Nikolai Rivkind1, Valeriy Stepanenko2, Irina Belukha2, Jamie Guenthoer3, Kenneth J Kopecky4, Sergei Kulikov5, Irina Kurnosova1, Lynn Onstad4, Peggy Porter3, Nikita Shklovskiy-Kordi5, Vladislav Troshin6, Paul Voillequé7, Scott Davis4,8. 1. Bryansk Diagnostic Center, Bryansk, Russia. 2. Medical Radiological Research Center, Obninsk, Russia. 3. Division of Human Biology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA. 4. Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA. 5. National Research Center for Hematology, Moscow, Russia. 6. Bryansk Institute of Pathology, Bryansk, Russia. 7. MJP Risk Assessment, Denver, CO, USA. 8. Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Ionizing radiation is a known cause of female breast cancer, but there have been few studies of the risk after prolonged radiation exposure at low dose rates. METHODS: This population-based case-control study estimated breast cancer risk after ∼25 years' exposure to radiation from the Chernobyl accident. Cases (n = 468) were women ≤55 years old when first diagnosed with invasive breast cancer during October 2008 through February 2013, who lived in Bryansk Oblast, Russia at the time of the accident and their diagnoses. Controls, individually matched to cases on birth year, administrative district of residence and urban vs non-urban settlement during the accident, were women without breast cancer who lived in Bryansk Oblast at the time of the accident and on their cases' diagnosis dates (n = 468). Subjects were interviewed regarding residence, dietary and food source histories to support individualized estimation of their radiation doses to the breast, which ranged from 0.04 - 41 centigray (cGy) (mean 1.3 cGy). RESULTS: In multivariable analyses, the odds ratio for breast cancer risk was 3.0 [95% confidence interval (CI): 1.3, 7.0] and 2.7 (95% CI: 1.0, 7.3) in the seventh and eighth dose octiles, respectively, relative to the lowest octile. Analyses of dose effect modification suggested that radiation-related risk may have been higher in women who were younger at the time of the accident and/or at the time of diagnosis. CONCLUSIONS: This study suggests that prolonged exposure to ionizing radiation at low dose rates can increase risk of breast cancer.
BACKGROUND: Ionizing radiation is a known cause of female breast cancer, but there have been few studies of the risk after prolonged radiation exposure at low dose rates. METHODS: This population-based case-control study estimated breast cancer risk after ∼25 years' exposure to radiation from the Chernobyl accident. Cases (n = 468) were women ≤55 years old when first diagnosed with invasive breast cancer during October 2008 through February 2013, who lived in Bryansk Oblast, Russia at the time of the accident and their diagnoses. Controls, individually matched to cases on birth year, administrative district of residence and urban vs non-urban settlement during the accident, were women without breast cancer who lived in Bryansk Oblast at the time of the accident and on their cases' diagnosis dates (n = 468). Subjects were interviewed regarding residence, dietary and food source histories to support individualized estimation of their radiation doses to the breast, which ranged from 0.04 - 41 centigray (cGy) (mean 1.3 cGy). RESULTS: In multivariable analyses, the odds ratio for breast cancer risk was 3.0 [95% confidence interval (CI): 1.3, 7.0] and 2.7 (95% CI: 1.0, 7.3) in the seventh and eighth dose octiles, respectively, relative to the lowest octile. Analyses of dose effect modification suggested that radiation-related risk may have been higher in women who were younger at the time of the accident and/or at the time of diagnosis. CONCLUSIONS: This study suggests that prolonged exposure to ionizing radiation at low dose rates can increase risk of breast cancer.
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