{"title":"Response to Lehrer and Rheinstein and to Alexiou, Zagorianakou, and Voulgaris.","authors":"Stephen S Francis, Geno Guerra","doi":"10.1093/jnci/djae345","DOIUrl":"10.1093/jnci/djae345","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14809,"journal":{"name":"JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute","volume":" ","pages":"568-569"},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11884844/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142949191","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pedro Nascimento de Lima, Carolyn M Rutter, Rosita van den Puttelaar, Anne I Hahn, Jonathan Ozik, Nicholson Collier, Ann G Zauber, Iris Lansdorp-Vogelaar, John M Inadomi
{"title":"Response to Hu, Yang, and Sun.","authors":"Pedro Nascimento de Lima, Carolyn M Rutter, Rosita van den Puttelaar, Anne I Hahn, Jonathan Ozik, Nicholson Collier, Ann G Zauber, Iris Lansdorp-Vogelaar, John M Inadomi","doi":"10.1093/jnci/djae341","DOIUrl":"10.1093/jnci/djae341","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14809,"journal":{"name":"JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute","volume":" ","pages":"572-573"},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11884849/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142882020","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Matthew R Cooperberg, Avery E Braun, Alejandro Berlin, Adam S Kibel, Scott E Eggener
{"title":"When is prostate cancer really cancer?","authors":"Matthew R Cooperberg, Avery E Braun, Alejandro Berlin, Adam S Kibel, Scott E Eggener","doi":"10.1093/jnci/djae200","DOIUrl":"10.1093/jnci/djae200","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Prostate cancer (PC) is a major cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide, with far more diagnoses than deaths annually. Recent discussions have challenged whether Grade Group 1 (GG1) PC should be labeled \"cancer\" due to its indolent nature. To address this question, an international symposium convened stakeholders from various fields. We summarize key discussion points: autopsy studies reveal GG1 is so common in aging males as to be perhaps a normal aspect of aging. Pure GG1 has no capacity to metastasize. Modern diagnostic pathways focus on detecting higher-grade disease, explicitly omitting biopsy if GG 2 or higher is not suspected, so GG1 has effectively become an \"incidentaloma.\" Recent spatial transcriptomics of prostate sections identifies a continuum of genomic changes-including alterations characteristic of malignancy in histologically normal regions, so the designation of cancer based entirely on conventional pathology findings increasingly seems arbitrary at least to an extent. Pathologists discussed heterogeneity and diagnostic challenges, suggesting \"acinar neoplasm\" as one possible alternative label. GG1 should not be considered \"normal,\" and absolutely requires ongoing active surveillance; whether patients would adhere to surveillance absent a cancer diagnosis is unknown. Patient perspectives highlighted the adverse effects of overtreatment and the burden of a cancer diagnosis. The anticipated impact on screening and treatment varies across health-care systems, but many believe public health would on balance greatly improve if GG1-along with lesions in other organs with no capacity to cause symptoms or threaten life-were labeled something other than \"cancer.\" Ultimately, our goal is to reduce PC mortality while minimizing harms associated with both overdiagnosis and overtreatment.</p>","PeriodicalId":14809,"journal":{"name":"JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute","volume":" ","pages":"402-405"},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142346976","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction to: Drug and biomarker tissue levels in a randomized presurgical trial on exemestane alternative schedules.","authors":"","doi":"10.1093/jnci/djaf018","DOIUrl":"10.1093/jnci/djaf018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14809,"journal":{"name":"JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute","volume":" ","pages":"574"},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11884840/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143052679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Esther M John, Jocelyn Koo, Sue A Ingles, Theresa H Keegan, Scarlett L Gomez, Christopher A Haiman, Allison W Kurian, Marilyn L Kwan, Susan L Neuhausen, Salma Shariff-Marco, Catherine Thomsen, Anna H Wu, Iona Cheng
{"title":"Risk factors for second primary breast cancer by laterality, age, and race and ethnicity.","authors":"Esther M John, Jocelyn Koo, Sue A Ingles, Theresa H Keegan, Scarlett L Gomez, Christopher A Haiman, Allison W Kurian, Marilyn L Kwan, Susan L Neuhausen, Salma Shariff-Marco, Catherine Thomsen, Anna H Wu, Iona Cheng","doi":"10.1093/jnci/djae254","DOIUrl":"10.1093/jnci/djae254","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Epidemiological studies of risk factors for second primary breast cancer (SBC) have been conducted primarily in non-Hispanic White (NHW) women.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A racially and ethnically diverse population-based pooled cohort of 9639 women with first primary stage I-III invasive breast cancer (FBC) was linked with the California Cancer Registry; 618 contralateral SBC (CSBC) and 278 ipsilateral SBC (ISBC), diagnosed more than 6 months after FBC, were identified. Using Fine and Gray models accounting for competing risks, we assessed associations of CSBC and ISBC risk with FBC clinical characteristics and epidemiological factors.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In younger women (FBC at age <50 years), higher CSBC risk was associated with ER/PR-negative FBC (hazard ratio [HR] = 1.68), breast cancer family history (HR = 2.20), and nulliparity (HR = 1.37). In older women (FBC at age ≥50 years), higher risk was associated with breast cancer family history (HR = 1.32), premenopausal status (HR = 1.49), overweight (HR = 1.39), and higher alcohol consumption (HR = 1.34). For ISBC, higher risk was associated with married status (HR = 1.94) in younger women, and overweight (HR = 1.60) among older women. For CSBC, HR estimates were generally similar across racial and ethnic groups. Even after adjustment for these risk factors, compared with NHW women, risk remained elevated for CSBC in younger African American, Asian American, and Hispanic women, and for ISBC in older African American and Hispanic women with ER/PR-positive FBC.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Our findings support genetic risk evaluation, enhanced screening, and lifestyle changes in women at higher risk of SBC. Additional risk factors must contribute to the unequal burden of SBC across racial and ethnic groups.</p>","PeriodicalId":14809,"journal":{"name":"JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute","volume":" ","pages":"436-449"},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11884860/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142400260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jonathan M Downie, Amit D Joshi, Connor M Geraghty, Brendan J Guercio, Oana A Zeleznik, Mingyang Song, Alaina M Bever, David A Drew, Fred K Tabung, Xuehong Zhang, Lina Jin, A Heather Eliassen, Walter C Willett, Kana Wu, Peter Kraft, Rulla Tamimi, Clary Clish, Charles S Fuchs, Edward Giovannucci, Jeffrey A Meyerhardt, Andrew T Chan
{"title":"Novel metabolomic predictors of incident colorectal cancer in men and women.","authors":"Jonathan M Downie, Amit D Joshi, Connor M Geraghty, Brendan J Guercio, Oana A Zeleznik, Mingyang Song, Alaina M Bever, David A Drew, Fred K Tabung, Xuehong Zhang, Lina Jin, A Heather Eliassen, Walter C Willett, Kana Wu, Peter Kraft, Rulla Tamimi, Clary Clish, Charles S Fuchs, Edward Giovannucci, Jeffrey A Meyerhardt, Andrew T Chan","doi":"10.1093/jnci/djae270","DOIUrl":"10.1093/jnci/djae270","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Metabolomic profiles may influence colorectal cancer (CRC) development. Few studies have performed prediagnostic metabolome-wide analyses with CRC risk.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We conducted a nested case-control study among women (Nurses' Health Study) and men (Health Professionals Follow-Up Study) who provided blood between 1989 and 1995. Over 22.9 years, 684 (409 Nurses' Health Study, 275 Health Professionals Follow-Up Study) individuals developed CRC and were matched 1:1 to unaffected participants. Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry identified 255 plasma metabolites after quality control. Cohort-specific and combined metabolite association analyses were performed using conditional logistic regression. Metabolite set enrichment analysis was used to identify differential abundance in metabolite classes. The R Weighted Correlation Network Analysis package provided modules of covarying metabolites, which were tested for CRC association.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Metabolite set enrichment analysis identified specific acylcarnitines associated with higher CRC risk and triacylglycerols with lower CRC risk among women and men. Further, phosphatidylcholines were associated with a higher risk of CRC among men. In an analysis restricted to CRC diagnosed 2 years after blood draw, myristoleic acid (odds ratio = 1.37 [95% CI = 1.15 to 1.62]; false discovery rate = 0.072) and C60:12 triacylglycerol (odds ratio = 0.75 [95% CI = 0.64 to 0.88]; false discovery rate = 0.072) were associated with CRC risk in women. Weighted correlation network analysis identified amino acids associated with CRC in men, fatty acid esters (carnitines) with distal CRC in men, and triradylcglycerols inversely associated with CRC in women.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>We identified prediagnostic CRC-associated metabolites with distinct sex-specific profiles. These results provide insight into CRC etiopathogenesis and have implications for risk prediction strategies.</p>","PeriodicalId":14809,"journal":{"name":"JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute","volume":" ","pages":"517-528"},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11884856/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142521918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mihir R Patel, Barbara Burtness, Robert L Ferris, Nabil F Saba
{"title":"The widespread application of trans-oral robotic surgery in HPV-related head and neck cancer: one size does not fit all.","authors":"Mihir R Patel, Barbara Burtness, Robert L Ferris, Nabil F Saba","doi":"10.1093/jnci/djae291","DOIUrl":"10.1093/jnci/djae291","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14809,"journal":{"name":"JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute","volume":" ","pages":"388-390"},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142854030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reducing-a little-the high price of randomized trials of the efficacy of multicancer early detection.","authors":"Noel S Weiss","doi":"10.1093/jnci/djae292","DOIUrl":"10.1093/jnci/djae292","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14809,"journal":{"name":"JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute","volume":" ","pages":"391-392"},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11884845/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142853850","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Life after cancer matters: supporting 2.1 million survivors of adolescent and young adult cancer.","authors":"AnnaLynn M Williams, Michael E Roth","doi":"10.1093/jnci/djae284","DOIUrl":"10.1093/jnci/djae284","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14809,"journal":{"name":"JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute","volume":" ","pages":"385-387"},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11884839/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142824210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Re: Association of immunoglobulin E levels with glioma risk and survival.","authors":"Steven Lehrer, Peter H Rheinstein","doi":"10.1093/jnci/djae343","DOIUrl":"10.1093/jnci/djae343","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14809,"journal":{"name":"JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute","volume":" ","pages":"565-566"},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11884846/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142949153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}