Jennifer W Bea, Heather M Ochs-Balcom, Celina I Valencia, Zhao Chen, Robert M Blew, Kimberly E Lind, Bette J Caan, Denise J Roe, Thomas E Rohan, Katherine W Reeves, JoAnn E Manson, Tarah Ballinger, Kerryn W Reding, Shawna Follis, Shelby G Ziller, Andrew O Odegaard
{"title":"Abdominal visceral and subcutaneous adipose tissue associations with postmenopausal breast cancer incidence.","authors":"Jennifer W Bea, Heather M Ochs-Balcom, Celina I Valencia, Zhao Chen, Robert M Blew, Kimberly E Lind, Bette J Caan, Denise J Roe, Thomas E Rohan, Katherine W Reeves, JoAnn E Manson, Tarah Ballinger, Kerryn W Reding, Shawna Follis, Shelby G Ziller, Andrew O Odegaard","doi":"10.1093/jncics/pkaf007","DOIUrl":"10.1093/jncics/pkaf007","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Obesity, classified by body mass index (BMI), is associated with higher postmenopausal breast cancer (BCa) risk. Yet, the associations between abdominal visceral (VAT) and subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT) with BCa are unclear.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We assessed BCa associations with abdominal VAT and SAT in a prospective cohort of postmenopausal women without a history of cancer and with 27 years follow-up (N = 9950), during which all new cancers were adjudicated. Dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry scans assessed adiposity at baseline, year 3, and year 6. Competing-risks multivariable sub-hazard ratios (SHR), with adjustments for sociodemographic, behavioral, reproductive, and anthropometric characteristics, were estimated for baseline and time-dependent associations between VAT, SAT, and incident BCa.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Participants averaged 63.3 ± 7.4 years of age and a BMI of 28.20 ± 5.72 kg/m2 at baseline. The models included 738 incident BCa case patients (N = 593 invasive; N = 145 in situ). Baseline VAT and SAT area were associated with statistically significantly increased BCa risk, by 36% and 19%, respectively. Increasing VAT/SAT ratio was associated with an 8% increase in incident BCa. Time-dependent models produced similar results. VAT and VAT/SAT associated BCa risk was highest for African American/Black women, although not statistically significantly different from other groups. Quartiles (Q) of VAT/SAT were also explored; the SHR for Q4 compared with Q1 was 1.49 (95% CI = 1.18 to 1.87).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Higher abdominal VAT and SAT are associated with an increased risk of postmenopausal BCa, and VAT/SAT may provide a distinctive risk estimate. Potential racial and ethnic differences require replication in a larger sample (Women's Health Initiative; NCT00000611; https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00000611).</p>","PeriodicalId":14681,"journal":{"name":"JNCI Cancer Spectrum","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11879126/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143028923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tharani Murali, Matthew Schwartz, Adam Z Reynolds, Li Luo, Grace Ridgeway, Klaus J Busam, Anne E Cust, Hoda Anton-Culver, Richard P Gallagher, Roberto Zanetti, Stefano Rosso, Lidia Sacchetto, Colin B Begg, Irene Orlow, Nancy E Thomas, Marianne Berwick
{"title":"Sex differences in melanoma survival-a GEM study.","authors":"Tharani Murali, Matthew Schwartz, Adam Z Reynolds, Li Luo, Grace Ridgeway, Klaus J Busam, Anne E Cust, Hoda Anton-Culver, Richard P Gallagher, Roberto Zanetti, Stefano Rosso, Lidia Sacchetto, Colin B Begg, Irene Orlow, Nancy E Thomas, Marianne Berwick","doi":"10.1093/jncics/pkaf005","DOIUrl":"10.1093/jncics/pkaf005","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Sex differences in melanoma are prominent, with female having a significant survival advantage. However, it is unclear why we see this survival advantage. Here, we investigate the relationship between sex, clinicopathologic variables, and melanoma specific survival in 1753 single primary melanomas from patients in the GEM (Genes, Environment, and Melanoma) study. Using Cox proportional hazard models and formal mediation analysis, the effect of sex on survival is explained largely by differences in the clinicopathologic features of tumors at diagnosis. Specifically, we find evidence that 86.5% of the effect of sex on melanoma survival is mediated by differences in age at diagnosis, Breslow thickness, ulceration, mitoses, and site (hazard ratio [HR] = 1.85, P < .001). This analysis indicates that the female survival advantage in melanoma is not primarily due to a direct effect of sex (HR = 1.19, P = .42) but is largely a result of an indirect effect of sex mediated by clinicopathologic features.</p>","PeriodicalId":14681,"journal":{"name":"JNCI Cancer Spectrum","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11812020/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142970890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Robert J MacInnis, Mark A Jenkins, Roger L Milne, Esther M John, Mary B Daly, Irene L Andrulis, Sarah V Colonna, Kelly-Anne Phillips, Loic Le Marchand, Polly A Newcomb, Amanda I Phipps, Stephanie L Schmit, Finlay A Macrae, Daniel D Buchanan, Steven Gallinger, Rish K Pai, Niloy J Samadder, Graham G Giles, Melissa C Southey, John L Hopper, Mary Beth Terry
{"title":"Menopausal hormone therapy: assessing associations with breast and colorectal cancers by familial risk.","authors":"Robert J MacInnis, Mark A Jenkins, Roger L Milne, Esther M John, Mary B Daly, Irene L Andrulis, Sarah V Colonna, Kelly-Anne Phillips, Loic Le Marchand, Polly A Newcomb, Amanda I Phipps, Stephanie L Schmit, Finlay A Macrae, Daniel D Buchanan, Steven Gallinger, Rish K Pai, Niloy J Samadder, Graham G Giles, Melissa C Southey, John L Hopper, Mary Beth Terry","doi":"10.1093/jncics/pkae121","DOIUrl":"10.1093/jncics/pkae121","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Menopausal users of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) are at increased breast cancer risk and decreased colorectal cancer (CRC) risk compared with individuals who have never used HRT, but these opposing associations may differ by familial risk of breast cancer and CRC. We harmonized data from 3 cohorts and generated separate breast cancer and CRC familial risk scores based on cancer family history. We defined moderate or strong family history as a risk score of 0.4 or higher, where 0.4 was equivalent to a 50-year-old woman with 1 parent diagnosed with either breast cancer or CRC at 55 years of age. Of 24 486 women assessed, 1243 and 405 were diagnosed with incident breast cancer and CRC, respectively. For breast cancer, menopausal HRT ever use versus never use hazard ratios were 1.27 (95% CI = 1.11 to 1.45) for a breast cancer familial risk score below 0.4 and 1.01 (95% CI = 0.82 to 1.25) for a breast cancer familial risk score of 0.4 or higher (Pdifference = .08). For CRC, menopausal HRT hazard ratios were 0.63 (95% CI = 0.50 to 0.78) for a CRC familial risk score below 0.4 and 1.21 (95% CI = 0.73 to 2.00) for a CRC familial risk score of 0.4 or higher (Pdifference = .03). Associations with menopausal HRT use that apply to the general population may not hold for women at moderate or strong familial risk of these cancers.</p>","PeriodicalId":14681,"journal":{"name":"JNCI Cancer Spectrum","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11700558/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142824193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jamie N Mills, Valerie Gunchick, Jake McGue, Zhaoping Qin, Chandan Kumar-Sinha, Filip Bednar, Noah Brown, Jiaqi Shi, Aaron M Udager, Timothy Frankel, Mark M Zalupski, Vaibhav Sahai
{"title":"Characterization of undifferentiated carcinomas of the pancreas with and without osteoclast-like giant cells.","authors":"Jamie N Mills, Valerie Gunchick, Jake McGue, Zhaoping Qin, Chandan Kumar-Sinha, Filip Bednar, Noah Brown, Jiaqi Shi, Aaron M Udager, Timothy Frankel, Mark M Zalupski, Vaibhav Sahai","doi":"10.1093/jncics/pkae097","DOIUrl":"10.1093/jncics/pkae097","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Undifferentiated carcinoma (UC) is a rare subtype of pancreatic cancer distinguished from UC with osteoclast-like giant cells (UC-OGC) in 2019, affecting interpretation of literature that does not distinguish these subtypes. We sought to identify translationally relevant differences between these 2 variants and compared with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We characterized clinical and multiomic differences between UC (n = 32) and UC-OGC (n = 15) using DNA sequencing, RNA sequencing, and multiplex immunofluorescence and compared these findings with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Characteristics at diagnosis were similar between UC and UC-OGC, though the latter was more resectable (P = .009). Across all stages, median overall survival was shorter for UC than for UC-OGC (0.4 years vs 10.8 years, respectively; P = .003). This shorter survival was retained after stratification by resection, albeit without statistical significance (1.8 years vs 11.9 years, respectively; P = .08). In a subset of patients with available tissue, the genomic landscape was similar among UC (n = 9), UC-OGC (n = 5), and pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (n = 159). Bulk RNA sequencing was deconvoluted and, along with multiplex immunofluorescence in UC (n = 13), UC-OGC (n = 5), and pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (n = 16), demonstrated statistically significantly increased antigen-presenting cells, including M2 macrophages and natural killer cells, and decreased cytotoxic and regulatory T cells in UC and UC-OGC vs pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. Findings were similar between UC and UC-OGC , except for decreased regulatory T cells in UC-OGC (P = .04).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>In this series, UC was more aggressive than UC-OGC, with these variants having more antigen-presenting cells and fewer regulatory T cells than pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, suggesting potential for immune-modulating therapies in the treatment of these pancreatic cancer subtypes.</p>","PeriodicalId":14681,"journal":{"name":"JNCI Cancer Spectrum","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11700618/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142371867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Amy C Degnim, Karthik Ghosh, Robert A Vierkant, Stacey J Winham, Tanya L Hoskin, Jodi M Carter, Bryan M McCauley, Matt R Jensen, Teresa Allers, Marlene Frost, Denice L Gehling, Jessica L Fischer, Lisa R Seymour, Laura M Pacheco-Spann, Philip S Rosenberg, Lori A Denison, Celine M Vachon, Lynn C Hartmann, Derek C Radisky, Mark E Sherman
{"title":"Changes in breast cancer risk associated with benign breast disease from 1967 to 2013.","authors":"Amy C Degnim, Karthik Ghosh, Robert A Vierkant, Stacey J Winham, Tanya L Hoskin, Jodi M Carter, Bryan M McCauley, Matt R Jensen, Teresa Allers, Marlene Frost, Denice L Gehling, Jessica L Fischer, Lisa R Seymour, Laura M Pacheco-Spann, Philip S Rosenberg, Lori A Denison, Celine M Vachon, Lynn C Hartmann, Derek C Radisky, Mark E Sherman","doi":"10.1093/jncics/pkae128","DOIUrl":"10.1093/jncics/pkae128","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Benign breast disease (BBD) increases breast cancer (BC) risk progressively for women diagnosed with nonproliferative change, proliferative disease without atypia (PDWA), and atypical hyperplasia (AH). Leveraging data from 18 704 women in the Mayo BBD Cohort (1967-2013), we evaluated temporal trends in BBD diagnoses and how they have influenced associated BC risk over 4 decades.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>BC risk trends associated with BBD were evaluated using standardized incidence ratios (SIRs) and age-period-cohort modeling across 4 eras-premammogram (1967-1981), precore needle biopsy (CNB) (1982-1992), transition to CNB (1993-2001), and CNB era (2002-2013).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>With a median follow-up of 15.8 years, 9.9% of women were diagnosed with BC (invasive and/or DCIS). From the premammogram era to the CNB era, we observed a significant increase in BC risk, rising from an SIR of 1.61 to 1.99. The proportion of proliferative BBD diagnoses (PDWA or AH) increased markedly over time (28.1%-49.7%), as did the proportion of DCIS events (11%-28%; χ2 P < .001). Within specific BBD categories, the risk of invasive BC increased modestly.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Absolute risk of BC within BBD categories remained stable, but the relative risk of BC after BBD increased over time due to notable increases in higher risk BBD lesions, specifically PDWA and AH. These findings illustrate how evolving screening practices have changed the risk profile of BBD and should inform management strategies for patients with BBD in modern clinical settings.</p>","PeriodicalId":14681,"journal":{"name":"JNCI Cancer Spectrum","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11770946/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142949081","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"RE: \"Narrative review of lifestyle interventions in breast cancer survivors: current evidence and future directions\".","authors":"Alain Braillon","doi":"10.1093/jncics/pkae125","DOIUrl":"10.1093/jncics/pkae125","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14681,"journal":{"name":"JNCI Cancer Spectrum","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11729713/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142869322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Joyce Pak, Ngan Le, Eman M Metwally, Jeanny Wang, Arrianna Marie Planey, Amy M Lowman, Bradford E Jackson, Eboneé N Butler, Jennifer L Lund
{"title":"Evaluating the intersection of climate vulnerability and cancer burden in North Carolina.","authors":"Joyce Pak, Ngan Le, Eman M Metwally, Jeanny Wang, Arrianna Marie Planey, Amy M Lowman, Bradford E Jackson, Eboneé N Butler, Jennifer L Lund","doi":"10.1093/jncics/pkae124","DOIUrl":"10.1093/jncics/pkae124","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Climate-related extreme weather events disrupt health-care systems and exacerbate health disparities, particularly affecting individuals diagnosed with cancer. This study explores the intersection of climate vulnerability and cancer burden in North Carolina (NC). Using county-level data from the US Climate Vulnerability Index (CVI) and the NC Department of Health and Human Services, we analyzed cancer incidence and mortality rates from 2017 to 2021. Our findings reveal a robust correlation between CVI percentiles and cancer mortality (r = 0.72). Counties with high area deprivation like Scotland, Robeson, and Halifax had the highest CVI percentiles of 0.68, 0.67, and 0.66, with respective cancer mortality rates of 193, 195, and 196 per 100 000 person-years. Correlations between CVI and cancer incidence were modest (r = 0.22). These results underscore the need for targeted public health interventions to mitigate climate-related health disparities. Future work could focus on exploring specific climate hazards and cancer outcomes to enhance preparedness and resilience in cancer care.</p>","PeriodicalId":14681,"journal":{"name":"JNCI Cancer Spectrum","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11792647/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142846597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Edoardo Beatrici, Zhiyu Qian, Dejan K Filipas, Benjamin V Stone, Filippo Dagnino, Muhieddine Labban, Stuart R Lipsitz, Giovanni Lughezzani, Nicolò M Buffi, Alexander P Cole, Quoc-Dien Trinh
{"title":"Socioeconomic determinants of cancer screening adherence among cancer survivors: analysis from the 2020 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System.","authors":"Edoardo Beatrici, Zhiyu Qian, Dejan K Filipas, Benjamin V Stone, Filippo Dagnino, Muhieddine Labban, Stuart R Lipsitz, Giovanni Lughezzani, Nicolò M Buffi, Alexander P Cole, Quoc-Dien Trinh","doi":"10.1093/jncics/pkae127","DOIUrl":"10.1093/jncics/pkae127","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Factors associated with cancer survivors' preventive health behaviors are understudied. We hypothesized that socioeconomic and health-care access factors may be associated with adherence to recommended cancer screenings.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We conducted a cross-sectional analysis using the 2020 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. Cancer survivors eligible for United States Preventive Services Task Force-recommended breast, cervical, prostate, and colorectal screenings were included. Multivariable logistic regression models were used to identify socioeconomic factors significantly associated with screening adherence.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Overall, 64 958 (weighted national estimate = 29 066 143) cancer survivors were included. Adherence rates varied across cancer types: 80.9% for breast, 88.9% for cervical, 54.1% for prostate, and 84.7% for colorectal cancer. Key predictors of low adherence included lower income (breast: adjusted odds ratio [aOR] = 0.56, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.43 to 0.74; cervical: aOR = 0.38, 95% CI = 0.24 to 0.59; prostate: aOR = 0.36, 95% CI = 0.24 to 0.52; colorectal: aOR = 0.74, 95% CI = 0.57 to 0.96), lack of health-care coverage for colorectal cancer (aOR = 0.51, 95% CI = 0.36 to 0.73), time since last checkup between 1 and 2 years prior for breast (aOR = 0.58, 95% CI = 0.45 to 0.75), prostate (aOR = 0.66, 95% CI = 0.47 to 0.91), and colorectal (aOR = 0.69, 95% CI = 0.56 to 0.86) cancer, and no health-care provider for breast (aOR = 0.68, 95% CI = 0.47 to 0.98), prostate (aOR = 0.45, 95% CI = 0.31 to 0.65), and colorectal (aOR = 0.51, 95% CI = 0.40 to 0.66) cancer.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Cancer survivors' adherence to screening is associated with factors including lack of health-care coverage, lower income, time since the last exam, and having a personal provider. Targeted interventions accounting for such factors may help mitigate these disparities.</p>","PeriodicalId":14681,"journal":{"name":"JNCI Cancer Spectrum","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11751581/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142864106","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anna S Young, Catherine E Mullins, Neha Sehgal, Roel C H Vermeulen, P Martijn Kolijn, Jelle Vlaanderen, Mohammad L Rahman, Brenda M Birmann, Dinesh Barupal, Qing Lan, Nathaniel Rothman, Douglas I Walker
{"title":"The need for a cancer exposome atlas: a scoping review.","authors":"Anna S Young, Catherine E Mullins, Neha Sehgal, Roel C H Vermeulen, P Martijn Kolijn, Jelle Vlaanderen, Mohammad L Rahman, Brenda M Birmann, Dinesh Barupal, Qing Lan, Nathaniel Rothman, Douglas I Walker","doi":"10.1093/jncics/pkae122","DOIUrl":"10.1093/jncics/pkae122","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Despite advances in understanding genetic susceptibility to cancer, much of cancer heritability remains unidentified. At the same time, the makeup of industrial chemicals in our environment only grows more complex. This gap in knowledge on cancer risk has prompted calls to expand cancer research to the comprehensive, discovery-based study of nongenetic environmental influences, conceptualized as the \"exposome.\"</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Our scoping review aimed to describe the exposome and its application to cancer epidemiology and to study design limitations, challenges in analytical methods, and major unmet opportunities in advanced exposome profiling methods that allow the quantification of complex chemical exposure profiles in biological matrices. To evaluate progress on incorporating measurements of the exposome into cancer research, we performed a review of such \"cancer exposome\" studies published through August 2023.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We found that only 1 study leveraged untargeted chemical profiling of the exposome as a method to measure tens of thousands of environmental chemicals and identify prospective associations with future cancer risk. The other 13 studies used hypothesis-driven exposome approaches that targeted a set of preselected lifestyle, occupational, air quality, social determinant, or other external risk factors. Many of the included studies could only leverage sample sizes with less than 400 cancer cases (67% of nonecologic studies) and exposures experienced after diagnosis (29% of studies). Six cancer types were covered, most commonly blood (43%), lung (21%), or breast (14%) cancer.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The exposome is underutilized in cancer research, despite its potential to unravel complex relationships between environmental exposures and cancer and to inform primary prevention.</p>","PeriodicalId":14681,"journal":{"name":"JNCI Cancer Spectrum","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11729703/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142864107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bernard F Fuemmeler, Joseph Boyle, Carrie A Miller, Debarchana Ghosh, Cheryl L Knott
{"title":"Indices of neighborhood disadvantage and individual cancer control behaviors among African American adults.","authors":"Bernard F Fuemmeler, Joseph Boyle, Carrie A Miller, Debarchana Ghosh, Cheryl L Knott","doi":"10.1093/jncics/pkaf015","DOIUrl":"10.1093/jncics/pkaf015","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Emerging literature notes the importance of neighborhood-level factors for cancer control behaviors beyond that of individual factors. Markers of neighborhood-level disadvantage have been linked to greater likelihood of nonsalutary cancer control behaviors. There has been less examination of many neighborhood factors simultaneously, which more accurately reflects individuals' daily experiences. We estimated associations of neighborhood deprivation indices with cancer control behaviors, identifying the relative importance of neighborhood-level deprivation index components for these outcomes.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We used data from the Religion and Health in African Americans study, a national probability sample of African American adults. We separately considered 4 screening and 4 prevention behaviors as outcomes. We constructed neighborhood deprivation indices using census tract-level data and estimated their associations with outcomes using bayesian index models, adjusting for individual-level covariates. We reported odds ratios (ORs), credible intervals, and exceedance probabilities.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Participants in our sample engaged in relatively high levels of screening behaviors and lower levels of prevention behaviors. Neighborhood deprivation indices were statistically significantly associated with a greater likelihood of binge drinking (OR = 1.13, exceedance probability = 98.5%), smoking (OR = 1.07, exceedance probability = 99.4%), and insufficient colonoscopy (exceedance probability = 99.9%), Papanicolaou (exceedance probability = 99.7%), and prostate-specific antigen (exceedance probability = 99.1%) screening. Within neighborhood deprivation indices, median household income, percentage of individuals without some college education, and percentage of individuals unemployed received large estimated importance weights.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>We identified statistically significant associations between neighborhood disadvantage and nonsalutary cancer control behaviors as well as important neighborhood-level deprivation index components for each outcome. These and similar findings from future studies should be used to target specific neighborhood factors for specific cancer control behaviors rather than using a one-size-fits-all approach.</p>","PeriodicalId":14681,"journal":{"name":"JNCI Cancer Spectrum","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11879093/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143556907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}