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ArticleFrontiers in oncology2020

Lung Cancer Attributed Mortality Among 316,336 Early Stage Breast Cancer Cases Treated by Radiotherapy and/or Chemotherapy, 2000-2015: Evidence From the SEER Database.

Semaw Ferede Abera, Rafael T Mikolajczyk, Eva Johanna Kantelhardt, Ljupcho Efremov, Ahmed Bedir, Christian Ostheimer, André Glowka, Dirk Vordermark, Daniel Medenwald

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Article in Frontiers in oncology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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9 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Semaw Ferede AberaDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Faculty of Medicine, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany.
Rafael T MikolajczykInstitute for Medical Epidemiology, Biometrics and Informatics (IMEBI), Interdisciplinary Center for Health Sciences, Medical School of the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany.
Eva Johanna KantelhardtInstitute for Medical Epidemiology, Biometrics and Informatics (IMEBI), Interdisciplinary Center for Health Sciences, Medical School of the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany.
Ljupcho EfremovDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Faculty of Medicine, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany.
Ahmed BedirDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Faculty of Medicine, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany.
Christian OstheimerDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Faculty of Medicine, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany.
André GlowkaDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Faculty of Medicine, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany.
Dirk VordermarkDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Faculty of Medicine, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany.
Daniel MedenwaldDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Faculty of Medicine, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany.
Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg · DE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveTo estimate the risk of death from lung cancer in patients treated for breast cancer (BC) in relation to the general population.

methodsBC data, covering 2000 to 2015, were extracted from the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results-18 (SEER-18) cancer registry database. A comparison of lung cancer attributed mortality between BC patients and the general population was performed using standardized mortality ratios (SMRs) and SMRs conditional on survival length (cSMRs). Prognostic factors of lung cancer mortality were identified using flexible parametric modelling. Our model adjusts the effect of downstream (histopathological BC tumor grade and hormone receptor status) and upstream (age at diagnosis, ethnicity, and marital status) factors.

resultsThe median follow-up was 6.4 years (interquartile range, 3.0-10.3 years). BC cases who received only radiotherapy (cSMR = 0.93; 95%CI: 0.77-1.13), only chemotherapy (cSMR = 0.91; 0.62-1.33), and radio-and chemotherapy (cSMR = 1.04; 0.77-1.39) had no evidence of increased lung cancer mortality relative to the general population. The adjusted model identified that lung cancer mortality was higher for women who were older at diagnosis compared to those <50 years (ranging from HR50-59 = 3.41 [95%CI: 2.72-4.28] to HR70-79 = 10.53 [95%CI: 8.44-13.13]) and for cases with negative estrogen and progesterone receptors (HR =1.38; 95% CI: 1.21-1.57). Compared to married cases, widowed, divorced, single or others had a 76%, 45%, and 25% higher hazard of lung cancer mortality, respectively. Lung cancer mortality was lower for American Indian/Alaska Native and Asian/Pacific Islander ethnicities (HR = 0.51; 95% CI: 0.40-0.64) compared to BC cases with white ethnic background.

conclusionsThere is no evidence for a higher lung cancer mortality in BC patients when compared to the general population.

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