwick Clinical Trials Unit, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
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- Family Cancer Clinic, The Netherlands Cancer Institute – Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Family Cancer Clinic, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, USA
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Molecular Genetics of Breast Cancer, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Translational Cancer Research Area, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
- Central Finland Health Care District, Jyväskylä Central Hospital, Jyväskylä, Finland
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- Prosserman Centre for Health Research, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada
- Division of Epidemiology, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Surgical Oncology, Family Cancer Clinic, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Cancer Genetics, Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital Radiumhospitalet, Oslo, Norway
- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Clinical Molecular Biology, Oslo University Hospital, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- VIB Center for Cancer Biology, VIB, Leuven, Belgium
- Laboratory for Translational Genetics, Department of Human Genetics, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention, M. Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center – Oncology Institute, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, USA
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- Translational Cancer Research Area, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
- Imaging Center, Department of Clinical Pathology, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
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- Unit of Medical Genetics, Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology, Fondazione IRCCS (Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico) Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori (INT), Milan, Italy
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- Department of Oncology – Pathology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
- National Center for Tumor Diseases, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Family Cancer Clinic, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Anatomical Pathology, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
- Cancer Epidemiology & Intelligence Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- Laboratory Medicine Program, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Helsinki University Hospital, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Helsinki University Hospital, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Leuven Multidisciplinary Breast Center, Department of Oncology, Leuven Cancer Institute, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Copenhagen General Population Study, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev, Denmark
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- Copenhagen General Population Study, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev, Denmark
- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Servicio de Cirugía General y Especialidades, Hospital Monte Naranco, Oviedo, Spain
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- IFOM, The FIRC (Italian Foundation for Cancer Research) Institute of Molecular Oncology, Milan, Italy
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
- Division of Cancer Medicine, Peter MacCallum Cancer Center, Melbourne, Australia
- Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
- Department of Medicine, St Vincent's Hospital, The University of Melbourne, Fitzroy, Australia
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- Laboratory of Cancer Genetics and Tumor Biology, Cancer and Translational Medicine Research Unit, Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Laboratory of Cancer Genetics and Tumor Biology, Northern Finland Laboratory Centre Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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- Unit of Molecular Bases of Genetic Risk and Genetic Testing, Department of Research, Fondazione IRCCS (Istituto Di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico) Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori (INT), Milan, Italy
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- Institute of Pathology, Staedtisches Klinikum Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Research Oncology, Guy's Hospital, King's College London, London, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Family Cancer Clinic, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Leuven Multidisciplinary Breast Center, Department of Oncology, Leuven Cancer Institute, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Pathology, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
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- Department of Surgery, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics and Oxford NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Pathology, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
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- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Division of Molecular Pathology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute – Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Leuven Multidisciplinary Breast Center, Department of Oncology, Leuven Cancer Institute, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Laboratory of Cancer Genetics and Tumor Biology, Cancer and Translational Medicine Research Unit, Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Laboratory of Cancer Genetics and Tumor Biology, Northern Finland Laboratory Centre Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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- Servicio de Oncología Médica, Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Genetics and Computational Biology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia
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- Gynaecology Research Unit, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
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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 and
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- Division of Molecular Pathology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute – Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Division of Psychosocial Research and Epidemiology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute – Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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Shackelford SA, del Junco DJ, Powell-Dunford N, Mazuchowski EL, Howard JT, Kotwal RS, Gurney J, Butler FK, Gross K, Stockinger ZT. Association of Prehospital Blood Product Transfusion During Medical Evacuation of Combat Casualties in Afghanistan With Acute and 30-Day Survival. JAMA 2017; 318:1581-1591. [PMID: 29067429 PMCID: PMC5818807 DOI: 10.1001/jama.2017.15097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 318] [Impact Index Per Article: 45.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2017] [Accepted: 09/15/2017] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
Abstract
IMPORTANCE Prehospital blood product transfusion in trauma care remains controversial due to poor-quality evidence and cost. Sequential expansion of blood transfusion capability after 2012 to deployed military medical evacuation (MEDEVAC) units enabled a concurrent cohort study to focus on the timing as well as the location of the initial transfusion. OBJECTIVE To examine the association of prehospital transfusion and time to initial transfusion with injury survival. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Retrospective cohort study of US military combat casualties in Afghanistan between April 1, 2012, and August 7, 2015. Eligible patients were rescued alive by MEDEVAC from point of injury with either (1) a traumatic limb amputation at or above the knee or elbow or (2) shock defined as a systolic blood pressure of less than 90 mm Hg or a heart rate greater than 120 beats per minute. EXPOSURES Initiation of prehospital transfusion and time from MEDEVAC rescue to first transfusion, regardless of location (ie, prior to or during hospitalization). Transfusion recipients were compared with nonrecipients (unexposed) for whom transfusion was delayed or not given. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES Mortality at 24 hours and 30 days after MEDEVAC rescue were coprimary outcomes. To balance injury severity, nonrecipients of prehospital transfusion were frequency matched to recipients by mechanism of injury, prehospital shock, severity of limb amputation, head injury, and torso hemorrhage. Cox regression was stratified by matched groups and also adjusted for age, injury year, transport team, tourniquet use, and time to MEDEVAC rescue. RESULTS Of 502 patients (median age, 25 years [interquartile range, 22 to 29 years]; 98% male), 3 of 55 prehospital transfusion recipients (5%) and 85 of 447 nonrecipients (19%) died within 24 hours of MEDEVAC rescue (between-group difference, -14% [95% CI, -21% to -6%]; P = .01). By day 30, 6 recipients (11%) and 102 nonrecipients (23%) died (between-group difference, -12% [95% CI, -21% to -2%]; P = .04). For the 386 patients without missing covariate data among the 400 patients within the matched groups, the adjusted hazard ratio for mortality associated with prehospital transfusion was 0.26 (95% CI, 0.08 to 0.84, P = .02) over 24 hours (3 deaths among 54 recipients vs 67 deaths among 332 matched nonrecipients) and 0.39 (95% CI, 0.16 to 0.92, P = .03) over 30 days (6 vs 76 deaths, respectively). Time to initial transfusion, regardless of location (prehospital or during hospitalization), was associated with reduced 24-hour mortality only up to 15 minutes after MEDEVAC rescue (median, 36 minutes after injury; adjusted hazard ratio, 0.17 [95% CI, 0.04 to 0.73], P = .02; there were 2 deaths among 62 recipients vs 68 deaths among 324 delayed transfusion recipients or nonrecipients). CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE Among medically evacuated US military combat causalities in Afghanistan, blood product transfusion prehospital or within minutes of injury was associated with greater 24-hour and 30-day survival than delayed transfusion or no transfusion. The findings support prehospital transfusion in this setting.
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- Stacy A. Shackelford
- Joint Trauma System, Defense Center of Excellence for Trauma, Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas
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- Joint Trauma System, Defense Center of Excellence for Trauma, Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio
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- Joint Trauma System, Defense Center of Excellence for Trauma, Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas
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- Joint Trauma System, Defense Center of Excellence for Trauma, Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas
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- Joint Trauma System, Defense Center of Excellence for Trauma, Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas
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- Joint Trauma System, Defense Center of Excellence for Trauma, Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas
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- Army Trauma Training Department, Miami, Florida
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- Joint Trauma System, Defense Center of Excellence for Trauma, Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas
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James FR, Jiminez-Linan M, Alsop J, Mack M, Song H, Brenton JD, Pharoah PDP, Ali HR. Association between tumour infiltrating lymphocytes, histotype and clinical outcome in epithelial ovarian cancer. BMC Cancer 2017; 17:657. [PMID: 28931370 PMCID: PMC5607562 DOI: 10.1186/s12885-017-3585-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2017] [Accepted: 08/22/2017] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND There is evidence that some ovarian tumours evoke an immune response, which can be assessed by tumour infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs). To facilitate adoption of TILs as a clinical biomarker, a standardised method for their H&E visual evaluation has been validated in breast cancer. METHODS We sought to investigate the prognostic significance of TILs in a study of 953 invasive epithelial ovarian cancer tumour samples, both primary and metastatic, from 707 patients from the prospective population-based SEARCH study. TILs were analysed using a standardised method based on H&E staining producing a percentage score for stromal and intratumoral compartments. We used Cox regression to estimate hazard ratios of the association between TILs and survival. RESULTS The extent of stromal and intra-tumoral TILs were correlated in the primary tumours (n = 679, Spearman's rank correlation = 0.60, P < 0.001) with a similar correlation in secondary tumours (n = 224, Spearman's rank correlation = 0.62, P < 0.001). There was a weak correlation between stromal TIL levels in primary and secondary tumour samples (Spearman's rank correlation = 0.29, P < 0.001) and intra-tumoral TIL levels in primary and secondary tumour samples (Spearman's rank correlation = 0.19, P = 0.0094). The extent of stromal TILs differed between histotypes (Pearson chi2 (12d.f.) 54.1, P < 0.0001) with higher levels of stromal infiltration in the high-grade serous and endometriod cases. A significant association was observed for higher intratumoral TIL levels and a favourable prognosis (HR 0.74 95% CI 0.55-1.00 p = 0.047). CONCLUSION This study is the largest collection of epithelial ovarian tumour samples evaluated for TILs. We have shown that stromal and intratumoral TIL levels are correlated and that their levels correlate with clinical variables such as tumour histological subtype. We have also shown that increased levels of both intratumoral and stromal TILs are associated with a better prognosis; however, this is only statistically significant for intratumoral TILs. This study suggests that a clinically useful immune prognostic indicator in epithelial ovarian cancer could be developed using this technique.
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- Fiona R. James
- Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Foundation NHS Trust, Lancashire, UK
- Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Oncology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Pathology, CRUK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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Buonomo OC, Caredda E, Portarena I, Vanni G, Orlandi A, Bagni C, Petrella G, Palombi L, Orsaria P. New insights into the metastatic behavior after breast cancer surgery, according to well-established clinicopathological variables and molecular subtypes. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0184680. [PMID: 28922402 PMCID: PMC5602519 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0184680] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2017] [Accepted: 08/29/2017] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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Despite advances in treatment, up to 30% of patients with early breast cancer (BC) experience distant disease relapse. However, a comprehensive understanding of tumor spread and site-specific recurrence patterns remains lacking. This retrospective case-control study included 103 consecutive patients with metastatic BC admitted to our institution (2000–2013). Cases were matched according to age, tumor biology, and clinicopathological features to 221 patients with non-metastatic BC (control group). The median follow-up period among the 324 eligible patients was 7.3 years. While relatively low values for sensitivity (71%) and specificity (56%) were found for axillary lymph node (ALN) involvement as an indicator of risk and pattern of distant relapse, nodal status remained the most powerful predictor of metastases (OR: 3.294; CL: 1.9–5.5). Rates of dissemination and metastatic efficiency differed according to molecular subtype. HER2-positive subtypes showed a stronger association with systemic spread (OR: 2.127; CL: 1.2–3.8) than other subgroups. Classification as Luminal or Non-Luminal showed an increased risk of lung and distant nodal recurrence, and a decreased risk in bone metastases in the Non-Luminal group (OR: 2.9, 3.345, and 0.2, respectively). Tumors with HER2 overexpression had a significantly high risk for distant relapse (OR: 2.127) compared with HER2-negative tumors and also showed higher central nervous system (CNS) and lung metastatic potential (OR: 5.6 and 2.65, respectively) and low risk of bone disease progression (OR: 0.294). Furthermore, we found significant associations between biological profiles and sites of recurrence. A new process of clinical/diagnostic staging, including molecular subtypes, could better predict the likelihood of distant relapses and their anatomical location. Recognition and appreciation of clinically distinct molecular subtypes may assist in evaluation of the probability of distant relapses and their sites. Our analysis provides new insights into management of metastatic disease behavior, to lead to an optimal disease-tailored approach and appropriate follow-up.
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- Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, Tor Vergata University Hospital, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Medical Oncology Unit, Tor Vergata University Hospital, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Surgery, Tor Vergata University Hospital, Rome, Italy
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- Anatomic Pathology, Department Biomedicine and Prevention, Tor Vergata University Hospital, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, Tor Vergata University Hospital, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, Tor Vergata University Hospital, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Surgery, Tor Vergata University Hospital, Rome, Italy
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Muranen TA, Blomqvist C, Dörk T, Jakubowska A, Heikkilä P, Fagerholm R, Greco D, Aittomäki K, Bojesen SE, Shah M, Dunning AM, Rhenius V, Hall P, Czene K, Brand JS, Darabi H, Chang-Claude J, Rudolph A, Nordestgaard BG, Couch FJ, Hart SN, Figueroa J, García-Closas M, Fasching PA, Beckmann MW, Li J, Liu J, Andrulis IL, Winqvist R, Pylkäs K, Mannermaa A, Kataja V, Lindblom A, Margolin S, Lubinski J, Dubrowinskaja N, Bolla MK, Dennis J, Michailidou K, Wang Q, Easton DF, Pharoah PDP, Schmidt MK, Nevanlinna H. Patient survival and tumor characteristics associated with CHEK2:p.I157T - findings from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium. Breast Cancer Res 2016; 18:98. [PMID: 27716369 PMCID: PMC5048645 DOI: 10.1186/s13058-016-0758-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2016] [Accepted: 09/15/2016] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND P.I157T is a CHEK2 missense mutation associated with a modest increase in breast cancer risk. Previously, another CHEK2 mutation, the protein truncating c.1100delC has been associated with poor prognosis of breast cancer patients. Here, we have investigated patient survival and characteristics of breast tumors of germ line p.I157T carriers. METHODS We included in the analyses 26,801 European female breast cancer patients from 15 studies participating in the Breast Cancer Association Consortium. We analyzed the association between p.I157T and the clinico-pathological breast cancer characteristics by comparing the p.I157T carrier tumors to non-carrier and c.1100delC carrier tumors. Similarly, we investigated the p.I157T associated risk of early death, breast cancer-associated death, distant metastasis, locoregional relapse and second breast cancer using Cox proportional hazards models. Additionally, we explored the p.I157T-associated genomic gene expression profile using data from breast tumors of 183 Finnish female breast cancer patients (ten p.I157T carriers) (GEO: GSE24450). Differential gene expression analysis was performed using a moderated t test. Functional enrichment was investigated using the DAVID functional annotation tool and gene set enrichment analysis (GSEA). The tumors were classified into molecular subtypes according to the St Gallen 2013 criteria and the PAM50 gene expression signature. RESULTS P.I157T was not associated with increased risk of early death, breast cancer-associated death or distant metastasis relapse, and there was a significant difference in prognosis associated with the two CHEK2 mutations, p.I157T and c.1100delC. Furthermore, p.I157T was associated with lobular histological type and clinico-pathological markers of good prognosis, such as ER and PR expression, low TP53 expression and low grade. Gene expression analysis suggested luminal A to be the most common subtype for p.I157T carriers and CDH1 (cadherin 1) target genes to be significantly enriched among genes, whose expression differed between p.I157T and non-carrier tumors. CONCLUSIONS Our analyses suggest that there are fundamental differences in breast tumors of CHEK2:p.I157T and c.1100delC carriers. The poor prognosis associated with c.1100delC cannot be generalized to other CHEK2 mutations.
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- Taru A. Muranen
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, P.O. Box 700, 00029 HUS Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Oncology, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
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- Gynaecology Research Unit, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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- Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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- Department of Pathology, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, P.O. Box 700, 00029 HUS Helsinki, Finland
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- Unit of Systems Toxicology, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
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- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Copenhagen General Population Study, Herlev Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev, Denmark
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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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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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev, Denmark
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN USA
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- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD USA
- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Comprehensive Cancer Center Erlangen-EMN, Erlangen, Germany
- Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA USA
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- Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Comprehensive Cancer Center Erlangen-EMN, Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Human Genetics Division, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON Canada
- Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON Canada
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- Laboratory of Cancer Genetics and Tumor Biology, Northern Finland Laboratory Centre NordLab, Oulu, Finland
- Laboratory of Cancer Genetics and Tumor Biology, Cancer and Translational Medicine Research Unit and Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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- Laboratory of Cancer Genetics and Tumor Biology, Northern Finland Laboratory Centre NordLab, Oulu, Finland
- Laboratory of Cancer Genetics and Tumor Biology, Cancer and Translational Medicine Research Unit and Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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- Cancer Center, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
- Imaging Center, Department of Clinical Pathology, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
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- Cancer Center, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
- Central Finland Hospital District, Jyväskylä Central Hospital, Jyväskylä, Finland
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Oncology - Pathology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Department of Electron Microscopy/Molecular Pathology, The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics, Nicosia, Cyprus
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Netherlands Cancer Institute, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, P.O. Box 700, 00029 HUS Helsinki, Finland
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Drooger JC, Akdeniz D, Pignol JP, Koppert LB, McCool D, Seynaeve CM, Hooning MJ, Jager A. Adjuvant radiotherapy for primary breast cancer in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers and risk of contralateral breast cancer with special attention to patients irradiated at younger age. Breast Cancer Res Treat 2016; 154:171-80. [PMID: 26467044 PMCID: PMC4621694 DOI: 10.1007/s10549-015-3597-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2015] [Accepted: 10/05/2015] [Indexed: 12/04/2022]
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The purpose of this study was to estimate the influence of adjuvant radiotherapy for primary breast cancer (BC) on the risk of contralateral BC (CBC) in BRCA1 or BRCA2(BRCA1/2) mutation carriers, with special attention to patients irradiated at age younger than 40 years. Additionally, tendencies in locoregional treatments and rates of contralateral risk-reducing mastectomy over time were explored. In this retrospective cohort study, 691 BRCA1/2-associated BC patients treated between 1980 and 2013 were followed from diagnosis until CBC or censoring event including ipsilateral BC recurrence, distant metastasis, contralateral risk-reducing mastectomy, other invasive cancer diagnosis, death, or loss to follow up. Hazard ratios (HR) for CBC associated with radiotherapy were estimated using Cox regression. Median follow-up time was 8.6 years [range 0.3–34.3 years]. No association between radiotherapy for primary BC and risk of CBC was found, neither in the total population (HR 0.82, 95 % CI 0.45–1.49) nor in the subgroup of patients younger than 40 years at primary diagnosis (HR 1.36, 95 % CI 0.60–3.09). During follow-up, the number of patients at risk decreased substantially since a large proportion of patients were censored after contralateral risk-reducing mastectomy or BC recurrence. Over the years, increasing preference for mastectomy without radiotherapy compared to breast-conserving surgery with radiotherapy was found ranging from less than 30 % in 1995 to almost 50 % after 2010. The rate of contralateral risk-reducing mastectomy increased over the years from less than 40 % in 1995 to more than 60 % after 2010. In this cohort of BRCA1/2-associated BC patients, no association between radiotherapy for primary BC and risk of CBC was observed in the total group, nor in the patients irradiated before the age of 40 years. The number of patients at risk after 10 and 15 years of follow-up, however, was too small to definitively exclude harmful effects of adjuvant radiotherapy.
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- Jan C. Drooger
- />Department of Medical Oncology, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, PO Box 5201, 3008 AE Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- />Department of Medical Oncology, Ikazia Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- />Department of Medical Oncology, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, PO Box 5201, 3008 AE Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- />Department of Radiation Oncology, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- />Department of Surgical Oncology, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- />Division of Molecular Pathology and Division of Psychosocial Research and Epidemiology, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- />Department of Medical Oncology, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, PO Box 5201, 3008 AE Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- />Department of Medical Oncology, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, PO Box 5201, 3008 AE Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- />Department of Medical Oncology, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, PO Box 5201, 3008 AE Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Johnson N, De Ieso P, Migliorini G, Orr N, Broderick P, Catovsky D, Matakidou A, Eisen T, Goldsmith C, Dudbridge F, Peto J, dos-Santos-Silva I, Ashworth A, Ross G, Houlston RS, Fletcher O. Cytochrome P450 Allele CYP3A7*1C Associates with Adverse Outcomes in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia, Breast, and Lung Cancer. Cancer Res 2016; 76:1485-1493. [PMID: 26964624 PMCID: PMC4795533 DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-15-1410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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CYP3A enzymes metabolize endogenous hormones and chemotherapeutic agents used to treat cancer, thereby potentially affecting drug effectiveness. Here, we refined the genetic basis underlying the functional effects of a CYP3A haplotype on urinary estrone glucuronide (E1G) levels and tested for an association between CYP3A genotype and outcome in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), breast, or lung cancers. The most significantly associated SNP was rs45446698, an SNP that tags the CYP3A7*1C allele; this SNP was associated with a 54% decrease in urinary E1G levels. Genotyping this SNP in 1,008 breast cancer, 1,128 lung cancer, and 347 CLL patients, we found that rs45446698 was associated with breast cancer mortality (HR, 1.74; P = 0.03), all-cause mortality in lung cancer patients (HR, 1.43; P = 0.009), and CLL progression (HR, 1.62; P = 0.03). We also found borderline evidence of a statistical interaction between the CYP3A7*1C allele, treatment of patients with a cytotoxic agent that is a CYP3A substrate, and clinical outcome (Pinteraction = 0.06). The CYP3A7*1C allele, which results in adult expression of the fetal CYP3A7 gene, is likely to be the functional allele influencing levels of circulating endogenous sex hormones and outcome in these various malignancies. Further studies confirming these associations and determining the mechanism by which CYP3A7*1C influences outcome are required. One possibility is that standard chemotherapy regimens that include CYP3A substrates may not be optimal for the approximately 8% of cancer patients who are CYP3A7*1C carriers.
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- Nichola Johnson
- Breast Cancer Now Toby Robins Research Centre, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK and Division of Breast Cancer Research, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- Breast Cancer Now Toby Robins Research Centre, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK and Division of Breast Cancer Research, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- Division of Molecular Pathology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Oncology, Cambridge University Hospitals National Health Service Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK
- Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
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- Imperial College, London, UK and The Harley Street Clinic, London, UK
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- Non-communicable Disease Epidemiology Department, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Non-communicable Disease Epidemiology Department, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Non-communicable Disease Epidemiology Department, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Breast Cancer Now Toby Robins Research Centre, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK and Division of Breast Cancer Research, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Fulham Road, London UK
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- Breast Cancer Now Toby Robins Research Centre, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK and Division of Breast Cancer Research, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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Luque-Fernandez MA, Zoega H, Valdimarsdottir U, Williams MA. Deconstructing the smoking-preeclampsia paradox through a counterfactual framework. Eur J Epidemiol 2016; 31:613-23. [PMID: 26975379 DOI: 10.1007/s10654-016-0139-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2015] [Accepted: 03/08/2016] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Although smoking during pregnancy may lead to many adverse outcomes, numerous studies have reported a paradoxical inverse association between maternal cigarette smoking during pregnancy and preeclampsia. Using a counterfactual framework we aimed to explore the structure of this paradox as being a consequence of selection bias. Using a case-control study nested in the Icelandic Birth Registry (1309 women), we show how this selection bias can be explored and corrected for. Cases were defined as any case of pregnancy induced hypertension or preeclampsia occurring after 20 weeks' gestation and controls as normotensive mothers who gave birth in the same year. First, we used directed acyclic graphs to illustrate the common bias structure. Second, we used classical logistic regression and mediation analytic methods for dichotomous outcomes to explore the structure of the bias. Lastly, we performed both deterministic and probabilistic sensitivity analysis to estimate the amount of bias due to an uncontrolled confounder and corrected for it. The biased effect of smoking was estimated to reduce the odds of preeclampsia by 28 % (OR 0.72, 95 %CI 0.52, 0.99) and after stratification by gestational age at delivery (<37 vs. ≥37 gestation weeks) by 75 % (OR 0.25, 95 %CI 0.10, 0.68). In a mediation analysis, the natural indirect effect showed and OR > 1, revealing the structure of the paradox. The bias-adjusted estimation of the smoking effect on preeclampsia showed an OR of 1.22 (95 %CI 0.41, 6.53). The smoking-preeclampsia paradox appears to be an example of (1) selection bias most likely caused by studying cases prevalent at birth rather than all incident cases from conception in a pregnancy cohort, (2) omitting important confounders associated with both smoking and preeclampsia (preventing the outcome to develop) and (3) controlling for a collider (gestation weeks at delivery). Future studies need to consider these aspects when studying and interpreting the association between smoking and pregnancy outcomes.
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- Miguel Angel Luque-Fernandez
- Department of Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology, Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK. .,Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
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- Faculty of Medicine, Center of Public Health Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Department of Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology, Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.,Faculty of Medicine, Center of Public Health Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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Berlowitz DJ, Howard ME, Fiore JF, Vander Hoorn S, O'Donoghue FJ, Westlake J, Smith A, Beer F, Mathers S, Talman P. Identifying who will benefit from non-invasive ventilation in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis/motor neurone disease in a clinical cohort. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2016; 87:280-6. [PMID: 25857659 DOI: 10.1136/jnnp-2014-310055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2014] [Accepted: 03/18/2015] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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BACKGROUND Respiratory failure is associated with significant morbidity and is the predominant cause of death in motor neurone disease/amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (MND/ALS). This study aimed to determine the effect of non-invasive ventilatory (NIV) support on survival and pulmonary function decline across MND/ALS phenotypes. METHODS Cohort recruited via a specialist, multidisciplinary clinic. Patients were categorised into four clinical phenotypes (ALS, flail arm, flail leg and primary lateral sclerosis) according to site of presenting symptom and the pattern of upper versus lower motor neurone involvement. NIV was initiated according to current consensus practice guidelines. RESULTS Between 1991 and 2011, 1198 patients diagnosed with ALS/MND were registered. 929 patients (77.5%) fulfilled the selection criteria and their data were analysed. Median tracheostomy free survival from symptom onset was 28 months in NIV-treated patients compared to 15 months in untreated (Univariate Cox regression HR=0.61 (0.51 to 0.73), p<0.001). The positive survival effect of NIV persisted when the model was adjusted for age, gender, riluzole and percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy use (HR=0.72 (0.60 to 0.88, p=0.001). In contrast with the only randomised controlled trial, NIV statistically significantly increased survival by 19 months in those with ALS-bulbar onset (Univariate HR=0.50 (0.36 to 0.70), multivariate HR=0.59 (0.41 to 0.83)). These data confirm that NIV improves survival in MND/ALS. The overall magnitude of benefit is 13 months and was largest in those with ALS-bulbar disease. Future research should explore the optimal timing of NIV initiation within phenotypes in order to optimise respiratory function, quality of life and survival.
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- David J Berlowitz
- Institute for Breathing and Sleep, Bowen Centre, Austin Hospital, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia
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- Institute for Breathing and Sleep, Bowen Centre, Austin Hospital, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia
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- Institute for Breathing and Sleep, Bowen Centre, Austin Hospital, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia
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- Statistical Consulting Centre, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Institute for Breathing and Sleep, Bowen Centre, Austin Hospital, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia
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- Institute for Breathing and Sleep, Bowen Centre, Austin Hospital, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia
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- Neurology Unit, Calvary Health Care, Bethlehem Hospital, Caulfield, Victoria, Australia
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- Institute for Breathing and Sleep, Bowen Centre, Austin Hospital, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia
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- Neurology Unit, Calvary Health Care, Bethlehem Hospital, Caulfield, Victoria, Australia
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- Neurology Unit, Calvary Health Care, Bethlehem Hospital, Caulfield, Victoria, Australia
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Sobral-Leite M, Wesseling J, Smit VTHBM, Nevanlinna H, van Miltenburg MH, Sanders J, Hofland I, Blows FM, Coulson P, Patrycja G, Schellens JHM, Fagerholm R, Heikkilä P, Aittomäki K, Blomqvist C, Provenzano E, Ali HR, Figueroa J, Sherman M, Lissowska J, Mannermaa A, Kataja V, Kosma VM, Hartikainen JM, Phillips KA, Couch FJ, Olson JE, Vachon C, Visscher D, Brenner H, Butterbach K, Arndt V, Holleczek B, Hooning MJ, Hollestelle A, Martens JWM, van Deurzen CHM, van de Water B, Broeks A, Chang-Claude J, Chenevix-Trench G, Easton DF, Pharoah PDP, García-Closas M, de Graauw M, Schmidt MK. Annexin A1 expression in a pooled breast cancer series: association with tumor subtypes and prognosis. BMC Med 2015; 13:156. [PMID: 26137966 PMCID: PMC4489114 DOI: 10.1186/s12916-015-0392-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2015] [Accepted: 06/04/2015] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Annexin A1 (ANXA1) is a protein related with the carcinogenesis process and metastasis formation in many tumors. However, little is known about the prognostic value of ANXA1 in breast cancer. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the association between ANXA1 expression, BRCA1/2 germline carriership, specific tumor subtypes and survival in breast cancer patients. METHODS Clinical-pathological information and follow-up data were collected from nine breast cancer studies from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium (BCAC) (n = 5,752) and from one study of familial breast cancer patients with BRCA1/2 mutations (n = 107). ANXA1 expression was scored based on the percentage of immunohistochemical staining in tumor cells. Survival analyses were performed using a multivariable Cox model. RESULTS The frequency of ANXA1 positive tumors was higher in familial breast cancer patients with BRCA1/2 mutations than in BCAC patients, with 48.6 % versus 12.4 %, respectively; P <0.0001. ANXA1 was also highly expressed in BCAC tumors that were poorly differentiated, triple negative, EGFR-CK5/6 positive or had developed in patients at a young age. In the first 5 years of follow-up, patients with ANXA1 positive tumors had a worse breast cancer-specific survival (BCSS) than ANXA1 negative (HRadj = 1.35; 95 % CI = 1.05-1.73), but the association weakened after 10 years (HRadj = 1.13; 95 % CI = 0.91-1.40). ANXA1 was a significant independent predictor of survival in HER2+ patients (10-years BCSS: HRadj = 1.70; 95 % CI = 1.17-2.45). CONCLUSIONS ANXA1 is overexpressed in familial breast cancer patients with BRCA1/2 mutations and correlated with poor prognosis features: triple negative and poorly differentiated tumors. ANXA1 might be a biomarker candidate for breast cancer survival prediction in high risk groups such as HER2+ cases.
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- Marcelo Sobral-Leite
- Division of Molecular Pathology, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
- Programa de Farmacologia, Instituto Nacional do Câncer (INCA), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
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- Division of Molecular Pathology, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
- Division of Diagnostic Oncology, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Pathology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
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- University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland.
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- Division of Molecular Pathology, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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- Core Facility Molecular Pathology and Biobanking, Division of Molecular Pathology, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK.
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- Division of Molecular Pathology, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
- Department of Pharmacoepidemiology & Clinical Pharmacology, Utrecht Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (UIPS), Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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- University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland.
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- University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
- Department of Pathology, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland.
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- University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
- Department of Clinical Genetics, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland.
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- University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
- Department of Oncology, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland.
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- Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
- Department of Histopathology, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK.
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- Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
- Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, USA.
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, USA.
- Division of Cancer Prevention, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, USA.
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Warsaw, Poland.
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- School of Medicine, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland.
- Cancer Center of Eastern Finland, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland.
- Imaging Center, Department of Clinical Pathology, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland.
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- Cancer Center, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland.
- Jyväskylä Central Hospital, Jyväskylä, Finland.
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- School of Medicine, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland.
- Cancer Center of Eastern Finland, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland.
- Imaging Center, Department of Clinical Pathology, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland.
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- School of Medicine, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland.
- Cancer Center of Eastern Finland, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland.
- Imaging Center, Department of Clinical Pathology, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland.
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- Division of Cancer Medicine, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia.
- Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
- Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic and Analytic Epidemiology, School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
- Department of Medicine, St Vincent's Hospital, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
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- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
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- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
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- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.
- German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.
- Division of Preventive Oncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.
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- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.
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- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
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- Division of Toxicology, Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands.
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- Core Facility Molecular Pathology and Biobanking, Division of Molecular Pathology, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, Unit of Genetic Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK.
- Breakthrough Breast Cancer Centre, London, UK.
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- Division of Toxicology, Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands.
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- Division of Molecular Pathology, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
- Division of Psychosocial Research and Epidemiology, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Plesmanlaan 121, 1066, CX, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Eccles BK, Copson ER, Cutress RI, Maishman T, Altman DG, Simmonds P, Gerty SM, Durcan L, Stanton L, Eccles DM. Family history and outcome of young patients with breast cancer in the UK (POSH study). Br J Surg 2015; 102:924-35. [PMID: 25989914 DOI: 10.1002/bjs.9816] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2014] [Revised: 11/03/2014] [Accepted: 03/03/2015] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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BACKGROUND Young patients presenting to surgical clinics with breast cancer are usually aware of their family history and frequently believe that a positive family history may adversely affect their prognosis. Tumour pathology and outcomes were compared in young British patients with breast cancer with and without a family history of breast cancer. METHODS Prospective Outcomes in Sporadic versus Hereditary breast cancer (POSH) is a large prospective cohort study of women aged less than 41 years with breast cancer diagnosed and treated in the UK using modern oncological management. Personal characteristics, tumour pathology, treatment and family history of breast/ovarian cancer were recorded. Follow-up data were collected annually. RESULTS Family history data were available for 2850 patients. No family history was reported by 65·9 per cent, and 34·1 per cent reported breast/ovarian cancer in at least one first- or second-degree relative. Patients with a family history were more likely to have grade 3 tumours (63·3 versus 58·9 per cent) and less likely to have human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-positive tumours (24·7 versus 28·8 per cent) than those with no family history. In multivariable analyses, there were no significant differences in distant disease-free intervals for patients with versus those without a family history, either for the whole cohort (hazard ratio (HR) 0·89, 95 per cent c.i. 0·76 to 1·03; P = 0·120) or when stratified by oestrogen receptor (ER) status (ER-negative: HR 0·80, 0·62 to 1·04, P = 0·101; ER-positive: HR 0·95, 0·78 to 1·15, P = 0·589). CONCLUSION Young British patients presenting to breast surgical clinics with a positive family history can be reassured that this is not a significant independent risk factor for breast cancer outcome.
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- B K Eccles
- Cancer Sciences Academic Unit and University of Southampton Clinical Trials Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton and University Hospital Southampton Foundation Trust, Southampton
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- Cancer Sciences Academic Unit and University of Southampton Clinical Trials Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton and University Hospital Southampton Foundation Trust, Southampton
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- Cancer Sciences Academic Unit and University of Southampton Clinical Trials Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton and University Hospital Southampton Foundation Trust, Southampton
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- Cancer Sciences Academic Unit and University of Southampton Clinical Trials Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton and University Hospital Southampton Foundation Trust, Southampton
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- Centre for Statistics in Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Cancer Sciences Academic Unit and University of Southampton Clinical Trials Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton and University Hospital Southampton Foundation Trust, Southampton
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- Cancer Sciences Academic Unit and University of Southampton Clinical Trials Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton and University Hospital Southampton Foundation Trust, Southampton
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- Cancer Sciences Academic Unit and University of Southampton Clinical Trials Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton and University Hospital Southampton Foundation Trust, Southampton
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- Cancer Sciences Academic Unit and University of Southampton Clinical Trials Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton and University Hospital Southampton Foundation Trust, Southampton
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- Cancer Sciences Academic Unit and University of Southampton Clinical Trials Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton and University Hospital Southampton Foundation Trust, Southampton
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Cybulski C, Kluźniak W, Huzarski T, Wokołorczyk D, Kashyap A, Jakubowska A, Szwiec M, Byrski T, Dębniak T, Górski B, Sopik V, Akbari MR, Sun P, Gronwald J, Narod SA, Lubiński J. Clinical outcomes in women with breast cancer and a PALB2 mutation: a prospective cohort analysis. Lancet Oncol 2015; 16:638-44. [PMID: 25959805 DOI: 10.1016/s1470-2045(15)70142-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 118] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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BACKGROUND Mutations in PALB2 predispose to breast cancer, but the effect on prognosis of carrying a PALB2 mutation has not been ascertained. We aimed to estimate the odds ratio for breast cancer in women with an inherited mutation in PALB2 and 10-year survival after breast cancer in patients who carry a PALB2 mutation. METHODS Between 1996 and 2012, patients with invasive breast cancer were recruited prospectively from 18 hospitals in Poland and genotyped for two deleterious mutations in PALB2 (509_510delGA and 172_175delTTGT). A control group of 4702 women without cancer was recruited for comparison. The primary endpoint was death from any cause, as determined by medical records from the Polish Ministry of the Interior and Administration. In patients with breast cancer, 10-year survival of carriers of a PALB2 mutation was calculated and compared with that of non-carriers. FINDINGS 17 900 women with breast cancer were invited to participate, of whom 12 529 were genotyped successfully. A PALB2 mutation was present in 116 (0·93%, 95% CI 0·76-1·09) of 12 529 patients and in ten (0·21%, 0·08-0·34) of 4702 controls (odds ratio 4·39, 95% CI 2·30-8·37; p<0·0001). 10-year survival for women with breast cancer and a PALB2 mutation was 48·0% (95% CI 36·5-63·2), compared with 74·7% (73·5-75·8) for patients with breast cancer without a mutation (adjusted hazard ratio for death 2·27, 95% CI 1·64-3·15; p<0·0001). INTERPRETATION Women with a PALB2 mutation face an increased risk of breast cancer and might be at a higher risk of death from breast cancer compared with non-carriers. Increased surveillance should be offered to unaffected women who carry a PALB2 mutation. FUNDING Polish National Science Centre.
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- Cezary Cybulski
- International Hereditary Cancer Center, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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- International Hereditary Cancer Center, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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- International Hereditary Cancer Center, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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- International Hereditary Cancer Center, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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- International Hereditary Cancer Center, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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- International Hereditary Cancer Center, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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- International Hereditary Cancer Center, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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- International Hereditary Cancer Center, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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- International Hereditary Cancer Center, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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- Women's College Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- International Hereditary Cancer Center, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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- Women's College Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada.
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- International Hereditary Cancer Center, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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van Verschuer VM, Hooning MJ, van Baare-Georgieva RD, Hollestelle A, Timmermans AM, Koppert LB, Verhoog LC, Martens JW, Seynaeve C, van Deurzen CH. Tumor-associated inflammation as a potential prognostic tool in BRCA1/2-associated breast cancer. Hum Pathol 2015; 46:182-90. [DOI: 10.1016/j.humpath.2014.10.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2014] [Revised: 10/07/2014] [Accepted: 10/21/2014] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Modelska A, Turro E, Russell R, Beaton J, Sbarrato T, Spriggs K, Miller J, Gräf S, Provenzano E, Blows F, Pharoah P, Caldas C, Le Quesne J. The malignant phenotype in breast cancer is driven by eIF4A1-mediated changes in the translational landscape. Cell Death Dis 2015; 6:e1603. [PMID: 25611378 PMCID: PMC4669741 DOI: 10.1038/cddis.2014.542] [Citation(s) in RCA: 113] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2014] [Revised: 10/29/2014] [Accepted: 11/03/2014] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Human mRNA DeXD/H-box helicases are ubiquitous molecular motors that are required for the majority of cellular processes that involve RNA metabolism. One of the most abundant is eIF4A, which is required during the initiation phase of protein synthesis to unwind regions of highly structured mRNA that would otherwise impede the scanning ribosome. Dysregulation of protein synthesis is associated with tumorigenesis, but little is known about the detailed relationships between RNA helicase function and the malignant phenotype in solid malignancies. Therefore, immunohistochemical analysis was performed on over 3000 breast tumors to investigate the relationship among expression of eIF4A1, the helicase-modulating proteins eIF4B, eIF4E and PDCD4, and clinical outcome. We found eIF4A1, eIF4B and eIF4E to be independent predictors of poor outcome in ER-negative disease, while in contrast, the eIF4A1 inhibitor PDCD4 was related to improved outcome in ER-positive breast cancer. Consistent with these data, modulation of eIF4A1, eIF4B and PCDC4 expression in cultured MCF7 cells all restricted breast cancer cell growth and cycling. The eIF4A1-dependent translatome of MCF7 cells was defined by polysome profiling, and was shown to be highly enriched for several classes of oncogenic genes, including G-protein constituents, cyclins and protein kinases, and for mRNAs with G/C-rich 5'UTRs with potential to form G-quadruplexes and with 3'UTRs containing microRNA target sites. Overall, our data show that dysregulation of mRNA unwinding contributes to the malignant phenotype in breast cancer via preferential translation of a class of genes involved in pro-oncogenic signaling at numerous levels. Furthermore, immunohistochemical tests are promising biomarkers for tumors sensitive to anti-helicase therapies.
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- A Modelska
- Department of Oncology and Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge, Li Ka Shing Centre, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0RE, UK
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- Department of Oncology and Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge, Li Ka Shing Centre, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0RE, UK
- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, NHS Blood and Transplant, Long Road, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK
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- Department of Oncology and Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge, Li Ka Shing Centre, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0RE, UK
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- Department of Oncology and Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge, Li Ka Shing Centre, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0RE, UK
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- Medical Research Council Toxicology Unit, Lancaster Road, Leicester LE1 9HN, UK
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- School of Pharmacy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK
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- Department of Oncology and Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge, Li Ka Shing Centre, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0RE, UK
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- Department of Oncology and Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge, Li Ka Shing Centre, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0RE, UK
- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, NHS Blood and Transplant, Long Road, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK
- Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
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- Cambridge Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre (ECMR) and NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
- Cambridge Breast Unit and Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
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- Strangeways Research Institute, 2 Worts' Causeway, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK
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- Cambridge Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre (ECMR) and NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
- Strangeways Research Institute, 2 Worts' Causeway, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK
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- Department of Oncology and Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge, Li Ka Shing Centre, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0RE, UK
- Cambridge Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre (ECMR) and NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
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- Department of Oncology and Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge, Li Ka Shing Centre, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0RE, UK
- Medical Research Council Toxicology Unit, Lancaster Road, Leicester LE1 9HN, UK
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Copson ER, Cutress RI, Maishman T, Eccles BK, Gerty S, Stanton L, Altman DG, Durcan L, Wong C, Simmonds PD, Jones L, Eccles DM. Obesity and the outcome of young breast cancer patients in the UK: the POSH study. Ann Oncol 2015; 26:101-112. [PMID: 25361993 DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdu509] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/08/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Obese breast cancer patients have a poorer prognosis than non-obese patients. We examined data from a large prospective cohort study to explore the associations of obesity with tumour pathology, treatment and outcome in young British breast cancer patients receiving modern oncological treatments. PATIENTS AND METHODS A total of 2956 patients aged ≤40 at breast cancer diagnosis were recruited from 126 UK hospitals from 2001 to 2007. Height and weight were measured at registration. Tumour pathology and treatment details were collected. Follow-up data were collected at 6, 12 months, and annually. RESULTS A total of 2843 eligible patients (96.2%) had a body mass index (BMI) recorded: 1526 (53.7%) were under/healthy-weight (U/H, BMI <25 kg/m(2)), 784 (27.6%) were overweight (ov, BMI ≥25 to <30), and 533 (18.7%) were obese (ob, BMI ≥30). The median tumour size was significantly higher in obese and overweight patients than U/H patients (Ob 26 mm versus U/H 20 mm, P < 0.001; Ov 24 mm versus U/H 20 mm, P < 0.001). Obese and overweight patients had significantly more grade 3 tumours (63.9% versus 59.0%, P = 0.048; Ov 63.6% versus U/H 59.0% P = 0.034) and node-positive tumours (Ob 54.6% versus U/H 49.0%, P = 0.027; Ov 54.2% versus U/H 49%, P = 0.019) than U/H patients. Obese patients had more ER/PR/HER2-negative tumours than healthy-weight patients (25.0% versus 18.3%, P = 0.001). Eight-year overall survival (OS) and distant disease-free interval (DDFI) were significantly lower in obese patients than healthy-weight patients [OS: hazard ratio (HR) 1.65, P < 0.001; DDFI: HR 1.44, P < 0.001]. Multivariable analyses adjusting for tumour grade, size, nodal, and HER2 status indicated that obesity was a significant independent predictor of OS and DDFI in patients with ER-positive disease. CONCLUSIONS Young obese breast cancer patients present with adverse tumour characteristics. Despite adjustment for this, obesity still independently predicts DDFI and OS.
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- E R Copson
- Cancer Sciences Academic Unit and University of Southampton Clinical Trials Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton and University Hospital Southampton Foundation Trust, Tremona Road, Southampton.
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- Cancer Sciences Academic Unit and University of Southampton Clinical Trials Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton and University Hospital Southampton Foundation Trust, Tremona Road, Southampton
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- Cancer Sciences Academic Unit and University of Southampton Clinical Trials Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton and University Hospital Southampton Foundation Trust, Tremona Road, Southampton
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- Cancer Sciences Academic Unit and University of Southampton Clinical Trials Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton and University Hospital Southampton Foundation Trust, Tremona Road, Southampton
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- Cancer Sciences Academic Unit and University of Southampton Clinical Trials Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton and University Hospital Southampton Foundation Trust, Tremona Road, Southampton
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- Cancer Sciences Academic Unit and University of Southampton Clinical Trials Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton and University Hospital Southampton Foundation Trust, Tremona Road, Southampton
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- Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Wolfson College Annexe, Oxford
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- Cancer Sciences Academic Unit and University of Southampton Clinical Trials Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton and University Hospital Southampton Foundation Trust, Tremona Road, Southampton
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- Cancer Sciences Academic Unit and University of Southampton Clinical Trials Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton and University Hospital Southampton Foundation Trust, Tremona Road, Southampton
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- Cancer Sciences Academic Unit and University of Southampton Clinical Trials Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton and University Hospital Southampton Foundation Trust, Tremona Road, Southampton
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- Tumour Biology Department, Institute of Cancer, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Charterhouse Square, London, UK
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- Cancer Sciences Academic Unit and University of Southampton Clinical Trials Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton and University Hospital Southampton Foundation Trust, Tremona Road, Southampton
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Crump C, Ioannidis JPA, Sundquist K, Winkleby MA, Sundquist J. Mortality in persons with mental disorders is substantially overestimated using inpatient psychiatric diagnoses. J Psychiatr Res 2013; 47:1298-303. [PMID: 23806577 PMCID: PMC3746500 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2013.05.034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2013] [Revised: 04/27/2013] [Accepted: 05/31/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Mental disorders are associated with premature mortality, and the magnitudes of risk have commonly been estimated using hospital data. However, psychiatric patients who are hospitalized have more severe illness and do not adequately represent mental disorders in the general population. We conducted a national cohort study using outpatient and inpatient diagnoses for the entire Swedish adult population (N = 7,253,516) to examine the extent to which mortality risks are overestimated using inpatient diagnoses only. Outcomes were all-cause and suicide mortality during 8 years of follow-up (2001-2008). There were 377,339 (5.2%) persons with any inpatient psychiatric diagnosis, vs. 680,596 (9.4%) with any inpatient or outpatient diagnosis, hence 44.6% of diagnoses were missed using inpatient data only. When including and accounting for prevalent psychiatric cases, all-cause mortality risk among persons with any mental disorder was overestimated by 15.3% using only inpatient diagnoses (adjusted hazard ratio [aHR], 5.89; 95% CI, 5.85-5.92) vs. both inpatient and outpatient diagnoses (aHR, 5.11; 95% CI, 5.08-5.14). Suicide risk was overestimated by 18.5% (aHRs, 23.91 vs. 20.18), but this varied widely by specific disorders, from 4.4% for substance use to 49.1% for anxiety disorders. The sole use of inpatient diagnoses resulted in even greater overestimation of all-cause or suicide mortality risks when prevalent cases were unidentified (~20-30%) or excluded (~25-40%). However, different methods for handling prevalent cases resulted in only modest variation in risk estimates when using both inpatient and outpatient diagnoses. These findings have important implications for the interpretation of hospital-based studies and the design of future studies.
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- Casey Crump
- Stanford University, Department of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA 94304-1426, USA.
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- Stanford University, Stanford Prevention Research Center, Medical School Office Building, 251 Campus Drive, Room X306, Stanford, California USA 94305-5411
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- Lund University, Center for Primary Health Care Research, Clinical Research Centre (CRC), building 28, floor 11, Jan Waldenströms gata 35, Skåne University Hospital, SE-205 02 Malmö, Sweden
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- Stanford University, Stanford Prevention Research Center, Medical School Office Building, 251 Campus Drive, Room X318, Stanford, California USA 94305-5411
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- Lund University, Center for Primary Health Care Research, Clinical Research Centre (CRC), building 28, floor 11, Jan Waldenströms gata 35, Skåne University Hospital, SE-205 02 Malmö, Sweden
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Sudenga SL, Wiener HW, Shendre A, Wilson CM, Tang J, Shrestha S. Variants in interleukin family of cytokines genes influence clearance of high risk HPV in HIV-1 coinfected African-American adolescents. Hum Immunol 2013; 74:1696-700. [PMID: 23973891 DOI: 10.1016/j.humimm.2013.08.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2013] [Revised: 06/19/2013] [Accepted: 08/10/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Our work aimed to examine the potential influence of variants in interleukin/interleukin receptors genes on high-risk (HR-HPV) HPV clearance. Clearance of genital HR-HPV infection was evaluated for 134 HIV-1 seropositive African-American female adolescents from the Reaching for Excellence in Adolescent Care and Health (REACH) cohort. Genotyping targeted 225 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) within the exons, 5' untranslated region (UTR) and 3' UTR sequences of 27 immune-related candidate genes encoding interleukin family of cytokines. Cox proportional hazard models were used to determine the association of type-specific HPV clearance adjusting for time-varying CD4+ T-cell count and low-risk (LR-HPV) HPV co-infections. HR-HPV clearance rates were significantly (p < 0.001) associated with five SNPs (rs228942, rs419598, rs315950, rs7737000, and rs9292618) mapped to coding and regulatory regions in three genes (IL2RB, IL1RN, and IL7R). These data suggest that the analyzed genetic variants in interleukin family of cytokines modulate HR-HPV clearance in HIV-1 seropositive African-Americans that warrants replication.
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- Staci L Sudenga
- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States
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Copson E, Eccles B, Maishman T, Gerty S, Stanton L, Cutress RI, Altman DG, Durcan L, Simmonds P, Lawrence G, Jones L, Bliss J, Eccles D. Prospective observational study of breast cancer treatment outcomes for UK women aged 18-40 years at diagnosis: the POSH study. J Natl Cancer Inst 2013; 105:978-88. [PMID: 23723422 DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djt134] [Citation(s) in RCA: 127] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Breast cancer at a young age is associated with poor prognosis. The Prospective Study of Outcomes in Sporadic and Hereditary Breast Cancer (POSH) was designed to investigate factors affecting prognosis in this patient group. METHODS Between 2000 and 2008, 2956 patients aged 40 years or younger were recruited to a UK multicenter prospective observational cohort study (POSH). Details of tumor pathology, disease stage, treatment received, and outcome were recorded. Overall survival (OS) and distant disease-free interval (DDFI) were assessed using Kaplan-Meier curves. All statistical tests were two-sided. RESULTS Median age of patients was 36 years. Median tumor diameter was 22 mm, and 50% of patients had positive lymph nodes; 59% of tumors were grade 3, 33.7% were estrogen receptor (ER) negative, and 24% were human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) positive. Five-year OS was higher for patients with ER-positive than ER-negative tumors (85.0%, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 83.2% to 86.7% vs 75.7%, 95% CI = 72.8% to 78.4%; P < .001), but by eight years, survival was almost equal. The eight-year OS of patients with ER-positive tumors was similar to that of patients with ER-negative tumors in both HER2-positive and HER2-negative subgroups. The flexible parametric survival model for OS shows that the risk of death increases steadily over time for patients with ER-positive tumors in contrast to patients with ER-negative tumors, where risk of death peaked at two years. CONCLUSIONS These results confirm the increased frequency of ER-negative tumors and early relapse in young patients and also demonstrate the equally poor longer-term outlook of young patients who have ER-positive tumors with HER2-negative or -positive disease.
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- Ellen Copson
- Cancer Sciences Academic Unit and University of Southampton Clinical Trials Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton and University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, United Kingdom
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Weischer M, Nordestgaard BG, Pharoah P, Bolla MK, Nevanlinna H, Van't Veer LJ, Garcia-Closas M, Hopper JL, Hall P, Andrulis IL, Devilee P, Fasching PA, Anton-Culver H, Lambrechts D, Hooning M, Cox A, Giles GG, Burwinkel B, Lindblom A, Couch FJ, Mannermaa A, Grenaker Alnæs G, John EM, Dörk T, Flyger H, Dunning AM, Wang Q, Muranen TA, van Hien R, Figueroa J, Southey MC, Czene K, Knight JA, Tollenaar RAEM, Beckmann MW, Ziogas A, Christiaens MR, Collée JM, Reed MWR, Severi G, Marme F, Margolin S, Olson JE, Kosma VM, Kristensen VN, Miron A, Bogdanova N, Shah M, Blomqvist C, Broeks A, Sherman M, Phillips KA, Li J, Liu J, Glendon G, Seynaeve C, Ekici AB, Leunen K, Kriege M, Cross SS, Baglietto L, Sohn C, Wang X, Kataja V, Børresen-Dale AL, Meyer A, Easton DF, Schmidt MK, Bojesen SE. CHEK2*1100delC heterozygosity in women with breast cancer associated with early death, breast cancer-specific death, and increased risk of a second breast cancer. J Clin Oncol 2012; 30:4308-16. [PMID: 23109706 DOI: 10.1200/jco.2012.42.7336] [Citation(s) in RCA: 135] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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PURPOSE We tested the hypotheses that CHEK2*1100delC heterozygosity is associated with increased risk of early death, breast cancer-specific death, and risk of a second breast cancer in women with a first breast cancer. PATIENTS AND METHODS From 22 studies participating in the Breast Cancer Association Consortium, 25,571 white women with invasive breast cancer were genotyped for CHEK2*1100delC and observed for up to 20 years (median, 6.6 years). We examined risk of early death and breast cancer-specific death by estrogen receptor status and risk of a second breast cancer after a first breast cancer in prospective studies. RESULTS CHEK2*1100delC heterozygosity was found in 459 patients (1.8%). In women with estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer, multifactorially adjusted hazard ratios for heterozygotes versus noncarriers were 1.43 (95% CI, 1.12 to 1.82; log-rank P = .004) for early death and 1.63 (95% CI, 1.24 to 2.15; log-rank P < .001) for breast cancer-specific death. In all women, hazard ratio for a second breast cancer was 2.77 (95% CI, 2.00 to 3.83; log-rank P < .001) increasing to 3.52 (95% CI, 2.35 to 5.27; log-rank P < .001) in women with estrogen receptor-positive first breast cancer only. CONCLUSION Among women with estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer, CHEK2*1100delC heterozygosity was associated with a 1.4-fold risk of early death, a 1.6-fold risk of breast cancer-specific death, and a 3.5-fold risk of a second breast cancer. This is one of the few examples of a genetic factor that influences long-term prognosis being documented in an extensive series of women with breast cancer.
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Searle CJ, Brock IW, Cross SS, Balasubramanian SP, Reed MW, Cox A. A BCL2 promoter polymorphism rs2279115 is not associated with BCL2 protein expression or patient survival in breast cancer patients. SPRINGERPLUS 2012; 1:38. [PMID: 23961365 PMCID: PMC3725909 DOI: 10.1186/2193-1801-1-38] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2012] [Accepted: 09/17/2012] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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The B-cell CLL/lymphoma 2 (BCL2) gene family encodes pro- and anti-apoptotic proteins that are critical regulators of programmed cell death. Higher levels of BCL2 expression in breast tumours have been shown to be an independent prognostic factor for improved survival from breast cancer. The promoter single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) rs2279115 has been associated with both BCL2 expression and patient survival. The aim of this study was to attempt to replicate these observations in a cohort of 1015 UK women with breast cancer, and to compare genotype frequencies in cases and controls. In this study, 1015 breast cancer cases and 1034 control subjects were genotyped for the rs2279115 SNP by 5’ nuclease PCR. Paraffin embedded tumour tissue for 342 case subjects was assembled into tissue microarrays, and the level of expression of BCL2 was established by immunohistochemistry. Kaplan Meier survival curves and Cox Proportional Hazards models were used to examine the effect of genotype on patient survival. The effect of SNP genotype on tumour BCL2 protein levels and breast cancer susceptibility was assessed by logistic regression. In this study higher BCL2 expression was significantly associated with improved survival from breast cancer (p = 0.015), in keeping with previous reports. The SNP rs2279115 was not found to be associated with tumour expression of BCL2, (p = 0.77), and neither was it associated with case/control status (p = 0.25). There was no significant association between the SNP and overall survival (p = 0.75). In conclusion, we found that higher tumour BCL2 expression is associated with improved survival from breast cancer, in keeping with previous studies. However, in contrast to a previous report, the promoter SNP rs2279115 was not associated with BCL2 expression or overall survival from breast cancer.
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- Claire J Searle
- Department of Oncology, CR-UK/YCR Sheffield Cancer Research Centre, University of Sheffield Medical School, Beech Hill Road, Sheffield, UK ; Department of Clinical Genetics, Chapel Allerton Hospital, Chapeltown Road, Leeds, UK
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Willis JA, Olson SH, Orlow I, Mukherjee S, McWilliams RR, Kurtz RC, Klein RJ. A replication study and genome-wide scan of single-nucleotide polymorphisms associated with pancreatic cancer risk and overall survival. Clin Cancer Res 2012; 18:3942-51. [PMID: 22665904 DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-11-2856] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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PURPOSE To explore the effects of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) on pancreatic cancer risk and overall survival (OS). EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN The germ line DNA of 531 pancreatic cancer cases and 305 healthy controls from a hospital-based study was genotyped at SNPs previously reported to be associated with pancreatic cancer risk or clinical outcome. We analyzed putative risk SNPs for replication of their reported effects on risk and tested for novel effects on OS. Similarly, we analyzed putative survival-associated SNPs for replication of their reported effects on OS and tested for novel effects on risk. Finally, we conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of OS using a subset of 252 cases, with two subsequent validation sets of 261 and 572 patients, respectively. RESULTS Among seven risk SNPs analyzed, two (rs505922 and rs9543325) were associated with risk (P < 0.05). Among 24 survival-associated SNPs analyzed, one (rs9350) was associated with OS (P < 0.05). No putative risk SNPs or putative survival-associated SNPs were found to be associated with OS or risk, respectively. Furthermore, our GWAS identified a novel SNP [rs1482426, combined stage I and II, P = 1.7 × 10(-6), per-allele HR, 1.74; 95% confidence interval (CI), 1.38-2.18] to be putatively associated with OS. CONCLUSIONS The effects of SNPs on pancreatic cancer risk and OS were replicated in our study, although further work is necessary to understand the functional mechanisms underlying these effects. More importantly, the putative association with OS identified by GWAS suggests that GWAS may be useful in identifying SNPs associated with clinical outcome in pancreatic cancer.
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- Program in Cancer Biology and Genetics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA
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Quesne JL, Jones J, Warren J, Dawson SJ, Ali HR, Bardwell H, Blows F, Pharoah P, Caldas C. Biological and prognostic associations of miR-205 and let-7b in breast cancer revealed by in situ hybridization analysis of micro-RNA expression in arrays of archival tumour tissue. J Pathol 2012; 227:306-14. [PMID: 22294324 DOI: 10.1002/path.3983] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2011] [Revised: 12/19/2011] [Accepted: 12/20/2011] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Micro-RNAs (miRNAs) are frequently dysregulated in a range of human malignancies, many have been shown to act either as tumour supressors or oncogenes and several have been implicated in breast cancer. However, breast cancer is a diverse disease and little is known about the relationships between miRNA expression, clinical outcome and tumour subtype. We used locked nucleic acid probe in situ hybridization (LNA-ISH) to visualize, in tissue micro-arrays (TMAs) of 2919 formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) archival breast tumours, the expression of two key miRNAs that are frequently lost in a range of solid malignancies, let-7b and miR-205. These miRNAs were also quantified by quantitative reverse transcription PCR in cores of FFPE tissue from 40 of these cases, demonstrating that LNA-ISH is semi-quantitative. The tumours in the TMAs were assigned to subtypes based on their immunohistochemical (IHC) staining with ER, PR, HER2, CK5/6 and EGFR. let-7b expression was shown to be associated with luminal tumours and to have an independent significant positive prognostic value in this group. miR-205 is associated with tumours of ductal morphology and is of significant positive prognostic value within these tumours. We propose that the expression of miR-205 may contribute to ductal tumour morphology.
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- John Le Quesne
- Cancer Research UK, Cambridge Research Institute and Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, UK.
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Ali HR, Dawson SJ, Blows FM, Provenzano E, Pharoah PD, Caldas C. Aurora kinase A outperforms Ki67 as a prognostic marker in ER-positive breast cancer. Br J Cancer 2012; 106:1798-806. [PMID: 22538974 PMCID: PMC3365239 DOI: 10.1038/bjc.2012.167] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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Background: Proliferation has emerged as a major prognostic factor in luminal breast cancer. The immunohistochemical (IHC) proliferation marker Ki67 has been most extensively investigated but has not gained widespread clinical acceptance. Methods: We have conducted a head-to-head comparison of a panel of proliferation markers, including Ki67. Our aim was to establish the marker of the greatest prognostic utility. Tumour samples from 3093 women with breast cancer were constructed as tissue microarrays. We used IHC to detect expression of mini-chromosome maintenance protein 2, Ki67, aurora kinase A (AURKA), polo-like kinase 1, geminin and phospho-histone H3. We used a Cox proportional-hazards model to investigate the association with 10-year breast cancer-specific survival (BCSS). Missing values were resolved using multiple imputation. Results: The prognostic significance of proliferation was limited to oestrogen receptor (ER)-positive breast cancer. Aurora kinase A emerged as the marker of the greatest prognostic significance in a multivariate model adjusted for the standard clinical and molecular covariates (hazard ratio 1.3; 95% confidence interval 1.1–1.5; P=0.005), outperforming all other markers including Ki67. Conclusion: Aurora kinase A outperforms other proliferation markers as an independent predictor of BCSS in ER-positive breast cancer. It has the potential for use in routine clinical practice.
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- H R Ali
- Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 9RN, UK.
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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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Davies JR, Randerson-Moor J, Kukalizch K, Harland M, Kumar R, Madhusudan S, Nagore E, Hansson J, Höiom V, Ghiorzo P, Gruis NA, Kanetsky PA, Wendt J, Pjanova D, Puig S, Saiag P, Schadendorf D, Soufir N, Okamoto I, Affleck P, García-Casado Z, Ogbah Z, Ozola A, Queirolo P, Sucker A, Barrett JH, van Doorn R, Bishop DT, Newton-Bishop J. Inherited variants in the MC1R gene and survival from cutaneous melanoma: a BioGenoMEL study. Pigment Cell Melanoma Res 2012; 25:384-94. [PMID: 22325793 PMCID: PMC3490389 DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-148x.2012.00982.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Inherited MC1R variants modulate MITF transcription factor signaling, which in turn affects tumor cell proliferation, apoptosis, and DNA repair. The aim of this BioGenoMEL collaborative study in 10 melanoma cohorts was to test the hypothesis that inherited variants thereby moderate survival expectation. A survival analysis in the largest cohort (Leeds) was carried out adjusting for factors known to impact on survival. The results were then compared with data from nine smaller cohorts. The absence of any consensus MC1R alleles was associated with a significantly lower risk of death in the Leeds set (HR, 0.64; 95% CI, 0.46–0.89) and overall in the 10 data sets (HR, 0.78; 95% CI, 0.65–0.94) with some support from the nine smaller data sets considered together (HR, 0.83; 95% CI, 0.67–1.04). The data are suggestive of a survival benefit for inherited MC1R variants in melanoma patients.
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- John R Davies
- Section of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
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Ali HR, Dawson SJ, Blows FM, Provenzano E, Pharoah PD, Caldas C. Cancer stem cell markers in breast cancer: pathological, clinical and prognostic significance. Breast Cancer Res 2011; 13:R118. [PMID: 22112299 PMCID: PMC3326560 DOI: 10.1186/bcr3061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2011] [Revised: 11/21/2011] [Accepted: 11/23/2011] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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INTRODUCTION The cancer stem cell (CSC) hypothesis states that tumours consist of a cellular hierarchy with CSCs at the apex driving tumour recurrence and metastasis. Hence, CSCs are potentially of profound clinical importance. We set out to establish the clinical relevance of breast CSC markers by profiling a large cohort of breast tumours in tissue microarrays (TMAs) using immunohistochemistry (IHC). METHODS We included 4, 125 patients enrolled in the SEARCH population-based study with tumours represented in TMAs and classified into molecular subtype according to a validated IHC-based five-marker scheme. IHC was used to detect CD44/CD24, ALDH1A1, aldehyde dehydrogenase family 1 member A3 (ALDH1A3) and integrin alpha-6 (ITGA6). A 'Total CSC' score representing expression of all four CSC markers was also investigated. Association with breast cancer specific survival (BCSS) at 10 years was assessed using a Cox proportional-hazards model. This study was complied with REMARK criteria. RESULTS In ER negative cases, multivariate analysis showed that ITGA6 was an independent prognostic factor with a time-dependent effect restricted to the first two years of follow-up (hazard ratio (HR) for 0 to 2 years follow-up, 2.4; 95% confidence interval (95% CI), 1.2 to 4.8; P = 0.009). The composite 'Total CSC' score carried independent prognostic significance in ER negative cases for the first four years of follow-up (HR for 0 to 4 years follow-up, 1.3; 95% CI, 1.1 to 1.6; P = 0.006). CONCLUSIONS Breast CSC markers do not identify identical subpopulations in primary tumours. Both ITGA6 and a composite Total CSC score show independent prognostic significance in ER negative disease. The use of multiple markers to identify tumours enriched for CSCs has the greatest prognostic value. In the absence of more specific markers, we propose that the effective translation of the CSC hypothesis into patient benefit will necessitate the use of a panel of markers to robustly identify tumours enriched for CSCs.
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- Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 9RN, UK.
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Ali HR, Dawson SJ, Blows FM, Provenzano E, Leung S, Nielsen T, Pharoah PD, Caldas C. A Ki67/BCL2 index based on immunohistochemistry is highly prognostic in ER-positive breast cancer. J Pathol 2011; 226:97-107. [DOI: 10.1002/path.2976] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2011] [Revised: 07/08/2011] [Accepted: 07/19/2011] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Lin WY, Camp NJ, Cannon-Albright LA, Allen-Brady K, Balasubramanian S, Reed MW, Hopper JL, Apicella C, Giles GG, Southey MC, Milne RL, Perez JI, Rodríguez PM, Benítez J, Grundmann M, Dubrowinskaja N, Park-Simon TW, Dörk T, Garcia-Closas M, Figueroa J, Sherman M, Lissowska J, Easton DF, Dunning AM, Rajaraman P, Sigurdson AJ, Doody MM, Linet MS, Pharoah PD, Schmidt MK, Cox A. A role for XRCC2 gene polymorphisms in breast cancer risk and survival. J Med Genet 2011; 48:477-84. [PMID: 21632523 PMCID: PMC3932658 DOI: 10.1136/jmedgenet-2011-100018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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BACKGROUND The XRCC2 gene is a key mediator in the homologous recombination repair of DNA double strand breaks. It is hypothesised that inherited variants in the XRCC2 gene might also affect susceptibility to, and survival from, breast cancer. METHODS The study genotyped 12 XRCC2 tagging single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in 1131 breast cancer cases and 1148 controls from the Sheffield Breast Cancer Study (SBCS), and examined their associations with breast cancer risk and survival by estimating ORs and HRs, and their corresponding 95% CIs. Positive findings were further investigated in 860 cases and 869 controls from the Utah Breast Cancer Study (UBCS) and jointly analysed together with available published data for breast cancer risk. The survival findings were further confirmed in studies (8074 cases) from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium (BCAC). RESULTS The most significant association with breast cancer risk in the SBCS dataset was the XRCC2 rs3218408 SNP (recessive model p=2.3×10(-4), minor allele frequency (MAF)=0.23). This SNP yielded an OR(rec) of 1.64 (95% CI 1.25 to 2.16) in a two-site analysis of SBCS and UBCS, and a meta-OR(rec) of 1.33 (95% CI 1.12 to 1.57) when all published data were included. This SNP may mark a rare risk haplotype carried by two in 1000 of the control population. Furthermore, the XRCC2 coding R188H SNP (rs3218536, MAF=0.08) was significantly associated with poor survival, with an increased per-allele HR of 1.58 (95% CI 1.01 to 2.49) in a multivariate analysis. This effect was still evident in a pooled meta-analysis of 8781 breast cancer patients from the BCAC (HR 1.19, 95% CI 1.05 to 1.36; p=0.01). CONCLUSIONS These findings suggest that XRCC2 SNPs may influence breast cancer risk and survival.
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- Institute for Cancer Studies, Department of Oncology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2RX, UK
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah 84108-1266, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah 84108-1266, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah 84108-1266, USA
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- Academic Unit of Surgical Oncology, Department of Oncology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2RX, UK
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- Academic Unit of Surgical Oncology, Department of Oncology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2RX, UK
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- Centre for Molecular Environmental Genetic and Analytical Epidemiology, School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne, 723 Swanston Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia
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- Centre for Molecular Environmental Genetic and Analytical Epidemiology, School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne, 723 Swanston Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia
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- Cancer Epidemiology Centre, The Cancer Council Victoria, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Pathology, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, Australia
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- Centre for Molecular Environmental Genetic and Analytical Epidemiology, School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne, 723 Swanston Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia
- Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Group, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain
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- Human Genetics Group, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain
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- Hannover Medical School, Clinics of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Hannover, Germany
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- Hannover Medical School, Clinics of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Hannover, Germany
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- Sections of Epidemiology and Genetics, Institute of Cancer Research, 15 Cotswold Rd, Belmont Sutton, Surrey SM2 5NG, UK
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- Hormonal and Reproductive Epidemiology Branch, National Cancer Institute, 6120 Executive Blvd., Room 5018, Rockville, MD 20852-7234, USA
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- Hormonal and Reproductive Epidemiology Branch, National Cancer Institute, 6120 Executive Blvd., Room 5018, Rockville, MD 20852-7234, USA
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention, The M. Sklodowska-Curie Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, WH Roentgena 5, 00-782 Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Radiation Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, U.S. National Cancer Institute, 6120 Executive Blvd., Rockville, MD 20852, USA
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- Radiation Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, U.S. National Cancer Institute, 6120 Executive Blvd., Rockville, MD 20852, USA
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- Radiation Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, U.S. National Cancer Institute, 6120 Executive Blvd., Rockville, MD 20852, USA
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- Radiation Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, U.S. National Cancer Institute, 6120 Executive Blvd., Rockville, MD 20852, USA
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Institute for Cancer Studies, Department of Oncology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2RX, UK
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Applebaum KM, Malloy EJ, Eisen EA. Left truncation, susceptibility, and bias in occupational cohort studies. Epidemiology 2011; 22:599-606. [PMID: 21543985 PMCID: PMC4153398 DOI: 10.1097/ede.0b013e31821d0879] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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BACKGROUND Left truncation occurs when subjects who otherwise meet entry criteria do not remain observable for a later start of follow-up. We investigated left truncation in occupational studies due to inclusion of workers hired before the start of follow-up in a simulation study. METHODS Using Monte Carlo methods, we simulated null and positive associations between exposure (work duration) and mortality for 500 datasets of 5000 subjects, assuming the absence and presence of heterogeneity in susceptibility to disease and to the effect of exposure. We examined incident hires (followed since hire) and left-truncated prevalent hires (those hired before baseline and remained employed at baseline). We estimated the association (&OV0404;1*) as the mean slope using Cox proportional hazards with a linear term for exposure, under scenarios with and without susceptibility. RESULTS With homogeneous susceptibility, there were no differences between incident and prevalent hires. Introducing only disease susceptibility did not change results. However, with heterogeneous susceptibility to the effect of exposure, downward bias was observed among prevalent hires under both the true null and positive exposure-response scenarios. The bias increased with time between hire and baseline (null: &OV0404;1* = 0.05 [SD = 0.08], &OV0404;1* = -0.08 [SD = 0.24], &OV0404;1* = -0.18 [SD = 0.98] if hired <15, 15 to <30, and ≥ 30 years before baseline, respectively), coincident with a decreasing percentage of susceptible subjects. CONCLUSIONS Prevalent hires induce downward bias in an occupational cohort. This occurs because subjects who are less susceptible to the exposure remain exposed the longest, thereby underestimating the association.
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- Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02118, USA.
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Pharoah PDP, Palmieri RT, Ramus SJ, Gayther SA, Andrulis IL, Anton-Culver H, Antonenkova N, Antoniou AC, Beattie MS, Beckmann MW, Birrer MJ, Bogdanova N, Bolton KL, Brewster W, Brooks-Wilson A, Brown R, Butzow R, Caldes T, Caligo MA, Campbell I, Chang-Claude J, Chen YA, Chenevix-Trench G, Cook LS, Couch FJ, Cramer DW, Cunningham JM, Despierre E, Doherty JA, Dörk T, Dürst M, Eccles DM, Ekici AB, Fasching PA, de Fazio A, Fenstermacher DA, Flanagan JM, Fridley BL, Friedman E, Gao B, Gentry-Maharaj A, Godwin AK, Goode EL, Goodman MT, Gross J, Hansen TVO, Harnett P, Heikkinen T, Hein R, Høgdall C, Høgdall E, Iversen ES, Jakubowska A, Johnatty SE, Karlan BY, Kauff ND, Kaye SB, Kelemen LE, Kiemeney LA, Kjaer SK, Lambrechts D, LaPolla JP, Lázaro C, Le ND, Leminen A, Leunen K, Levine DA, Lu Y, Lundvall L, Macgregor S, Marees T, Massuger LF, McLaughlin JR, Menon U, Montagna M, Moysich KB, Narod SA, Nathanson KL, Nedergaard L, Ness RB, Nevanlinna H, Nickels S, Osorio A, Paul J, Pearce CL, Phelan CM, Pike MC, Radice P, Rossing MA, Schildkraut JM, Sellers TA, Singer CF, Song H, Stram DO, Sutphen R, Terry KL, Tsai YY, van Altena AM, Vergote I, Vierkant RA, Vitonis AF, Walsh C, Wang-Gohrke S, Wappenschmidt B, Wu AH, Ziogas A, Berchuck A, Risch HA. The role of KRAS rs61764370 in invasive epithelial ovarian cancer: implications for clinical testing. Clin Cancer Res 2011; 17:3742-50. [PMID: 21385923 PMCID: PMC3107901 DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-10-3405] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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PURPOSE An assay for the single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), rs61764370, has recently been commercially marketed as a clinical test to aid ovarian cancer risk evaluation in women with family histories of the disease. rs67164370 is in a 3'-UTR miRNA binding site of the KRAS oncogene and is a candidate for epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) susceptibility. However, only one published article, analyzing fewer than 1,000 subjects in total, has examined this association. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN Risk association was evaluated in 8,669 cases of invasive EOC and 10,012 controls from 19 studies participating in the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium, and in 683 cases and 2,044 controls carrying BRCA1 mutations from studies in the Consortium of Investigators of Modifiers of BRCA1/2. Prognosis association was also examined in a subset of five studies with progression-free survival (PFS) data and 18 studies with all-cause mortality data. RESULTS No evidence of association was observed between genotype and risk of unselected EOC (OR = 1.02, 95% CI: 0.95-1.10), serous EOC (OR = 1.08, 95% CI: 0.98-1.18), familial EOC (OR = 1.09, 95% CI: 0.78-1.54), or among women carrying deleterious mutations in BRCA1 (OR = 1.09, 95% CI: 0.88-1.36). There was little evidence for association with survival time among unselected cases (HR = 1.10, 95% CI: 0.99-1.22), among serous cases (HR = 1.12, 95% CI = 0.99-1.28), or with PFS in 540 cases treated with carboplatin and paclitaxel (HR = 1.18, 95% CI: 0.93-1.52). CONCLUSIONS These data exclude the possibility of an association between rs61764370 and a clinically significant risk of ovarian cancer or of familial ovarian cancer. Use of this SNP for ovarian cancer clinical risk prediction, therefore, seems unwarranted.
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- Paul D. P. Pharoah
- Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine and the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine and the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Ontario Cancer Genetics Network, Cancer Care Ontario and Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, California, USA
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- Byelorussian Institute for Oncology and Medical Radiology Aleksandrov N.N., Minsk, Belarus
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Breast Cancer Family Registry, Epidemiology and Genetics Research Program, DCCPS, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, Maryland, USA
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- Cancer Risk Program, Departments of Medicine, Epidemiology, and Biostatistics, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Clinic of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
- Clinic of Radiation Oncology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
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- Genome Sciences Centre, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Epigenetics Unit, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
- Department of Pathology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Martín Lagos s/n, Madrid 28040, Spain
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- Centre for Cancer Genomics and Predictive Medicine, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Department of Pathology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida, USA
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- Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Internal Medicine, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
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- Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Genomics Shared Resource, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
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- Division of Gynaecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Hospitals Leuven, University of Leuven, Belgium
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- Program in Epidemiology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Clinic of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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- Clinic of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany
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- Wessex Clinical Genetics Service, Princess Anne Hospital, Southampton, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Friedrich Alexander Universitaet Erlangen-Nuremberg Erlangen, Germany
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Worts Causeway, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Gynaecological Oncology, Westmead Hospital, Westmead, NSW, Australia
- Westmead Institute for Cancer Research, University of Sydney at Westmead Millennium Institute, Westmead Hospital, NSW, Australia
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- Epigenetics Unit, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Health Sciences Research Division of Biostatistics, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
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- Oncogenetics Unit, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, and Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Department of Gynaecological Oncology, Westmead Hospital, Westmead, NSW, Australia
- Westmead Institute for Cancer Research, University of Sydney at Westmead Millennium Institute, Westmead Hospital, NSW, Australia
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- Cancer Genetics Network “Groupe Génétique et Cancer”, Fédération Nationale des Centres de Lutte Contre le Cancer, France
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- Department of Gynaecological Oncology, University College London, EGA Institute for Women’s Health, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, USA
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- Department of Health Sciences Research Division of Epidemiology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
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- Women’s Cancer Research Institute at the Samual Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Genomic Medicine, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Westmead Institute for Cancer Research, University of Sydney at Westmead Millennium Institute, Westmead Hospital, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Epidemiology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Gynecologic Clinic, The Juliane Marie Centre, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Viruses, Hormones and Cancer, Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Pathology, Molecular Unit, Herlev Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Statistical Science, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- International Hereditary Cancer Center, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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- Women’s Cancer Research Institute at the Samual Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Clinical Genetics Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA
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- Section of Medicine, Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, United Kingdom
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- Department of Population Health Research, Alberta Health Services-Cancer Care, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and HTA, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Gynecologic Clinic, The Juliane Marie Centre, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Viruses, Hormones and Cancer, Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Bayfront Medical Center Obstetrics and Gynecology Residency Program and Women’s Cancer Associates, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA
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- Hereditary Cancer Program, Instituto Catalán de Oncología, Barcelona, Spain
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- Cancer Control Research, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
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- Division of Gynaecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Hospitals Leuven, University of Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA
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- The Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Gynecologic Clinic, The Juliane Marie Centre, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- The Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and HTA, 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 Gynaecological Oncology, University College London, EGA Institute for Women’s Health, London, United Kingdom
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- Immunology and Molecular Oncology Unit, Istituto Oncologico Veneto IOV - IRCCS, Padua, Italy
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- Department of Cancer Prevention & Control, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, USA
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- Women’s College Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Medicine, Medical Genetics and Abramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Human Genetics Group, Human Cancer Genetics Programme, Spanish National Cancer Centre, Madrid, Spain
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- Cancer Research UK Clinical Trials Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine and the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine and the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA
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- Unit of Molecular Bases of Genetic Risk and Genetic Testing, Department of Preventive and Predicted Medicine, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori (INT), Milan, Italy
- IFOM, Fondazione Istituto FIRC di Oncologia Molecolare, Milan, Italy
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- Program in Epidemiology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida, USA
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- Division of Special Gynecology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine and the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- University of South Florida College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida, USA
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- Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida, USA
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- Department of Gynecology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Division of Gynaecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Hospitals Leuven, University of Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Health Sciences Research Division of Biostatistics, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
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- Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Women’s Cancer Research Institute at the Samual Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany
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- Center of Familial Breast and Ovarian Cancer, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Center for Integrated Oncology (CIO), University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine and the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, California, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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Wishart GC, Bajdik CD, Azzato EM, Dicks E, Greenberg DC, Rashbass J, Caldas C, Pharoah PDP. A population-based validation of the prognostic model PREDICT for early breast cancer. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SURGICAL ONCOLOGY 2011; 37:411-7. [PMID: 21371853 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejso.2011.02.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2011] [Accepted: 02/07/2011] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Predict (www.predict.nhs.uk) is a prognostication and treatment benefit tool developed using UK cancer registry data. The aim of this study was to compare the 10-year survival estimates from Predict with observed 10-year outcome from a British Columbia dataset and to compare the estimates with those generated by Adjuvant! (www.adjuvantonline.com). METHOD The analysis was based on data from 3140 patients with early invasive breast cancer diagnosed in British Columbia, Canada, from 1989-1993. Demographic, pathologic, staging and treatment data were used to predict 10-year overall survival (OS) and breast cancer specific survival (BCSS) using Adjuvant! and Predict models. Predicted outcomes from both models were then compared with observed outcomes. RESULTS Calibration of both models was excellent. The difference in total number of deaths estimated by Predict was 4.1 percent of observed compared to 0.7 percent for Adjuvant!. The total number of breast cancer specific deaths estimated by Predict was 3.4 percent of observed compared to 6.7 percent for Adjuvant! Both models also discriminate well with similar AUC for Predict and Adjuvant! respectively for both OS (0.709 vs 0.712) and BCSS (0.723 vs 0.727). Neither model performed well in women aged 20-35. CONCLUSION In summary Predict provided accurate overall and breast cancer specific survival estimates in the British Columbia dataset that are comparable with outcome estimates from Adjuvant! Both models appear well calibrated with similar model discrimination. This study provides further validation of Predict as an effective predictive tool following surgery for invasive breast cancer.
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- G C Wishart
- Cambridge Breast Unit, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 2QQ, UK
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Bolton KL, Tyrer J, Song H, Ramus SJ, Notaridou M, Jones C, Sher T, Gentry-Maharaj A, Wozniak E, Tsai YY, Weidhaas J, Paik D, Van Den Berg DJ, Stram DO, Pearce CL, Wu AH, Brewster W, Anton-Culver H, Ziogas A, Narod SA, Levine DA, Kaye SB, Brown R, Paul J, Flanagan J, Sieh W, McGuire V, Whittemore AS, Campbell I, Gore ME, Lissowska J, Yang H, Medrek K, Gronwald J, Lubinski J, Jakubowska A, Le ND, Cook LS, Kelemen LE, Brooks-Wilson A, Massuger LF, Kiemeney LA, Aben KK, van Altena AM, Houlston R, Tomlinson I, Palmieri RT, Moorman PG, Schildkraut J, Iversen ES, Phelan C, Vierkant RA, Cunningham JM, Goode EL, Fridley BL, Kruger-Kjaer S, Blaeker J, Hogdall E, Hogdall C, Gross J, Karlan BY, Ness RB, Edwards RP, Odunsi K, Moyisch KB, Baker JA, Modugno F, Heikkinenen T, Butzow R, Nevanlinna H, Leminen A, Bogdanova N, Antonenkova N, Doerk T, Hillemanns P, Dürst M, Runnebaum I, Thompson PJ, Carney ME, Goodman MT, Lurie G, Wang-Gohrke S, Hein R, Chang-Claude J, Rossing MA, Cushing-Haugen KL, Doherty J, Chen C, Rafnar T, Besenbacher S, Sulem P, Stefansson K, Birrer MJ, Terry KL, Hernandez D, Cramer DW, Vergote I, Amant F, Lambrechts D, Despierre E, Fasching PA, Beckmann MW, Thiel FC, Ekici AB, Chen X, Johnatty SE, Webb PM, Beesley J, Chanock S, Garcia-Closas M, Sellers T, Easton DF, Berchuck A, Chenevix-Trench G, Pharoah PD, Gayther SA, Gayther SA. Common variants at 19p13 are associated with susceptibility to ovarian cancer. Nat Genet 2010; 42:880-4. [PMID: 20852633 PMCID: PMC3125495 DOI: 10.1038/ng.666] [Citation(s) in RCA: 217] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2010] [Accepted: 07/30/2010] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) is the leading cause of death from gynecological malignancy in the developed world, accounting for 4% of the deaths from cancer in women. We performed a three-phase genome-wide association study of EOC survival in 8,951 individuals with EOC (cases) with available survival time data and a parallel association analysis of EOC susceptibility. Two SNPs at 19p13.11, rs8170 and rs2363956, showed evidence of association with survival (overall P = 5 × 10⁻⁴ and P = 6 × 10⁻⁴, respectively), but they did not replicate in phase 3. However, the same two SNPs demonstrated genome-wide significance for risk of serous EOC (P = 3 × 10⁻⁹ and P = 4 × 10⁻¹¹, respectively). Expression analysis of candidate genes at this locus in ovarian tumors supported a role for the BRCA1-interacting gene C19orf62, also known as MERIT40, which contains rs8170, in EOC development.
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- Kelly L. Bolton
- Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK,Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Gynaecological Oncology, University College London, EGA Institute for Women’s Health, London, UK
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- Department of Gynaecological Oncology, University College London, EGA Institute for Women’s Health, London, UK
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- Department of Gynaecological Oncology, University College London, EGA Institute for Women’s Health, London, UK
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- Department of Gynaecological Oncology, University College London, EGA Institute for Women’s Health, London, UK
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- Department of Gynaecological Oncology, University College London, EGA Institute for Women’s Health, London, UK
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- Department of Gynaecological Oncology, University College London, EGA Institute for Women’s Health, London, UK
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- H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida, USA
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- Department of Therapeutic Radiology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, California, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, California, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, California, USA
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- Gynecology Service, Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA
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- Section of Medicine, Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, UK
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- Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Cancer Research UK Clinical Trials Unit, Glasgow University, Glasgow, UK
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- Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Standford, California, USA
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- Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Standford, California, USA
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- Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Standford, California, USA
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- Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute, Melbourne, Australia
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- The Royal Marsden Hospital, Gynecological Oncology Unit, London, UK
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention, M Sklodowska-Curie Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Warsaw, Poland
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, USA
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- International Hereditary Cancer Center, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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- International Hereditary Cancer Center, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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- International Hereditary Cancer Center, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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- International Hereditary Cancer Center, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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- Cancer Control Research, BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA,Alberta Health Services-Cancer Care, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, BC, Canada,Department of Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
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- Department of Gynaecology, Radboud University, Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Gynaecology, Radboud University, Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Gynaecology, Radboud University, Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Section of Cancer Genetics, Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, UK
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- Population and Functional Genetics Lab, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Statistics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida, USA
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- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
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- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
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- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
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- Department of Virus, Hormones and Cancer Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Virus, Hormones and Cancer Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- The Gynaecologic Clinic, The Juliane Marie Centre, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Women's Cancer Research Institute at the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Women's Cancer Research Institute at the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Department of Gynecological Oncology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, USA
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- Department of Cancer Genetics, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
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- Byelorussian Institute for Oncology and Medical Radiology Aleksandrov N.N., Minsk, Belarus
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- Byelorussian Institute for Oncology and Medical Radiology Aleksandrov N.N., Minsk, Belarus
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- Clinics of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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- Clinics of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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- Clinics of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany
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- Clinics of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany
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- Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
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- Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
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- Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
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- Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany
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- Unit of Genetic Epidemiology, Division of Cancer Epidemiology, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Unit of Genetic Epidemiology, Division of Cancer Epidemiology, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Program in Epidemiology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Program in Epidemiology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Program in Epidemiology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Program in Epidemiology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemology Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- National Institute of Aging, National Institutues of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemology Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Gynaecologic Oncology, University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Gynaecologic Oncology, University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Gynaecologic Oncology, University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium
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- Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention, The M.Sklodowska-Curie Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Warsaw, Poland
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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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- The Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Post Office Royal Brisbane Hospital, Australia
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- The Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Post Office Royal Brisbane Hospital, Australia
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- The Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Post Office Royal Brisbane Hospital, Australia
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- The Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Post Office Royal Brisbane Hospital, Australia
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, USA
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- H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida, USA
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- Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- The Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Post Office Royal Brisbane Hospital, Australia
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- Department of Gynaecological Oncology, University College London, EGA Institute for Women’s Health, London, UK
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