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ENDOCRINE-RELATED CANCER
Volume 17, Issue 1, Pages 125-134Publisher
BIOSCIENTIFICA LTD
DOI: 10.1677/ERC-09-0211
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- National Cancer Institute [P01 CA33619, R37 CA54281]
- National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services [N01-PC-35137, N01-PC35139]
- [R25 CA90956]
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To add to the existing evidence that comes mostly from White populations, we conducted a nested case-control study to examine the association between sex hormones and breast cancer risk within the Multiethnic Cohort that includes Japanese American, White, Native Hawaiian, African American, and Latina women. Of the postmenopausal women for whom we had a plasma sample, 132 developed breast cancer during follow-up. Two controls per case, matched on study area (Hawaii, Los Angeles), ethnicity/race, birth year, date and time of blood draw and time fasting, were randomly selected from the women who had not developed breast cancer. Levels of estradiol (E-2), estrone (E-1), androstenedione, dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), and testosterone were quantified by RIA after organic extraction and Celite column partition chromatography. E-1 sulfate, DHEA sulfate (DHEAS), and sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG) were quantified by direct immunoassays. Based on conditional logistic regression, the sex hormones were positively associated and SHBG was negatively associated with breast cancer risk. All associations, except those with DHEAS and testosterone showed a significant linear trend. The odds ratio (OR) associated with a doubling of E-2 levels was 2.26 (95% confidence interval (CI) 1.58-3.25), and the OR associated with a doubling of testosterone levels was 1.34 (95% CI 0.98-1.82). The associations in Japanese American women, who constituted 54% of our sample, were similar to or nonsignificantly stronger than in the overall group. This study provides the best evidence to date that the association between sex hormones and breast cancer risk is generalizable to an ethnically diverse population. Endocrine-Related Cancer (2010) 17 125-134
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