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ArticleCancer medicine2018

The bidirectional association among female hormone-related cancers: breast, ovary, and uterine corpus.

Min-Chi Chen, Kuan-Der Lee, Chang-Hsien Lu, Ting-Yao Wang, Shih-Hao Huang, Chao-Yu Chen

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Article in Cancer medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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Min-Chi ChenDepartment of Public Health, Biostatistics Consulting Center, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0002-0211-252X
Kuan-Der LeeDivision of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
Chang-Hsien LuDepartment of Hematology & Oncology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chiayi, Taiwan.
Ting-Yao WangDepartment of Hematology & Oncology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chiayi, Taiwan.
Shih-Hao HuangDepartment of Public Health, Biostatistics Consulting Center, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
Chao-Yu ChenDepartment of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chiayi, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0001-6111-2602
Chiayi Chang Gung Memorial Hospital · TWChang Gung University of Science and Technology · TWTaipei Medical University Hospital · TW

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Breast, ovarian, and uterine corpus cancers are common female cancers and categorized as hormone-related diseases. Previous studies reported a unidirectional relationship for each cancer, but few studied the reciprocal association in the same cohort. A population-based study was carried out in Taiwan to test the hypothesis that there are pairwise bidirectional associations among these cancers. Using the same cohort of 110,112 cases with primary female cancers including uterine corpus cancer (11,146 cases), ovarian cancer (12,139 cases), or breast cancer (86,827 cases) from the Taiwan Cancer Registry from 1979 to 2008, the pairwise risks of second cancer among uterine corpus, ovary, and breast cancer cases were evaluated by standardized incidence ratios (SIRs) and the corresponding 95% confidence intervals (CIs) to quantify the excess of second malignancies. A reciprocal relationship was found for these three female cancers, particularly most prominent between uterine and ovarian cancers, followed by breast and uterine cancers as well as breast and ovarian cancers. The overall risk of second cancers was highest within the first 5 years after the diagnosis of primary cancer. The bidirectional relationships suggest common risk factors among these three female cancers. This is the largest cohort study to focus on the bidirectional associations among hormone-related cancers in Asian women, and these results could aid in the development of early prevention strategies and follow-up surveillance programs.

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Breast NeoplasmsFemaleHumansMiddle AgedOvarian NeoplasmsRisk FactorsUterine NeoplasmsBreast cancerovarian cancersecond cancerTaiwan Cancer Registryuterine cancer

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