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Reproductive factors and risk of contralateral breast cancer by BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation status: results from the WECARE study |
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| Authors: | Jenny N. Poynter Bryan Langholz Joan Largent Lene Mellemkjær Leslie Bernstein Kathleen E. Malone Charles F. Lynch Åke Borg Patrick Concannon Sharon N. Teraoka Shanyan Xue Anh T. Diep Therese Törngren Colin B. Begg Marinela Capanu Robert W. Haile Jonine L. Bernstein |
| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA 2. Division of Pediatric Epidemiology and Clinical Research, University of Minnesota, 420 Delaware St SE, Moos 1-117, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA 3. Department of Epidemiology, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA 4. Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Denmark 5. Division of Cancer Etiology, Department of Population Sciences, City of Hope National Medical Center/Beckman Research Institute, Duarte, CA, USA 6. Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA 7. Department of Epidemiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 8. Department of Oncology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden 9. Center for Public Health Genomics and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA 10. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA |
| Abstract: | ObjectiveReproductive factors, such as early age at menarche, late age at menopause, and nulliparity are known risk factors for breast cancer. Previously, we reported these factors to be associated with risk of developing contralateral breast cancer (CBC). In this study, we evaluated the association between these factors and CBC risk among BRCA1 and BRCA2 (BRCA1/2) mutation carriers and non-carriers.MethodsThe WECARE Study is a population-based multi-center case–control study of 705 women with CBC (cases) and 1,397 women with unilateral breast cancer (controls). All participants were screened for BRCA1/2 mutations and 181 carriers were identified. Conditional logistic regression models were used to evaluate associations between reproductive factors and CBC for mutation carriers and non-carriers.ResultsNone of the associations between reproductive factors and CBC risk differed between mutation carriers and non-carriers. The increase in risk with younger age at menarche and decrease in risk in women with more than two full-term pregnancies seen in non-carriers were not significantly different in carriers (adjusted RRs = 1.31, 95% CI 0.65–2.65 and 0.53, 95% CI 0.19–1.51, respectively). No significant associations between the other reproductive factors and CBC risk were observed in mutation carriers or non-carriers.ConclusionFor two reproductive factors previously shown to be associated with CBC risk, we observed similar associations for BRCA1/2 carriers. This suggests that reproductive variables that affect CBC risk may have similar effects in mutation carriers and non-carriers. |
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