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Heggland T, Vatten LJ, Opdahl S, Weedon-Fekjær H. Non-progressive breast carcinomas detected at mammography screening: a population study. Breast Cancer Res 2023; 25:80. [PMID: 37403150 PMCID: PMC10318793 DOI: 10.1186/s13058-023-01682-9] [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: 04/23/2023] [Accepted: 06/26/2023] [Indexed: 07/06/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Some breast carcinomas detected at screening, especially ductal carcinoma in situ, may have limited potential for progression to symptomatic disease. To determine non-progression is a challenge, but if all screening-detected breast tumors eventually reach a clinical stage, the cumulative incidence at a reasonably high age would be similar for women with or without screening, conditional on the women being alive. METHODS Using high-quality population data with 24 years of follow-up from the gradually introduced BreastScreen Norway program, we studied whether all breast carcinomas detected at mammography screening 50-69 years of age would progress to clinical symptoms within 85 years of age. First, we estimated the incidence rates of breast carcinomas by age in scenarios with or without screening, based on an extended age-period-cohort incidence model. Next, we estimated the frequency of non-progressive tumors among screening-detected cases, by calculating the difference in the cumulative rate of breast carcinomas between the screening and non-screening scenarios at 85 years of age. RESULTS Among women who attended BreastScreen Norway from the age of 50 to 69 years, we estimated that 1.1% of the participants were diagnosed with a breast carcinoma without the potential to progress to symptomatic disease by 85 years of age. This proportion of potentially non-progressive tumors corresponded to 15.7% [95% CI 3.3, 27.1] of breast carcinomas detected at screening. CONCLUSIONS Our findings suggest that nearly one in six breast carcinomas detected at screening may be non-progressive.
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- Torunn Heggland
- Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology [OCBE], Research Support Services, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway.
- Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Department of Biostatistics, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
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- Department of Public Health and Nursing, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Public Health and Nursing, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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- Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology [OCBE], Research Support Services, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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Incidence, Mortality and Survival Trends in Breast Cancers Coincident with Introduction of Mammography in the Nordic Countries. Cancers (Basel) 2022; 14:cancers14235907. [PMID: 36497389 PMCID: PMC9736677 DOI: 10.3390/cancers14235907] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2022] [Revised: 11/24/2022] [Accepted: 11/25/2022] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Survival in female breast cancers has generally improved but the relative contribution of early detection or treatment in this positive development is not known. Our aim was to assess the possible role of national mammography screening programs in survival improvement. Such screening has been offered to women, usually at 50-69 years of age, in Finland and Sweden since the 1980s and in Denmark and Norway since the 1990s. Participation rates have been high, ranging from 60% to 90%. We analyzed incidence and mortality changes and relative 5- and 10-year survival trends in breast cancer as novel measures in these countries using the NORDCAN database. Survival trends were compared in age groups of women who were screened to those who were not screened. We observed a relative survival advantage in 5-year and 10-year survival in the screened age groups after the period of national mammography screening was in place and this was consistent in each country. Timing and age-specific targeting of the improvements suggest that mammography may have contributed to the survival benefits. However, as we had no individual data on women who used the service, more detailed studies are needed to confirm the suggested survival advantage, particularly concerning mortality in stage-specific breast cancer.
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Trends and patterns of cause-specific hospitalizations in mainland Portugal between 2000 and 2016. Public Health 2022; 207:62-72. [DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2022.03.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2021] [Revised: 02/14/2022] [Accepted: 03/02/2022] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Wong IOL, Lam YT, Lam KF, Cowling BJ, Leung GM. Demographic and Epidemiological Contributions to Recent Trends in Cancer Incidence in Hong Kong. Cancers (Basel) 2021; 13:cancers13225727. [PMID: 34830881 PMCID: PMC8616530 DOI: 10.3390/cancers13225727] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2021] [Revised: 11/11/2021] [Accepted: 11/11/2021] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Hong Kong has an ageing Chinese population with high life expectancy and a rising number of cancer cases. While population ageing could lead to higher incidence, we aim to quantify the demographic and epidemiological contributions to this trend by disentangling the effect of these factors. METHODS We analysed secular trends of cancer incidences of all cancer sites combined, including the five top cancers in men and women in Hong Kong in 1983-2017, by disentangling effects of demographics (ageing population and population growth) and cancer risk/rate change using the RiskDiff methodology. RESULTS Overall, age-standardised incidences of all cancers combined in women and in men declined over the study period (-5.3% for women, -30.2% for men), but total incident cancer case counts increased dramatically (156.5% for women, 96% for men). This increase was primarily due to ageing and increasing population (95% age, 66.1% growth for women, and 119.4% age, 25.4% growth for men), while disease risk for all cancers combined has a decreasing trend (-4.5% for women and -48.8% for men). For the site-specific risk changes among the most five common cancer types, there were increases in risks of prostate and colorectal cancers in men, and breast, endometrial, and thyroid cancers in women. CONCLUSION Demographic changes and ageing in our Chinese population resulted in a marked increase in the number of cancer diagnoses in Hong Kong in past decades. The surge in incident case counts overall is expected to stress the healthcare system in terms of the increased demand of healthcare professionals. Cancer surveillance should be enhanced in view of the growing demand from older patients and the cancer types with fast-increasing incidence rates in our population.
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- Irene Oi Ling Wong
- School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China; (Y.T.L.); (B.J.C.); (G.M.L.)
- Correspondence:
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- School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China; (Y.T.L.); (B.J.C.); (G.M.L.)
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- Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China;
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- School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China; (Y.T.L.); (B.J.C.); (G.M.L.)
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- School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China; (Y.T.L.); (B.J.C.); (G.M.L.)
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Bulliard JL, Beau AB, Njor S, Wu WYY, Procopio P, Nickson C, Lynge E. Breast cancer screening and overdiagnosis. Int J Cancer 2021; 149:846-853. [PMID: 33872390 DOI: 10.1002/ijc.33602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2020] [Revised: 03/19/2021] [Accepted: 04/07/2021] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Overdiagnosis is a harmful consequence of screening which is particularly challenging to estimate. An unbiased setting to measure overdiagnosis in breast cancer screening requires comparative data from a screened and an unscreened cohort for at least 30 years. Such randomised data will not become available, leaving us with observational data over shorter time periods and outcomes of modelling. This collaborative effort of the International Cancer Screening Network quantified the variation in estimated breast cancer overdiagnosis in organised programmes with evaluation of both observed and simulated data, and presented examples of how modelling can provide additional insights. Reliable observational data, analysed with study design accounting for methodological pitfalls, and modelling studies with different approaches, indicate that overdiagnosis accounts for less than 10% of invasive breast cancer cases in a screening target population of women aged 50 to 69. Estimates above this level are likely to derive from inaccuracies in study design. The widely discrepant estimates of overdiagnosis reported from observational data could substantially be reduced by use of a cohort study design with at least 10 years of follow-up after screening stops. In contexts where concomitant opportunistic screening or gradual implementation of screening occurs, and data on valid comparison groups are not readily available, modelling of screening intervention becomes an advantageous option to obtain reliable estimates of breast cancer overdiagnosis.
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- Jean-Luc Bulliard
- Centre for Primary Care and Public Health (unisanté), University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Pharmacologie Médicale, Faculté de Médecine, Université Paul-Sabatier III, CHU Toulouse, UMR INSERM, Toulouse, France
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- Randers Regional Hospital, Randers, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Radiation Sciences, Oncology, Umeå University, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Daffodil Centre, University of Sydney, a joint venture with Cancer Council New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
- Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Carlton, Australia
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- Daffodil Centre, University of Sydney, a joint venture with Cancer Council New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
- Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Carlton, Australia
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- Nykøbing Falster Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Nykøbing Falster, Denmark
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Lynge E, Beau AB, von Euler-Chelpin M, Napolitano G, Njor S, Olsen AH, Schwartz W, Vejborg I. Breast cancer mortality and overdiagnosis after implementation of population-based screening in Denmark. Breast Cancer Res Treat 2020; 184:891-899. [PMID: 32862304 PMCID: PMC7655583 DOI: 10.1007/s10549-020-05896-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2020] [Accepted: 08/18/2020] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Service breast cancer screening is difficult to evaluate because there is no unscreened control group. Due to a natural experiment, where 20% of women were offered screening in two regions up to 17 years before other women, Denmark is in a unique position. We utilized this opportunity to assess outcome of service screening. MATERIALS AND METHODS Screening was offered in Copenhagen from 1991 and Funen from 1993 to women aged 50-69 years. We used difference-in-differences methodology with a study group offered screening; a historical control group; a regional control group; and a regional-historical control group, comparing breast cancer mortality and incidence, including ductal carcinoma in situ, between study and historical control group adjusted for changes in other regions, and calculating ratios of rate ratios (RRR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI). Data came from Central Population Register; mammography screening databases; Cause of Death Register; and Danish Cancer Register. RESULTS For breast cancer mortality, the study group accumulated 1,551,465 person-years and 911 deaths. Long-term breast cancer mortality in Copenhagen was 20% below expected in absence of screening; RRR 0.80 (95% CI 0.71-0.90), and in Funen 22% below; RRR 0.78 (95% CI 0.68-0.89). Combined, cumulative breast cancer incidence in women followed 8+ years post-screening was 2.3% above expected in absence of screening; RRR 1.023 (95% CI 0.97-1.08). DISCUSSION Benefit-to-harm ratio of the two Danish screening programs was 2.6 saved breast cancer deaths per overdiagnosed case. Screening can affect only breast cancers diagnosed in screening age. Due to high breast cancer incidence after age 70, only one-third of breast cancer deaths after age 50 could potentially be affected by screening. Increasing upper age limit could be considered, but might affect benefit-to-harm ratio negatively.
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- Elsebeth Lynge
- Nykøbing Falster Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Ejegodvej 63, 4800 Nykøbing Falster, Denmark
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- Pharmacologie Médicale, Faculté de Médecine, Université Paul-Sabatier III, CHU Toulouse, UMR INSERM 1027, 37 allées Jules Guesde, 31000 Toulouse, France
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- Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5, 1041 Copenhagen K, Denmark
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- Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5, 1041 Copenhagen K, Denmark
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- Department of Public Health Programmes, Randers Regional Hospital, Randers, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5, 1041 Copenhagen K, Denmark
- Present Address: Novo Nordisk A/S, Bagsværd, Denmark
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- Breast Cancer Screening, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark
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- Radiology Department, Copenhagen University Hospital Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Licher S, van der Willik KD, Vinke EJ, Yilmaz P, Fani L, Schagen SB, Ikram MA, Ikram MK. Alzheimer's disease as a multistage process: an analysis from a population-based cohort study. Aging (Albany NY) 2020; 11:1163-1176. [PMID: 30811346 PMCID: PMC6402512 DOI: 10.18632/aging.101816] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2018] [Accepted: 02/01/2019] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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In cancer research, multistage models are used to assess the multistep process that leads to the onset of cancer. In view of biological and clinical similarities between cancer and dementia, we used these models to study Alzheimer’s disease (AD). From the population-based Rotterdam Study, we included 9,362 non-demented participants, of whom 1,124 developed AD during up to 26 years of follow-up. Under a multistage model, we regressed the logarithm of AD incidence rate against the logarithm of five-year age categories. The slope in this model reflects the number of steps (n–1) required for disease onset before the final step leading to disease manifestation. A linear relationship between log incidence rate and log age was observed, with a slope of 12.82 (95% confidence interval: 9.01-16.62), equivalent to 14 steps. We observed fewer steps for those at high genetically determined risk: 12 steps for APOE-ε4 carriers, and 10 steps for those at highest genetic risk based on APOE and a genetic risk score. The pathogenesis of AD complies with a multistage disease-model, requiring 14 steps before disease manifestation. Genetically predisposed individuals require fewer steps indicating that they already inherited multiple of these steps. Unravelling these steps in AD pathogenesis could benefit the development of intervention strategies.
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- Silvan Licher
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC - University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC - University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.,Department of Psychosocial Research and Epidemiology, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC - University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.,Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Erasmus MC - University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC - University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.,Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Erasmus MC - University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC - University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Psychosocial Research and Epidemiology, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.,Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC - University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC - University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.,Department of Neurology, Erasmus MC - University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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Lousdal ML, Møller MH, Kristiansen IS, Kalager M, Wisløff T, Støvring H. The Screening Illustrator: separating the effects of lead-time and overdiagnosis in mammography screening. Eur J Public Health 2019; 28:1138-1142. [PMID: 29796623 DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/cky085] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Background Mammography screening increases incidence because cancers are detected earlier in time and because of overdiagnosis. We developed an Excel-based model to visualize the expected increase from lead-time amplified by increasing background incidence. Subsequently, we added overdiagnosis to the model. Methods We constructed two hypothetical populations of women aged 50-79 in 5-year age and calendar groups: one with screening for women aged 50-69 and one without. The user enters information on population at risk, number of breast cancers, trends in background incidence, average length of lead-time and, optionally, overdiagnosis. The model computes incidence rate ratios (IRRs) comparing incidence changes with screening to changes without in open and closed cohorts. Results We entered information from Norway from 1990 to 1994, the period preceding the gradual introduction of a national mammography screening programme. As expected, the Screening Illustrator showed prevalence peaks and compensatory drops. Only the closed cohort approach remained unaffected by increasing background incidence. The model showed a 20% sustained increase in incidence (IRR: 1.20) from lead-time and increasing background incidence in the open cohort approach for women aged 50-69. However, real life Norwegian data show a corresponding 38% increase. For the model to achieve the observed incidence, 10-14% overdiagnosis had to be added. Conclusion The observed breast cancer incidence increase in Norway after screening implementation could not be obtained from an average lead-time of 2.5 years and empirical background incidence trends, but had to incorporate overdiagnosis.
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- Mette L Lousdal
- Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Health Management and Health Economics, Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Health Management and Health Economics, Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.,Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Health Management and Health Economics, Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.,Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Modelling, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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Katuwal S, Martinsen JI, Kjaerheim K, Sparen P, Tryggvadottir L, Lynge E, Weiderpass E, Pukkala E. Occupational variation in the risk of female breast cancer in the Nordic countries. Cancer Causes Control 2018; 29:1027-1038. [DOI: 10.1007/s10552-018-1076-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2018] [Accepted: 08/23/2018] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Trewin CB, Strand BH, Weedon-Fekjær H, Ursin G. Changing patterns of breast cancer incidence and mortality by education level over four decades in Norway, 1971-2009. Eur J Public Health 2018; 27:160-166. [PMID: 28177482 DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/ckw148] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Background In the last century, breast cancer incidence and mortality was higher among higher versus lower educated women in developed countries. Post-millennium, incidence rates have flattened off and mortality declined. We examined breast cancer trends by education level, to see whether recent improvements in incidence and mortality rates have occurred in all education groups. Methods We linked individual registry data on female Norwegian inhabitants aged 35 years and over during 1971–2009. Using Poisson models, we calculated absolute and relative educational differences in age-standardised breast cancer incidence and mortality over four decades. We estimated educational differences by Slope and Relative Index of Inequality, which correspond to rate difference and rate ratio, comparing the highest to lowest educated women. Results Pre-millennium, incidence and mortality of breast cancer were significantly higher in higher versus lower educated women. Post-millennium, educational differences in breast cancer incidence and mortality attenuated. During 2000–2009, breast cancer incidence was still 38% higher for higher versus lower educated women (Relative Index of Inequality: 1.38, 95% confidence interval: 1.31–1.44), but mortality no longer varied significantly by education level (Relative Index of Inequality: 1.09, 95% confidence interval: 0.99–1.19). Among women below 50 years, however, the education gradient for mortality reversed, and mortality was 28% lower for the highest versus lowest educated women during 2000–2009 (Relative Index of Inequality: 0.72, 95% confidence interval: 0.51–0.93). Results Post-millennium improvements in breast cancer incidence and mortality have primarily benefited higher educated women. Breast cancer mortality is now highest among the lowest educated women below 50 years.
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- Cassia B Trewin
- Department of Research, Cancer Registry of Norway, Oslo, Norway.,Norwegian Advisory Unit for Women's Health, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway.,Department of Health and Inequality, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Ageing and Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway.,Department of Community Medicine, Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Research Support Services, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- Cancer Registry of Norway, Institute of Population-based Cancer Research, Oslo, Norway.,Department of Preventative Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA.,Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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Westvik ÅS, Weedon-Fekjær H, Mæhlen J, Liestøl K. Evaluating different breast tumor progression models using screening data. BMC Cancer 2018; 18:209. [PMID: 29463227 PMCID: PMC5819671 DOI: 10.1186/s12885-018-4130-2] [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: 06/01/2016] [Accepted: 02/14/2018] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Background Mammography screening is used to detect breast cancer at an early treatable stage, reducing breast cancer mortality. Traditionally, breast cancer has been seen as a disease with only progressive lesions, and here we examine the validity of this assumption by testing if incidence levels after introducing mammography screening can be reproduced assuming only progressive tumors. Methods Breast cancer incidence data 1990–2009 obtained from the initially screened Norwegian counties (Akershus, Oslo, Rogaland and Hordaland) was included, covering the time-period before, during and after the introduction of mammography screening. From 1996 women aged 50–69 were invited for biennial public screening. Using estimates of tumor growth and screening sensitivity based on pre-screening and prevalence screening data (1990–1998), we simulated incidence levels during the following period (1999–2009). Results The simulated incidence levels during the period with repeated screenings were markedly below the observed levels. The results were robust to changes in model parameters. Adjusting for hormone replacement therapy use, we obtained levels closer to the observed levels. However, there was still a marked gap, and only by assuming some tumors that undergo regressive changes or enter a markedly less detectable state, was our model able to reproduce the observed incidence levels. Conclusions Models with strictly progressive tumors are only able to partly explain the changes in incidence levels observed after screening introduction in the initially screened Norwegian counties. More complex explanations than a time shift in detection of future clinical cancers seem to be needed to reproduce the incidence trends, questioning the basis for many over-diagnosis calculations. As data are not randomized, similar studies in other populations are wanted to exclude effect of unknown confounders. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s12885-018-4130-2) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Oslo Center for biostatistics and epidemiology, Research Support Services, Oslo University Hospital, Norway, P.O. Box 4956 Nydalen, 0424, Oslo, Norway.
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- Department of Pathology, Oslo University Hospital, Norway, P.O. Box 4956 Nydalen, 0424, Oslo, Norway
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- Center of Cancer Biomedicine, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway, P.O. Box 1080 Blindern, 0316, Oslo, Norway
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Zanetti R, Ponti A, Rosso S, Ricceri F, Pitarella S, Segnan N. The Beginning of a Decline in Breast Cancer Incidence in Italy? TUMORI JOURNAL 2018; 94:293-6. [DOI: 10.1177/030089160809400301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The incidence of invasive breast cancer in Turin, Italy, showed a statistically significant decrease during 1999–2003 overall (estimated annual percent change -2.6; 95% CL -8.52; -0.78) and in women aged over 50, similar to the recently documented trend in American data. This represents the first demonstration of a decline in breast cancer incidence in the early years of this decade outside the United States. In our population, the drop in the usage of hormone replacement therapy which occurred after 2002 is unlikely to be at the origin of this declining incidence trend, which is largely explained by a screening effect. This observation may be relevant to other geographical areas where organized or spontaneous screening reached a plateau after an increase in the preceding years.
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- Unità di Valutazione dello Screening Mammografico, CPO, Turin, Italy
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- Unità di Valutazione dello Screening Mammografico, CPO, Turin, Italy
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- Unità di Epidemiologia dei Tumori, Centro per l'Epidemiologia e la Prevenzione Oncologica, CPO, Turin, Italy
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Lynge E, Bak M, von Euler-Chelpin M, Kroman N, Lernevall A, Mogensen NB, Schwartz W, Wronecki AJ, Vejborg I. Outcome of breast cancer screening in Denmark. BMC Cancer 2017; 17:897. [PMID: 29282034 PMCID: PMC5745763 DOI: 10.1186/s12885-017-3929-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [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: 08/03/2017] [Accepted: 12/18/2017] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND In Denmark, national roll-out of a population-based, screening mammography program took place in 2007-2010. We report on outcome of the first four biennial invitation rounds. METHODS Data on screening outcome were retrieved from the 2015 and 2016 national screening quality reports. We calculated coverage by examination; participation after invitation; detection-, interval cancer- and false-positive rates; cancer characteristics; sensitivity and specificity, for Denmark and for the five regions. RESULTS At the national level coverage by examination remained at 75-77%; lower in the Capital Region than in the rest of Denmrk. Detection rate was slightly below 1% at first screen, 0.6% at subsequent screens, and one region had some fluctuation over time. Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) constituted 13-14% of screen-detected cancers. In subsequent rounds, 80% of screen-detected invasive cancers were node negative and 40% ≤10 mm. False-positive rate was around 2%; higher for North Denmark Region than for the rest of Denmark. Three out of 10 breast cancers in screened women were diagnosed as interval cancers. CONCLUSIONS High coverage by examination and low interval cancer rate are required for screening to decrease breast cancer mortality. Two pioneer local screening programs starting in the 1990s were followed by a decrease in breast cancer mortality of 22-25%. Coverage by examination and interval cancer rate of the national program were on the favorable side of values from the pioneer programs. It appears that the implementation of a national screening program in Denmark has been successful, though regional variations need further evaluation to assure optimization of the program.
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MESH Headings
- Aged
- Breast Neoplasms/diagnosis
- Breast Neoplasms/epidemiology
- Breast Neoplasms/mortality
- Carcinoma, Ductal, Breast/diagnosis
- Carcinoma, Ductal, Breast/epidemiology
- Carcinoma, Ductal, Breast/mortality
- Carcinoma, Intraductal, Noninfiltrating/diagnosis
- Carcinoma, Intraductal, Noninfiltrating/epidemiology
- Carcinoma, Intraductal, Noninfiltrating/mortality
- Denmark/epidemiology
- Early Detection of Cancer/mortality
- Female
- Follow-Up Studies
- Humans
- Mammography/mortality
- Middle Aged
- Outcome Assessment, Health Care
- Prognosis
- Survival Rate
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Affiliation(s)
- Elsebeth Lynge
- Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5, 1014 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Pathology, Odense University Hospital, J. B. Winsløws Vej 15, 5000 Odense, Denmark
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- Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5, 1014 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Breast Surgery, Copenhagen University Hospital Herlev, Blegdamsvej 9, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Public Health Programmes, Randers Regional Hospital, Skovlyvej 15, 8930 Randers NØ, Denmark
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- Mammography Centre, Odense University Hospital, J. B. Winsløws Vej 15, 5000 Odense, Denmark
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- Radiology Department, Aalborg Univeristy Hospital, Hobrovej 18-22, 9000 Aalborg, Denmark
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- Radiology Department, Copenhagen University Hospital Rigshospitalet, Blegdamsvej 9, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark
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Lynge E, Beau AB, Christiansen P, von Euler-Chelpin M, Kroman N, Njor S, Vejborg I. Overdiagnosis in breast cancer screening: The impact of study design and calculations. Eur J Cancer 2017; 80:26-29. [PMID: 28535494 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejca.2017.04.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2017] [Revised: 04/05/2017] [Accepted: 04/17/2017] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Overdiagnosis in breast cancer screening is an important issue. A recent study from Denmark concluded that one in three breast cancers diagnosed in screening areas in women aged 50-69 years were overdiagnosed. The purpose of this short communication was to disentangle the study's methodology in order to evaluate the soundness of this conclusion. We found that both the use of absolute differences as opposed to ratios; the sole focus on non-advanced tumours and the crude allocation of tumours and person-years by screening history for women aged 70-84 years, all contributed to the very high estimate of overdiagnosis. Screening affects cohorts of screened women. Danish registers allow very accurate mapping of the fate of every woman. We should be past the phase where studies of overdiagnosis are based on the fixed age groups from routine statistics.
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- Elsebeth Lynge
- Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5, DK 1014 København K, Denmark.
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- Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5, DK 1014 København K, Denmark
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- Plastic and Breast Surgery, Breast Surgery Unit, Aarhus University Hospital/Randers Regional Hospital, Norrebrogade 44, DK 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5, DK 1014 København K, Denmark
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- Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 9, DK 2100 København K, Denmark
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- Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University, Olof Palmes Allé 43-45, DK 8200 Aarhus N, Denmark
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- Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 9, DK 2100 København K, Denmark
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Katayama K, Narimatsu H. Prediction of Female Breast Cancer Incidence among the Aging Society in Kanagawa, Japan. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0159913. [PMID: 27532126 PMCID: PMC4988816 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0159913] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2015] [Accepted: 07/11/2016] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Owing to the increasing number of elderly “baby boomers” in Japan, the number of cancer patients is also expected to increase. Approximately 2 million baby boomers from nearby local areas are residing in metropolitan areas; hence, the geographical distribution of cancer patients will probably markedly change. We assessed the expected number of breast cancer (BC) patients in different regions (urban, outer city, town, rural) using estimates of the nation’s population and Kanagawa Cancer Registry data. To estimate future BC incidence for each region, we multiplied the 2010 rate by the predicted female population for each region according to age group. The incidence cases of BC in those aged ≥65 years is expected to increase in all areas; in particular, compared to rates in 2010, the BC incidence in urban areas was predicted to increase by 82.6% in 2035 and 102.2% in 2040. Although the incidence in all BC cases in urban areas showed an increasing trend, until peaking in 2040 (increasing 31.2% from 2010), the number of BC patients would continue to decrease in other areas. The number of BC patients per capita BC specialist was 64.3 patients in 2010; this value would increase from 59.3 in 2010 to 77.7 in 2040 in urban areas, but would decrease in other areas. Our findings suggest that the number of elderly BC patients is expected to increase rapidly in urban areas and that the demand for BC treatment would increase in the elderly population in urban areas.
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- Kayoko Katayama
- Cancer Prevention and Control Division, Kanagawa Cancer Center Research Institute, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Cancer Prevention and Control Division, Kanagawa Cancer Center Research Institute, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
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Vehko T, Arffman M, Manderbacka K, Pukkala E, Keskimäki I. Differences in mortality among women with breast cancer by income – a register-based study in Finland. Scand J Public Health 2016; 44:630-637. [DOI: 10.1177/1403494816660455] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Aims: The aim was to assess all-cause and breast cancer mortality by income among women with incident breast cancer and the effect of cancer stage at diagnosis and comorbidity on the differences. Methods: The 43,439 women (age ⩾30) diagnosed with breast cancer in 1998–2008 in Finland were monitored using individual-level Cancer Registry data supplemented with data from Finnish health care registers and sociodemographic data. Results: Overall mortality was greater among breast cancer patients of the lowest income group than in the highest one; the hazard ratio (HR) for age and incidence year adjusted all-cause mortality was 1.9 (95% CI 1.8–2.1) and for breast cancer mortality 2.0 (95% CI 1.8–2.2). The women from the lowest income group were over-represented in the breast cancer stage ‘distant’ (10.1% vs. 3.5% among the highest income group). The presence of comorbidities was more common in patients with the lowest income (at least one comorbidity in 54%) than in the highest (24%). The HR adjusted with stage at presentation and comorbidities was 1.6 (95% CI 1.4–1.7) for all-cause mortality and 1.6 (95% CI 1.4–1.7) for breast cancer mortality. Conclusions: Tumour stage at diagnosis was more severe among lower income groups, and the presence of comorbidities was more common, although this only accounted for a part of the higher breast cancer mortality in these groups. More information is needed about recognition, diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer to examine whether the socioeconomic differences of breast cancer mortality are related to care.
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- Tuulikki Vehko
- National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Helsinki, Finland
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- National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Helsinki, Finland
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- Finnish Cancer Registry, Institute for Statistical and Epidemiological Cancer Research, Helsinki, Finland
- School of Health Sciences, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland
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- National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Helsinki, Finland
- School of Health Sciences, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland
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Hofvind S, Román M, Sebuødegård S, Falk RS. Balancing the benefits and detriments among women targeted by the Norwegian Breast Cancer Screening Program. J Med Screen 2016; 23:203-209. [DOI: 10.1177/0969141315625088] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2015] [Accepted: 12/10/2015] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Objective To compute a ratio between the estimated numbers of lives saved from breast cancer death and the number of women diagnosed with a breast cancer that never would have been diagnosed during the woman’s lifetime had she not attended screening (epidemiologic over-diagnosis) in the Norwegian Breast Cancer Screening Program. Methods The Norwegian Breast Cancer Screening Program invites women aged 50–69 to biennial mammographic screening. Results from published studies using individual level data from the programme for estimating breast cancer mortality and epidemiologic over-diagnosis comprised the basis for the ratio. The mortality reduction varied from 36.8% to 43% among screened women, while estimates on epidemiologic over-diagnosis ranged from 7% to 19.6%. We computed the average estimates for both values. The benefit–detriment ratio, number of lives saved, and number of women over-diagnosed were computed for different scenarios of reduction in breast cancer mortality and epidemiologic over-diagnosis. Results For every 10,000 biennially screened women, followed until age 79, we estimated that 53–61 (average 57) women were saved from breast cancer death, and 45–126 (average 82) were over-diagnosed. The benefit–detriment ratio using average estimates was 1:1.4, indicating that the programme saved about one life per 1–2 women with epidemiologic over-diagnosis. Conclusion The benefit–detriment ratio estimates of the Norwegian Breast Cancer Screening Program, expressed as lives saved from breast cancer death and epidemiologic over-diagnosis, should be interpreted with care due to substantial uncertainties in the estimates, and the differences in the scale of values of the events compared.
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- Solveig Hofvind
- Department of Screening, Cancer Registry of Norway, Oslo, Norway
- Faculty of Health Sciences, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Screening, Cancer Registry of Norway, Oslo, Norway
- National Advisory Unit for Women’s Health, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Research Support Services, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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Weir HK, Thompson TD, Soman A, Møller B, Leadbetter S. The past, present, and future of cancer incidence in the United States: 1975 through 2020. Cancer 2015; 121:1827-37. [PMID: 25649671 PMCID: PMC4507799 DOI: 10.1002/cncr.29258] [Citation(s) in RCA: 191] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2014] [Revised: 11/26/2014] [Accepted: 12/12/2014] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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BACKGROUND The overall age-standardized cancer incidence rate continues to decline whereas the number of cases diagnosed each year increases. Predicting cancer incidence can help to anticipate future resource needs, evaluate primary prevention strategies, and inform research. METHODS Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results data were used to estimate the number of cancers (all sites) resulting from changes in population risk, age, and size. The authors projected to 2020 nationwide age-standardized incidence rates and cases (including the top 23 cancers). RESULTS Since 1975, incident cases increased among white individuals, primarily caused by an aging white population, and among black individuals, primarily caused by an increasing black population. Between 2010 and 2020, it is expected that overall incidence rates (proxy for risk) will decrease slightly among black men and stabilize in other groups. By 2020, the authors predict annual cancer cases (all races, all sites) to increase among men by 24.1% (-3.2% risk and 27.3% age/growth) to >1 million cases, and by 20.6% among women (1.2% risk and 19.4% age/growth) to >900,000 cases. The largest increases are expected for melanoma (white individuals); cancers of the prostate, kidney, liver, and urinary bladder in males; and the lung, breast, uterus, and thyroid in females. CONCLUSIONS Overall, the authors predict cancer incidence rates/risk to stabilize for the majority of the population; however, they expect the number of cancer cases to increase by >20%. A greater emphasis on primary prevention and early detection is needed to counter the effect of an aging and growing population on the burden of cancer.
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- Hannah K. Weir
- Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
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- Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
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- Department of Registration, Cancer Registry of Norway, Oslo, Norway
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- Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
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O'Brien KM, Dwane F, Kelleher T, Sharp L, Comber H. Interval cancer rates in the Irish national breast screening programme. J Med Screen 2015; 22:136-43. [PMID: 25917389 DOI: 10.1177/0969141315580386] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2014] [Accepted: 03/11/2015] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To compare interval cancer rates from the Irish breast screening programme, BreastCheck, for the period 2000-2007 with those from other European countries. METHODS Data from BreastCheck was linked to National Cancer Registry breast cancer registrations, to calculate numbers of women screened, screen-detected cancers, and interval cancers, by year of screening, in the first and second years after screening, and by initial or subsequent screen. Estimated underlying cancer incidence from the period 1996-1999 inclusive was used to calculate proportionate incidence. We calculated the interval cancer ratio as an alternative measure of the burden of interval cancers. RESULTS There were 372,658 screening records for 178,147 women in the period 2000-2007. The overall interval rate was 9.6 per 10,000 screens. In the first year after screening, the interval cancer rate was 5.8 per 10,000 screens and this increased to 13.4 in the second year after screening. The screen detection rate for the period was 53.6 per 10,000 screened for all screens combined. Initial screens produced a higher detection rate at 66.9 per 10,000 screened compared with subsequent screens with a screen-detected rate of 41.4 per 10,000 screens. CONCLUSION Interval breast cancer rates for the first years of the programme are within acceptable limits and are comparable with those in other European programmes. Nationwide roll-out together with the adoption of digital mammography may have an impact on interval cancer rates in future years.
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- Katie M O'Brien
- National Cancer Registry, Building 6800, Airport Business Park, Kinsale Rd, Cork, Ireland
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- National Cancer Registry, Building 6800, Airport Business Park, Kinsale Rd, Cork, Ireland
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- National Cancer Registry, Building 6800, Airport Business Park, Kinsale Rd, Cork, Ireland
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- National Cancer Registry, Building 6800, Airport Business Park, Kinsale Rd, Cork, Ireland
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- National Cancer Registry, Building 6800, Airport Business Park, Kinsale Rd, Cork, Ireland
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Gangnon RE, Sprague BL, Stout NK, Alagoz O, Weedon-Fekjær H, Holford TR, Trentham-Dietz A. The contribution of mammography screening to breast cancer incidence trends in the United States: an updated age-period-cohort model. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2015; 24:905-12. [PMID: 25787716 DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.epi-14-1286] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2014] [Accepted: 02/18/2015] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The impact of screening mammography on breast cancer incidence is difficult to disentangle from cohort- and age-related effects on incidence. METHODS We developed an age-period-cohort model of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) and invasive breast cancer incidence in U.S. females using cancer registry data. Five functions were included in the model to estimate stage-specific effects for age, premenopausal birth cohorts, postmenopausal birth cohorts, period (for all years of diagnosis), and a mammography period effect limited to women ages ≥ 40 years after 1982. Incidence with and without the mammography period effect was calculated. RESULTS More recent birth cohorts have elevated underlying risk compared with earlier cohorts for both pre- and postmenopausal women. Comparing models with and without the mammography period effect showed that overall breast cancer incidence would have been 23.1% lower in the absence of mammography in 2010 (95% confidence intervals, 18.8-27.4), including 14.7% (9.5-19.3) lower for invasive breast cancer and 54.5% (47.4-59.6) lower for DCIS. Incidence of distant-staged breast cancer in 2010 would have been 29.0% (13.1-48.1) greater in the absence of mammography screening. CONCLUSIONS Mammography contributes to markedly elevated rates of DCIS and early-stage invasive cancers, but also contributes to substantial reductions in the incidence of metastatic breast cancer. IMPACT Mammography is an important tool for reducing the burden of breast cancer, but future work is needed to identify risk factors accounting for increasing underlying incidence and to distinguish between indolent and potentially lethal early-stage breast cancers that are detected via mammography.
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- Ronald E Gangnon
- Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin. Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin. Carbone Cancer Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
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- Department of Surgery and Vermont Cancer Center, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont
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- Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Carbone Cancer Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin. Department of Industrial and System Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
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- Oslo Center for Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Research Support Services, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin. Carbone Cancer Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.
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Bae JM. Overdiagnosis: epidemiologic concepts and estimation. Epidemiol Health 2015; 37:e2015004. [PMID: 25824531 PMCID: PMC4398975 DOI: 10.4178/epih/e2015004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2015] [Revised: 02/10/2015] [Accepted: 02/10/2015] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Overdiagnosis of thyroid cancer was propounded regarding the rapidly increasing incidence in South Korea. Overdiagnosis is defined as 'the detection of cancers that would never have been found were it not for the screening test', and may be an extreme form of lead bias due to indolent cancers, as is inevitable when conducting a cancer screening programme. Because it is solely an epidemiological concept, it can be estimated indirectly by phenomena such as a lack of compensatory drop in post-screening periods, or discrepancies between incidence and mortality. The erstwhile trials for quantifying the overdiagnosis in screening mammography were reviewed in order to secure the data needed to establish its prevalence in South Korea.
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- Jong-Myon Bae
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Jeju National University School of Medicine, Jeju, Korea
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Ripping TM, Verbeek ALM, Fracheboud J, de Koning HJ, van Ravesteyn NT, Broeders MJM. Overdiagnosis by mammographic screening for breast cancer studied in birth cohorts in The Netherlands. Int J Cancer 2015; 137:921-9. [PMID: 25612892 DOI: 10.1002/ijc.29452] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2014] [Accepted: 01/13/2015] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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A drawback of early detection of breast cancer through mammographic screening is the diagnosis of breast cancers that would never have become clinically detected. This phenomenon, called overdiagnosis, is ideally quantified from the breast cancer incidence of screened and unscreened cohorts of women with follow-up until death. Such cohorts do not exist, requiring other methods to estimate overdiagnosis. We are the first to quantify overdiagnosis from invasive breast cancer and ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) in birth cohorts using an age-period-cohort -model (APC-model) including variables for the initial and subsequent screening rounds and a 5-year period after leaving screening. Data on the female population and breast cancer incidence were obtained from Statistics Netherlands, "Stichting Medische registratie" and the Dutch Cancer Registry for women aged 0-99 years. Data on screening participation was obtained from the five regional screening organizations. Overdiagnosis was calculated from the excess breast cancer incidence in the screened group divided by the breast cancer incidence in presence of screening for women aged 20-99 years (population perspective) and for women in the screened-age range (individual perspective). Overdiagnosis of invasive breast cancer was 11% from the population perspective and 17% from the invited women perspective in birth cohorts screened from age 49 to 74. For invasive breast cancer and DCIS together, overdiagnosis was 14% from population perspective and 22% from invited women perspective. A major strength of an APC-model including the different phases of screening is that it allows to estimate overdiagnosis in birth cohorts, thereby preventing overestimation.
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- T M Ripping
- Department for Health Evidence, Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department for Health Evidence, Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.,Dutch Reference Center for Screening, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department for Health Evidence, Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.,Dutch Reference Center for Screening, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Andersen SB, Törnberg S, Kilpeläinen S, Lynge E, Njor SH, Von Euler-Chelpin M. Measuring the burden of interval cancers in long-standing screening mammography programmes. J Med Screen 2015; 22:83-92. [DOI: 10.1177/0969141314560386] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2014] [Accepted: 10/29/2014] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Objectives Mammography screening programme sensitivity is evaluated by comparing the interval cancer rate (ICR) with the expected breast cancer incidence without screening, ie. the proportional interval cancer rate (PICR). The PICR is usually found by extrapolating pre-screening incidence rates, whereas ICR is calculated from data available in the screening programmes. As there is no consensus regarding estimation of background incidence, we seek to validate the ICR measure against the PICR. Methods Screening data from the three mammography screening programmes of Stockholm, Copenhagen, and Funen in the period 1989-2011 provided data to calculate the ICR. The most commonly described methods of extrapolating pre-screening incidence rates to calculate the PICR were illustrated and PICRs were calculated by year and programme using these different methods and compared with the ICRs. Results PICRs varied greatly, reaching a difference of 32–34% in Stockholm, 79% in Copenhagen, and 100–106% in Funen between the highest and the lowest value, depending on which method was applied. PICRs exhibited large variations yearly and from programme to programme. ICRs did not vary to the same extent, ranging on average from 0.100 to 0.136 in the first 12-months and between 0.201 and 0.225 in the last 12-months of the two-year period after a negative screen across the three programmes. Conclusion The value of the PICR is hugely influenced by which method is applied, whereas the ICR is calculated purely on data available within programmes. We find that the PICR, the establishing indicator for sensitivity, could preferably be replaced by the ICR.
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- Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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Kouvonen A, Koskinen A, Varje P, Kokkinen L, De Vogli R, Väänänen A. National trends in main causes of hospitalization: a multi-cohort register study of the finnish working-age population, 1976-2010. PLoS One 2014; 9:e112314. [PMID: 25379723 PMCID: PMC4224429 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0112314] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2014] [Accepted: 10/13/2014] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Background The health transition theory argues that societal changes produce proportional changes in causes of disability and death. The aim of this study was to identify long-term changes in main causes of hospitalization in working-age population within a nation that has experienced considerable societal change. Methodology National trends in all-cause hospitalization and hospitalizations for the five main diagnostic categories were investigated in the data obtained from the Finnish Hospital Discharge Register. The seven-cohort sample covered the period from 1976 to 2010 and consisted of 3,769,356 randomly selected Finnish residents, each cohort representing 25% sample of population aged 18 to 64 years. Principal Findings Over the period of 35 years, the risk of hospitalization for cardiovascular diseases and respiratory diseases decreased. Hospitalization for musculoskeletal diseases increased whereas mental and behavioral hospitalizations slightly decreased. The risk of cancer hospitalization decreased marginally in men, whereas in women an upward trend was observed. Conclusions/Significance A considerable health transition related to hospitalizations and a shift in the utilization of health care services of working-age men and women took place in Finland between 1976 and 2010.
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- Anne Kouvonen
- Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Faculty in Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland
- UKCRC Centre of Excellence for Public Health (Northern Ireland), Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom
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- Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki and Tampere, Finland
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- Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki and Tampere, Finland
- Department of Philosophy, History, Culture and Art Studies, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki and Tampere, Finland
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, United States of America
- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki and Tampere, Finland
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Skyrud KD, Bray F, Møller B. A comparison of relative and cause-specific survival by cancer site, age and time since diagnosis. Int J Cancer 2013; 135:196-203. [PMID: 24302538 DOI: 10.1002/ijc.28645] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2013] [Accepted: 11/15/2013] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Relative survival (RS) estimates are widely used by cancer registries, mainly because they do not rely on the well-documented deficiencies of cause of death information. The aim of our study was to compare 5-year cause-specific survival (CSS) estimates and 5-year RS estimates for different cancer sites by age and time since diagnosis, and discuss possible reasons for observed differences. Using data from the Cancer Registry of Norway, we identified 200,008 patients diagnosed with cancer at one of the 48 sites included in this analysis during the period 1996-2005, and followed them up until the end of 2010. CSS estimates were calculated (i) considering cause of death to be the cancer that was originally diagnosed and (ii) considering the cause of death to be a cancer within the same organ system. For most cancer sites the difference between CSS and RS estimates was small (<5%). The greatest differences were seen for rarer cancers such as mediastinum and Kaposi sarcoma. Including deaths from the same organ system in the calculation of CSS further reduced the differences for many sites. For younger age groups and shorter time since diagnosis, RS and CSS estimates tended to be similar, whereas CSS estimates tended to be lower than RS estimates with longer time since diagnosis in the oldest age groups. When compared to RS estimates CSS estimates were reliable for most of the cancer sites included in our analysis. There are, however, some exceptions where CSS estimates may not be recommended, including for rarer cancers and for patients aged 85 and above.
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- Katrine Damgaard Skyrud
- Department of Registration Cancer Registry of Norway, Institute of Population-Based Cancer Research, Oslo, Norway
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Njor SH, Olsen AH, Blichert-Toft M, Schwartz W, Vejborg I, Lynge E. Overdiagnosis in screening mammography in Denmark: population based cohort study. BMJ 2013; 346:f1064. [PMID: 23444414 PMCID: PMC3582341 DOI: 10.1136/bmj.f1064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To use data from two longstanding, population based screening programmes to study overdiagnosis in screening mammography. DESIGN Population based cohort study. SETTING Copenhagen municipality (from 1991) and Funen County (from 1993), Denmark. PARTICIPANTS 57,763 women targeted by organised screening, aged 56-69 when the screening programmes started, and followed up to 2009. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Overdiagnosis of breast cancer in women targeted by screening, assessed by relative risks compared with historical control groups from screening regions, national control groups from non-screening regions, and historical national control groups. RESULTS In total, 3279 invasive breast carcinomas and ductal carcinomas in situ occurred. The start of screening led to prevalence peaks in breast cancer incidence: relative risk 2.06 (95% confidence interval 1.64 to 2.59) for Copenhagen and 1.84 (1.46 to 2.32) for Funen. During subsequent screening rounds, relative risks were slightly above unity: 1.04 (0.85 to 1.27) for Copenhagen and 1.14 (0.98 to 1.32) for Funen. A compensatory dip was seen after the end of invitation to screening: relative risk 0.80 (0.65 to 0.98) for Copenhagen and 0.67 (0.55 to 0.81) for Funen during the first four years. The relative risk of breast cancer accumulated over the entire follow-up period was 1.06 (0.90 to 1.25) for Copenhagen and 1.01 (0.93 to 1.10) for Funen. Relative risks for participants corrected for selection bias were estimated to be 1.08 for Copenhagen and 1.02 for Funen; for participants followed for at least eight years after the end of screening, they were 1.05 and 1.01. A pooled estimate gave 1.040 (0.99 to 1.09) for all targeted women and 1.023 (0.97 to 1.08) for targeted women followed for at least eight years after the end of screening. CONCLUSIONS On the basis of combined data from the two screening programmes, this study indicated that overdiagnosis most likely amounted to 2.3% (95% confidence interval -3% to 8%) in targeted women. Among participants, it was most likely 1-5%. At least eight years after the end of screening were needed to compensate for the excess incidence during screening.
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- Sisse Helle Njor
- Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Østre Farimagsgade 5, DK 1014 Copenhagen K, Denmark
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Falk RS, Hofvind S, Skaane P, Haldorsen T. Overdiagnosis among women attending a population-based mammography screening program. Int J Cancer 2013; 133:705-12. [PMID: 23355313 PMCID: PMC3708102 DOI: 10.1002/ijc.28052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2012] [Revised: 12/15/2012] [Accepted: 01/04/2013] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Increased incidence of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) and invasive breast cancer (IBC) after introduction of organized screening has prompted debate about overdiagnosis. The aim was to examine the excess in incidence of DCIS and IBC during the screening period and the deficit after women left the program, and thereby to estimate the proportion of overdiagnosis. Women invited to the Norwegian Breast Cancer Screening Program were analyzed for DCIS or IBC during the period 1995-2009. Incidence rate ratios (IRRs) were calculated for attended vs. never attended women. The IRRs were adjusted by Mantel-Haenszel (MH) method and applied to a set of reference rates and a reference population to estimate the proportion of overdiagnosis during the women's lifespan after the age of 50 years. A total of 702,131 women were invited to the program. An excess of DCIS and IBC was observed among women who attended screening during the screening period; prevalently invited women aged 50-51 years had a MH IRR of 1.86 (95% CI 1.65-2.09) and subsequently invited women aged 52-69 years had a MH IRR of 1.56 (95% CI 1.45-1.68). In women aged 70-79 years, a deficit of 30% (MH IRR 0.70, 95% CI 0.62-0.80) was observed 1-10 years after they left the screening program. The estimated proportion of overdiagnosis varied from 10 to 20% depending on outcome and whether the women were invited or actually screened. The results highlight the need for individual data with longitudinal screening history and long-term follow-up as a basis for estimating overdiagnosis.
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Weedon-Fekjær H, Bakken K, Vatten LJ, Tretli S. Understanding recent trends in incidence of invasive breast cancer in Norway: age-period-cohort analysis based on registry data on mammography screening and hormone treatment use. BMJ 2012; 344:e299. [PMID: 22290099 PMCID: PMC3268754 DOI: 10.1136/bmj.e299] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To quantify the separate contributions of menopausal hormone treatment and mammography screening activities on trends in incidence of invasive breast cancer between 1987 and 2008. DESIGN Population study using aggregated data analysed by an extended age-period-cohort model. SETTING Norway. Population Norwegian women aged 30-90 between 1987 and 2008, including 50,102 newly diagnosed cases of invasive breast cancer. Main outcomes measures Attributable proportions of mammography screening and hormone treatment to recent incidence of invasive breast cancer, and the remaining variation in incidence after adjustment for mammography screening and hormone treatment. RESULTS The incidence of invasive breast cancer in Norway increased steadily until 2002, levelled off, and then declined from 2006. All non-linear changes in incidence were explained by use of hormone treatment and mammography screening activities, with about similar contributions of each factor. In 2002, when the incidence among women aged 50-69 was highest, an estimated 23% of the cases in that age group could be attributed to mammography screening and 27% to use of hormone treatment. CONCLUSIONS Changes in incidence trends of invasive breast cancer since the early 1990s may be fully attributed to mammography screening and hormone treatment, with about similar contributions of each factor.
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- Harald Weedon-Fekjær
- Department of Etiological Research, Cancer Registry of Norway, Institute of Population-based Cancer Research, PO Box 5313 Majorstuen, 0304 Oslo, Norway.
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Trends in invasive breast cancer incidence among French women not exposed to organized mammography screening: an age-period-cohort analysis. Cancer Epidemiol 2011; 35:521-5. [PMID: 21621498 DOI: 10.1016/j.canep.2011.04.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2010] [Revised: 02/22/2011] [Accepted: 04/12/2011] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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BACKGROUND The long tenure of the Doubs cancer registry (France) and the late implementation of a mass screening program provide a unique opportunity to assess the relative contributions of age, period and cohort effects to the increase in female invasive breast cancer incidence, while avoiding the influence of an organized screening program. METHODS Population and incidence data were provided for the Doubs region during the 1978-2003 period. Breast cancer counts and person-years were tabulated into 1-year classes by age and time period. Age-period-cohort models with parametric smooth functions were fitted to the data, assuming a Poisson distribution for the number of observed cases. RESULTS A total of 5688 incident cases of invasive breast cancer in women were diagnosed in women aged 30-84 years in the Doubs region between 1978 and 2003. The annual percentage increase in incidence is 2.09%. Age effects rise dramatically until age 50, and at a slower pace afterwards. Large cohort curvature effects (p<10(-6)), show departure from linear trends, with a significant peak for women born around 1940. Period curvature effects are lower in magnitude (p=0.01). CONCLUSION Both cohort and period effects are involved in the marked increase in breast cancer incidence over a 25-year period in the Doubs region. Although the future trend for breast cancer incidence is difficult to predict, the introduction of an organized screening program, and the sharp decline in hormone replacement therapy use will likely contribute to period effects in future analyses.
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Cunningham R, Shaw C, Blakely T, Atkinson J, Sarfati D. Ethnic and socioeconomic trends in breast cancer incidence in New Zealand. BMC Cancer 2010; 10:674. [PMID: 21138590 PMCID: PMC3017063 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-10-674] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2010] [Accepted: 12/07/2010] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Breast cancer incidence varies between social groups, but differences have not been thoroughly examined in New Zealand. The objectives of this study are to determine whether trends in breast cancer incidence varied by ethnicity and socioeconomic position between 1981 and 2004 in New Zealand, and to assess possible risk factor explanations. METHODS Five cohorts of the entire New Zealand population for 1981-86, 1986-1991, 1991-1996, 1996-2001, and 2001-2004 were created, and probabilistically linked to cancer registry records, allowing direct determination of ethnic and socioeconomic trends in breast cancer incidence. RESULTS Breast cancer rates increased across all ethnic and socioeconomic groups between 1981 and 2004. Māori women consistently had the highest age standardised rates, and the difference between Māori and European/Other women increased from 7% in 1981-6 to 24% in 2001-4. Pacific and Asian women had consistently lower rates of breast cancer than European/Other women over the time period studied (12% and 28% lower respectively when pooled over time), although young Pacific women had slightly higher incidence rates than young European/other women. A gradient between high and low income women was evident, with high income women having breast cancer rates approximately 10% higher and this difference did not change significantly over time. CONCLUSIONS Differences in breast cancer incidence between European and Pacific women and between socioeconomic groups are explicable in terms of known risk factors. However no straightforward explanation for the relatively high incidence amongst Māori is apparent. Further research to explore high Māori breast cancer rates may contribute to reducing the burden of breast cancer amongst Māori women, as well as improving our understanding of the aetiology of breast cancer.
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- Ruth Cunningham
- Department of Public Health, University of Otago Wellington, PO Box 7343, Wellington 6242, New Zealand
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- Department of Public Health, University of Otago Wellington, PO Box 7343, Wellington 6242, New Zealand
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- Department of Public Health, University of Otago Wellington, PO Box 7343, Wellington 6242, New Zealand
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- Department of Public Health, University of Otago Wellington, PO Box 7343, Wellington 6242, New Zealand
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- Department of Public Health, University of Otago Wellington, PO Box 7343, Wellington 6242, New Zealand
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Martinez-Alonso M, Vilaprinyo E, Marcos-Gragera R, Rue M. Breast cancer incidence and overdiagnosis in Catalonia (Spain). Breast Cancer Res 2010; 12:R58. [PMID: 20682042 PMCID: PMC2949650 DOI: 10.1186/bcr2620] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2010] [Revised: 07/13/2010] [Accepted: 08/03/2010] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Introduction Early detection of breast cancer (BC) with mammography may cause overdiagnosis and overtreatment, detecting tumors which would remain undiagnosed during a lifetime. The aims of this study were: first, to model invasive BC incidence trends in Catalonia (Spain) taking into account reproductive and screening data; and second, to quantify the extent of BC overdiagnosis. Methods We modeled the incidence of invasive BC using a Poisson regression model. Explanatory variables were: age at diagnosis and cohort characteristics (completed fertility rate, percentage of women that use mammography at age 50, and year of birth). This model also was used to estimate the background incidence in the absence of screening. We used a probabilistic model to estimate the expected BC incidence if women in the population used mammography as reported in health surveys. The difference between the observed and expected cumulative incidences provided an estimate of overdiagnosis. Results Incidence of invasive BC increased, especially in cohorts born from 1940 to 1955. The biggest increase was observed in these cohorts between the ages of 50 to 65 years, where the final BC incidence rates more than doubled the initial ones. Dissemination of mammography was significantly associated with BC incidence and overdiagnosis. Our estimates of overdiagnosis ranged from 0.4% to 46.6%, for women born around 1935 and 1950, respectively. Conclusions Our results support the existence of overdiagnosis in Catalonia attributed to mammography usage, and the limited malignant potential of some tumors may play an important role. Women should be better informed about this risk. Research should be oriented towards personalized screening and risk assessment tools.
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- Montserrat Martinez-Alonso
- Basic Medical Sciences Department, Biomedical Research Institut of Lleida (IRBLLEIDA), Alcalde Rovira Roure 80, Lleida, 25198, Catalonia, Spain
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Tryggvadóttir L, Gislum M, Bray F, Klint A, Hakulinen T, Storm HH, Engholm G. Trends in the survival of patients diagnosed with breast cancer in the Nordic countries 1964-2003 followed up to the end of 2006. Acta Oncol 2010; 49:624-31. [PMID: 20429724 DOI: 10.3109/02841860903575323] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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BACKGROUND Breast cancer is the leading cancer among women worldwide in terms of both incidence and mortality. European patients have generally high 5-year relative survival ratios, and the Nordic countries, except for Denmark, have ratios among the highest. MATERIAL AND METHODS Based on the NORDCAN database we present trends in age-standardised incidence and mortality rates of invasive breast cancer in the Nordic countries, alongside 5- and 10-year relative survival for the period of diagnosis 1964-2003 followed up to the end of 2006. Excess mortality rates are also provided for varying follow-up intervals after diagnosis. The analysis is confined to invasive breast cancer in Nordic women. RESULTS Incidence increased rapidly in all five countries, whereas mortality remained almost unchanged. Both incidence and mortality rates were highest in Denmark. Between 1964 and 2003 both 5- and 10-year relative survival increased by 20-30 percentage points in all countries, and 10-year survival remained around 10 percentage points lower than 5-year survival. Relative survival was lowest in Denmark throughout the period, with a 5-year survival of 79% for years 1999-2003, but 83-87% in the other countries. From 1964 the youngest women had the highest survival ratios up until the introduction of screening, when a shift occurred towards higher survival among age groups 50-59 and 60-69 in each country, except for Denmark. Excess death rates during the first months after diagnosis were highest in Denmark. CONCLUSION Breast cancer survival is high and rising in the Nordic countries, and probably relates to the early implementation of organised mammography screening in each country except Denmark and a high and relatively uniform standard of living, diagnosis and treatment. Denmark stands out with higher mortality and poorer survival. The major determinants may include a failure to instigate national breast screening and a greater co-morbidity resulting from a higher prevalence of both tobacco smoking and alcohol consumption.
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Weedon-Fekjaer H, Tretli S, Aalen OO. Estimating screening test sensitivity and tumour progression using tumour size and time since previous screening. Stat Methods Med Res 2010; 19:507-27. [PMID: 20356856 DOI: 10.1177/0962280209359860] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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As mammography screening aims to improve the prognosis through earlier detection/treatment, tumour progression and screening test sensitivity (STS) represent key parameters in the evaluation of screening programs. We will here study some methods for estimation of tumour progression and STS, and show how previously used methods can be combined and developed to utilise more of the data available in modern screening programs. Weedon-Fekjaer et al. recently suggested a study design using interview data about time since previous screening to estimate tumour progression and STS in a stepwise Markov model. While useful, the approach does not utilise tumour size measurements, nor link tumour progression to tumour size. Hence, we will here propose formulas for estimating tumour progression and STS using a continuous tumour growth model. To estimate tumour progression and STS, tumour growth curves are followed from one screening to the next, and probabilities for all combinations of tumour sizes at repeated screening examinations calculated. Based on the probabilities for screening detection on subsequent screening examinations, maximum likelihood estimates are calculated. Applied to Norwegian data, the new approach gives similar results to previously published results based on interval data, confirming the earlier estimated large variation in tumour growth rates.
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Hébert JR, Daguise VG, Hurley DM, Wilkerson RC, Mosley CM, Adams SA, Puett R, Burch JB, Steck SE, Bolick-Aldrich SW. Mapping cancer mortality-to-incidence ratios to illustrate racial and sex disparities in a high-risk population. Cancer 2009; 115:2539-52. [PMID: 19296515 DOI: 10.1002/cncr.24270] [Citation(s) in RCA: 107] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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BACKGROUND Comparisons of incidence and mortality rates are the metrics used most commonly to define cancer-related racial disparities. In the US, and particularly in South Carolina, these largely disfavor African Americans (AAs). Computed from readily available data sources, the mortality-to-incidence rate ratio (MIR) provides a population-based indicator of survival. METHODS South Carolina Central Cancer Registry incidence data and Vital Registry death data were used to construct MIRs. ArcGIS 9.2 mapping software was used to map cancer MIRs by sex and race for 8 Health Regions within South Carolina for all cancers combined and for breast, cervical, colorectal, lung, oral, and prostate cancers. RESULTS Racial differences in cancer MIRs were observed for both sexes for all cancers combined and for most individual sites. The largest racial differences were observed for female breast, prostate, and oral cancers, and AAs had MIRs nearly twice those of European Americans (EAs). CONCLUSIONS Comparing and mapping race- and sex-specific cancer MIRs provides a powerful way to observe the scope of the cancer problem. By using these methods, in the current study, AAs had much higher cancer MIRs compared with EAs for most cancer sites in nearly all regions of South Carolina. Future work must be directed at explaining and addressing the underlying differences in cancer outcomes by region and race. MIR mapping allows for pinpointing areas where future research has the greatest likelihood of identifying the causes of large, persistent, cancer-related disparities. Other regions with access to high-quality data may find it useful to compare MIRs and conduct MIR mapping.
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- James R Hébert
- South Carolina Statewide Cancer Prevention and Control Program, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA.
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Jørgensen KJ, Gøtzsche PC. Overdiagnosis in publicly organised mammography screening programmes: systematic review of incidence trends. BMJ 2009; 339:b2587. [PMID: 19589821 PMCID: PMC2714679 DOI: 10.1136/bmj.b2587] [Citation(s) in RCA: 357] [Impact Index Per Article: 23.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To estimate the extent of overdiagnosis (the detection of cancers that will not cause death or symptoms) in publicly organised screening programmes. DESIGN Systematic review of published trends in incidence of breast cancer before and after the introduction of mammography screening. DATA SOURCES PubMed (April 2007), reference lists, and authors. Review methods One author extracted data on incidence of breast cancer (including carcinoma in situ), population size, screening uptake, time periods, and age groups, which were checked independently by the other author. Linear regression was used to estimate trends in incidence before and after the introduction of screening and in older, previously screened women. Meta-analysis was used to estimate the extent of overdiagnosis. RESULTS Incidence data covering at least seven years before screening and seven years after screening had been fully implemented, and including both screened and non-screened age groups, were available from the United Kingdom; Manitoba, Canada; New South Wales, Australia; Sweden; and parts of Norway. The implementation phase with its prevalence peak was excluded and adjustment made for changing background incidence and compensatory drops in incidence among older, previously screened women. Overdiagnosis was estimated at 52% (95% confidence interval 46% to 58%). Data from three countries showed a drop in incidence as the women exceeded the age limit for screening, but the reduction was small and the estimate of overdiagnosis was compensated for in this review. CONCLUSIONS The increase in incidence of breast cancer was closely related to the introduction of screening and little of this increase was compensated for by a drop in incidence of breast cancer in previously screened women. One in three breast cancers detected in a population offered organised screening is overdiagnosed.
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- Karsten Juhl Jørgensen
- The Nordic Cochrane Centre, Rigshospitalet, Dept 3343, Blegdamsvej 9, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Seigneurin A, Colonna M, Remontet L, Delafosse P, Ecochard R. Artefact-free trends in breast cancer incidence over two decades in a whole French Département. Breast 2008; 17:580-6. [DOI: 10.1016/j.breast.2008.07.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2008] [Revised: 07/16/2008] [Accepted: 07/16/2008] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Weedon-Fekjaer H, Lindqvist BH, Vatten LJ, Aalen OO, Tretli S. Estimating mean sojourn time and screening sensitivity using questionnaire data on time since previous screening. J Med Screen 2008; 15:83-90. [PMID: 18573776 DOI: 10.1258/jms.2008.007071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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OBJECTIVES Mean sojourn time (MST) and screening test sensitivity (STS), is usually estimated by Markov models using incidence data from the first screening round and the interval between screening examinations. However, several screening programmes do not have full registration of cancers submerging after screening, and increased use of opportunistic screening over time can raise questions regarding the quality of interval cancer registration. Methods/settings Based on the earlier used Markov model, formulas for expected number of cases given time since former screening activity was developed. Using questionnaire data for 336,533 women in the Norwegian Breast Cancer Screening Programme (NBCSP), mean square regression estimates of MST and STS were calculated. RESULTS In contrast to the previously used method, the new approach gave satisfactory model fit. MST was estimated to 5.6 years for women aged 50-59 years, and 6.9 years for women aged 60-69 years, and STS was estimated to 55% and 60%, respectively. Attempts to add separate parameters for breast cancer incidence without screening, or previous STS, resulted in wide confidence intervals if estimated separately, and non-identifiably if combined. CONCLUSION Previously published results of long MST and low screen test sensitivity were confirmed with the new approach. Questionnaire data on time since previous screening can be used to estimate MST and STS, but the approach is sensitive to relaxing the assumptions regarding the expected breast cancer incidence without screening and constant STS over time.
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- Harald Weedon-Fekjaer
- Kreftregisteret, Institute of Population-based Cancer Research, Montebello, N-0310 Oslo, Norway.
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Brown SBF, Morrison DS, Cooke TG. Increasing incidence of breast cancer: distinguishing between the effects of birth cohort and a national breast screening programme. Breast Cancer Res Treat 2008; 116:603-7. [DOI: 10.1007/s10549-008-0205-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2008] [Accepted: 09/19/2008] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Waller M, Moss S, Watson J, Møller H. The effect of mammographic screening and hormone replacement therapy use on breast cancer incidence in England and Wales. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2008; 16:2257-61. [PMID: 18006913 DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.epi-07-0262] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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DESIGN An extended age-period-cohort model was used to estimate the effect of mammographic screening and hormone replacement therapy on breast cancer incidence in England and Wales between 1971 and 2001. RESULTS Incidence of breast cancer increased noticeably in women attending screening for the first time compared with nonattenders [rate ratio (RR), 1.73; 95% confidence interval (95% CI), 1.67-1.80]. Incidence was also 18% to 35% higher in attenders relative to nonattenders in subsequent screening rounds. In the first 3 years after women left the screening program, rates of breast cancer were reduced (RR, 0.88; 95% CI, 0.86-0.90), but by 7 to 9 years after screening, the rates had returned to the expected level (RR, 0.97; 95% CI, 0.94-1.00). The estimated RR of hormone replacement therapy on breast cancer incidence was 1.55 (95% CI, 1.37-1.75). Screening is estimated to increase a woman's lifetime risk of being diagnosed with breast cancer from 7.8% to 8.6%. CONCLUSIONS It is estimated that in the absence of screening, rates of breast cancer incidence would have continued to increase. A study at the individual subject level would be beneficial to assess the level of overdiagnosis associated with breast cancer screening.
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- Michael Waller
- Cancer Screening Evaluation Unit, Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, United Kingdom
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Weedon-Fekjaer H, Lindqvist BH, Vatten LJ, Aalen OO, Tretli S. Breast cancer tumor growth estimated through mammography screening data. Breast Cancer Res 2008; 10:R41. [PMID: 18466608 PMCID: PMC2481488 DOI: 10.1186/bcr2092] [Citation(s) in RCA: 120] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2007] [Revised: 03/14/2008] [Accepted: 05/08/2008] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Introduction Knowledge of tumor growth is important in the planning and evaluation of screening programs, clinical trials, and epidemiological studies. Studies of tumor growth rates in humans are usually based on small and selected samples. In the present study based on the Norwegian Breast Cancer Screening Program, tumor growth was estimated from a large population using a new estimating procedure/model. Methods A likelihood-based estimating procedure was used, where both tumor growth and the screen test sensitivity were modeled as continuously increasing functions of tumor size. The method was applied to cancer incidence and tumor measurement data from 395,188 women aged 50 to 69 years. Results Tumor growth varied considerably between subjects, with 5% of tumors taking less than 1.2 months to grow from 10 mm to 20 mm in diameter, and another 5% taking more than 6.3 years. The mean time a tumor needed to grow from 10 mm to 20 mm in diameter was estimated as 1.7 years, increasing with age. The screen test sensitivity was estimated to increase sharply with tumor size, rising from 26% at 5 mm to 91% at 10 mm. Compared with previously used Markov models for tumor progression, the applied model gave considerably higher model fit (85% increased predictive power) and provided estimates directly linked to tumor size. Conclusion Screening data with tumor measurements can provide population-based estimates of tumor growth and screen test sensitivity directly linked to tumor size. There is a large variation in breast cancer tumor growth, with faster growth among younger women.
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- Harald Weedon-Fekjaer
- Department of Etiological Research, Cancer Registry of Norway, Institute of Population-based Cancer Research, Montebello, N-0310 Oslo, Norway.
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Do cancer predictions work? Eur J Cancer 2008; 44:448-53. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ejca.2007.11.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2007] [Revised: 10/29/2007] [Accepted: 11/09/2007] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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BACKGROUND Family history of a disease may point to its heritable or environmental etiology. It can be described by the proportion of the familial disease, i.e. same disease in two or more family members. A family history always needs to be specified as to the number of generations covered and their ages. PATIENTS AND METHODS Proportions of site-specific familial cancers (familial proportions) were calculated using the Swedish Family-Cancer Database, the largest dataset of its kind in the world, with cancers from the Swedish Cancer Registry. Familial proportions refer to the offspring population up to age 72 years when their parents or siblings were diagnosed with a concordant (same) cancer. RESULTS A total of 34 cancer sites and 205 638 cases were covered. Prostate cancer showed the highest familial proportion of 20.15%, followed by breast (13.58%) and colorectal (12.80%) cancers. Salivary gland cancers showed the lowest familial proportion of 0.15%, but bone, laryngeal, anal, connective tissue and other genital cancers also remained <1%. The familial proportion depended on the prevalence of the particular cancer and on its familial risk. CONCLUSIONS The derived familial proportions can justifiably be used in statements 'X% of the patients had a family history of the cancer'.
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- K Hemminki
- Division of Molecular Genetic Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.
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Hemminki K, Ji J, Försti A, Sundquist J, Lenner P. Survival in breast cancer is familial. Breast Cancer Res Treat 2007; 110:177-82. [PMID: 17674192 DOI: 10.1007/s10549-007-9692-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2007] [Accepted: 07/13/2007] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Several earlier studies have assessed survival in breast cancer based on familial risk of this disease. The results have been conflicting and suggest that the risk and prognostic factors of cancer are largely distinct. As a novel concept, we searched for familial clustering of survival, i.e., concordance of survival among family members. We used the nation-wide Swedish Family-Cancer Database to estimate hazard ratios (HRs) for cause-specific and overall survival in invasive breast cancer. HR shows the probability of death in the study group compared the reference group. The study covered 1277 mother-daughter pairs with familial breast cancer. Their median follow-up times for survival ranged from 96 to 122 months. When the survival in daughters was analyzed according to the mothers' length of survival, there was a concordance of prognosis. The HR was 0.65 in daughters whose mothers had survived > or = 120 months compared to daughters whose mothers had survived less than 36 months (P-value for trend 0.02). When the analysis was reversed and HRs were derived for mothers, the results were essentially similar (P-value for trend 0.02). The survival did not differ between patients with familial or sporadic breast cancer. The results are consistent in showing that both good and poor survival in breast cancer aggregates in families, which is a novel population-level finding for any cancer. The consistency of the results suggests that the prognosis in breast cancer is in part heritable which is likely to be explained by yet unknown genetic mechanisms.
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- Kari Hemminki
- Division of Molecular Genetic Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 580, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.
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Dieye M, Veronique-Baudin J, Draganescu C, Azaloux H. Cancer incidence in Martinique: a model of epidemiological transition. Eur J Cancer Prev 2007; 16:95-101. [PMID: 17297384 DOI: 10.1097/01.cej.0000236246.78736.51] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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In this paper, we present data from the Martinique Cancer Registry for the period 1981-2000 and interpret cancer incidence trends in the light of risk factor patterns. In Martinique, cancer data are available from 1981. The sources of information are represented by insurance records, medical evacuations, hospitals and laboratory files. We performed a Mantel-Haenszel chi test stratified on age in order to assess time trends and to compare incidence rates between men and women over the whole period. A total of 8992 incidents of cancer cases were recorded during the last 20 years among men and 6832 in women. (The overall age-standardized incidence rate is 222 per 10 person-years for men and 145 per 10 person-years for women.) The most common cancers are prostate cancer in men (104 per 10 person-years) and breast cancer in women (42 per 10 person-years). Except for thyroid and salivary gland cancer, men experienced higher incidence rates for all other cancers. Incidence of prostate cancer in men, breast cancer in women and colorectal cancer in both sexes strongly increased between 1981-1990 and 1991-2000, whereas no significant variation was observed for that of all digestive cancers together. Among women, cervical cancer incidence strongly decreased. These results demonstrate that Martinique tends to have the same cancer risk profile as France Mainland with, however, higher incidence rates for cervical, stomach and prostate cancer. Changes in lifestyle and greater accessibility to diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, in particular screening, have strongly contributed to the 'epidemiological transition' observed.
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- Moustapha Dieye
- Martinique Cancer Registry, Centre d'affaires de Californie, Lamentin, Martinique, West Indies
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Hemminki K, Justo LB. Reply to “No major impact of mammography screening on the age specific incidence rates of breast cancer in the Netherlands”. Int J Cancer 2006. [DOI: 10.1002/ijc.22254] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Ji J, Hemminki K. Risk for contralateral breast cancers in a population covered by mammography: effects of family history, age at diagnosis and histology. Breast Cancer Res Treat 2006; 105:229-36. [PMID: 17115107 DOI: 10.1007/s10549-006-9445-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2006] [Accepted: 10/25/2006] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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BACKGROUND Improved survival for breast cancer is increasing the likelihood of contralateral tumors. Mammographic screening is partially contributing to the survival advantage, while changing many aspects of breast cancer presentation, including age at diagnosis, histology and familial risk. As mammography has become widely used, it is important to quantify the risks for contralateral breast cancer in a population with a national access to mammographic screening service. METHODS The nation-wide Swedish Family-Cancer Database was used to calculate risks for contralateral breast cancer between years 1990 (1993) and 2002. The standardized incidence ratio (SIR) measured the risk for contralateral breast compared to first breast cancer. RESULTS The risks for contralateral breast cancer ranged between 1.85 and 3.79, and they tended to be higher when in situ cancer was diagnosed. Family history and early diagnosis of first cancer increased the risks for contralateral breast cancer, approximately equally for invasive and in situ cancers. The risk for contralateral in situ cancer was 9.01 following two independent invasive cancers. The risk for the same, concordant histology between the first and the contralateral cancer was higher than that for discordant histologies. The risks for concordant histologies were particularly high for mucinous (12.16), comedo (11.74) and lobular (5.06) tumors. When the first lobular cancer was diagnosed before age 45 years, the risk for contralateral lobular cancer was 32.20. CONCLUSION In situ breast cancer poses an approximately equally high risk as invasive cancer. Family history and earlier age of onset are associated with high risks needing clinical attention.
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- Jianguang Ji
- Center for Family Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Alfred Nobels Alle 12, 14183 Huddinge, Sweden.
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Seppänen J, Heinävaara S, Hakulinen T. Influence of alternative mammographic screening scenarios on breast cancer incidence predictions (Finland). Cancer Causes Control 2006; 17:1135-44. [PMID: 17006719 DOI: 10.1007/s10552-006-0055-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2005] [Accepted: 06/22/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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BACKGROUND A population-based early detection programme for breast cancer has been in progress in Finland since 1987. Recently, detailed information about actual screening invitation schemes in 1987-2001 has become available in electronic form, which enables more specific modeling of breast cancer incidence. OBJECTIVES To present a methodology for taking into account historical municipality-specific schemes of mass screening when constructing predictions for breast cancer incidence. To provide predictions for numbers of new cancer cases and incidence rates according to alternative future screening policies. METHODS Observed municipality-specific screening invitation schemes in Finland during 1987-2001 were linked together with breast cancer data. The incidence rate during the observation period was analyzed using Poisson regression, and this was done separately for localized and non-localized cancers. For modeling, the screening programme was divided into seven different components. Alternative screening scenarios for future mass-screening practices in Finland were created and an appropriate model for incidence prediction was defined. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION Expanding the screening programme would increase the incidence of localized breast cancers; the biggest increase would be obtained by expanding from women aged 50-59 to 50-69. The impacts of changes in the screening practices on predictions for non-localized cancers would be minor.
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- Johanna Seppänen
- Finnish Cancer Registry, Institute for Statistical and Epidemiological Cancer Research, Liisankatu 21 B, FIN-00170, Helsinki, Finland.
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Olsen AH, Agbaje OF, Myles JP, Lynge E, Duffy SW. Overdiagnosis, Sojourn Time, and Sensitivity in the Copenhagen Mammography Screening Program. Breast J 2006; 12:338-42. [PMID: 16848843 DOI: 10.1111/j.1075-122x.2006.00272.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The goal of this research was to estimate the overdiagnosis at the first and second screens of the mammography screening program in Copenhagen, Denmark. This study involves a mammography service screening program in Copenhagen, Denmark, with 35,123 women screened at least once. We fit multistate models to the screening data, including preclinical incidence of progressive cancers and nonprogressive (i.e., overdiagnosed) cancers. We estimated mean sojourn time as 2.7 years (95% confidence interval [CI] 2.2-3.1) and screening test sensitivity as 100% (95% CI 99.8-100). Overdiagnosis was estimated to be 7.8% (95% CI 0.3-26.5) at the first screen and 0.5% (95% CI 0.02-2.1) at the second screen. This corresponds to 4.8% of all cancers diagnosed among participants during the first two invitation rounds and following intervals. A modest overdiagnosis was estimated for the Copenhagen screening program, deriving almost exclusively from the first screen. The CIs were very broad, however, and estimates from larger datasets are warranted.
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- Anne Helene Olsen
- Cancer Research UK, Department of Epidemiology, Mathematics, and Statistics, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Charterhouse Square, London, United Kingdom.
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Svendsen AL, Olsen AH, von Euler-Chelpin M, Lynge E. Breast cancer incidence after the introduction of mammography screening: what should be expected? Cancer 2006; 106:1883-90. [PMID: 16572411 DOI: 10.1002/cncr.21823] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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BACKGROUND A prevalence peak is expected in breast cancer incidence when mammography screening begins, but afterward the incidence still may be elevated compared with prescreening levels. It is important to determine whether this is due to overdiagnosis (ie, the detection of asymptomatic disease that would otherwise not have arisen clinically). In the current study, the authors examined breast cancer incidence after the introduction of mammography screening in Denmark. METHODS Denmark has 2 regional screening programs targeting women ages 50 years to 69 years. The programs were initiated in 1991 and 1993, respectively. No screening takes place in the 13 other Danish regions. Data regarding incident breast cancers detected between 1979 and 2001 were retrieved from the Danish Cancer Registry for each screening region and for the rest of Denmark, and time trends in rates for women ages 50 years to 69 years were compared. From 1 program, individual screening data were used to analyze breast cancer incidence in women who were never screened, those who were screened for the first time, or those who previously were screened. RESULTS The incidence of breast cancer was found to have increased regardless of screening. In the screening regions, a marked prevalence peak was observed, and the incidence hereafter was compatible with the level indicated by the 95% confidence limits for the regression curves for the rates in the prescreening period, taking into account the artificial ageing in the program, the influx of newcomers, and variations in the data. Women who had undergone previous screening were found to have the same incidence of breast cancer as women who were never screened. CONCLUSIONS The data from the current study do not provide evidence of overdiagnosis of invasive breast cancer in the 2 Danish screening programs or, if overdiagnosis was found to occur, it was only of limited magnitude.
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- Henrik Møller
- King's College London, Thames Cancer Registry, London SE1 3QD.
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