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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CANCER
Volume 125, Issue 2, Pages 398-405Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.24287
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epidemiology; lymphoma; chronic lymphocytic leukemia; autoimmune; risk
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- Intramural NIH HHS [Z01 CP010150-08] Funding Source: Medline
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Some autoimmune conditions are associated with increased risk of lympboid malignancies, but information on specific malignancy subtypes is limited. From the U.S. Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results-Medicare database, we selected 44,350 lymphoid malignancy cases (>= 67 years) and 122,531 population-based controls. Logistic regression was used to derive odds ratios (ORs) comparing the prevalence of autoimmune conditions in cases and controls, by lymphoid malignancy subtype, adjusted for gender, age at malignancy/selection, year of malignancy/selection, race and number of physician claims. The strongest associations observed by non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) subtypes were diffuse large B-cell lymphoma with rheumatoid arthritis (OR 1.4, 95% CI 1.2-1.5) and Sjogren syndrome (2.0, 1.5-2.8); T-cell lymphoma with hemolytic anemia (9.7, 4.3-22), psoriasis (3.1, 2.5-4.0), discoid lupus erythematosus (4.4, 2.3-8.4) and celiac disease (5.0, 2.4-14); and marginal zone lymphoma with Sjogren syndrome (6.6, 4.6-9.5), systemic lupus erythematosus (2.8, 1.7-4.7) and hemolytic anemia (7.4, 3.1-18). Hodgkin lymphoma was associated with systemic lupus erythematosus (3.5, 1.9-6.7). Multiple myeloma was associated only with pernicious anemia (1.5, 1.3-1.7). Several autoimmune conditions were associated with increased risk of lymphoid neoplasms, especially NHLs of diffuse large B-cell, marginal zone and T-cell subtypes. These results support a mechanism whereby chronic antigenic stimulation leads to lymphoid malignancy. Published 2009 UICC. This article is a US Government work, and, as such, is in the public domain in the United States of America.
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