Amy Metcalfe, Zoe F Cairncross, Carly A McMorris, Christine M Friedenreich, Gregg Nelson, Parveen Bhatti, Deshayne B Fell, Sarka Lisonkova, Khokan C Sikdar, Lorraine Shack, Joel G Ray
{"title":"Cancer chemotherapy in pregnancy and adverse pediatric outcomes: a population-based cohort study.","authors":"Amy Metcalfe, Zoe F Cairncross, Carly A McMorris, Christine M Friedenreich, Gregg Nelson, Parveen Bhatti, Deshayne B Fell, Sarka Lisonkova, Khokan C Sikdar, Lorraine Shack, Joel G Ray","doi":"10.1093/jnci/djae273","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jnci/djae273","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Administration of chemotherapy during pregnancy is often delayed, while preterm delivery is common. If in utero exposure to chemotherapy is associated with adverse pediatric outcomes, it is unknown whether that relationship is directly attributable to the chemotherapy or is mediated by preterm birth.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Cases were identified from Canadian cancer registries and administrative data in Alberta, British Columbia, and Ontario, 2003-2017, with follow-up until 2018. The primary exposure was receipt of chemotherapy during pregnancy. Severe neonatal morbidity and mortality (SNM-M), neurodevelopmental disorders and disabilities (NDDs) and pediatric complex chronic conditions (PCCC) reflected short- and long-term pediatric outcomes. Modified Poisson and Cox proportional hazard regression models generated adjusted risk ratios (RR) and hazard ratios (HR), respectively. The influence of preterm birth on the association between exposure to chemotherapy in pregnancy and each study outcome was explored using mediation analysis.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Of the 1150 incident cases of cancer during pregnancy, 142 (12.3%) received chemotherapy during pregnancy. Exposure to chemotherapy in pregnancy was associated with a higher risk of SNM-M (RR 1.67, 95% CI: 1.13-2.46), but not NDD (HR 0.93, 95% CI: 0.71-1.22) or PCCC (HR 0.96, 95% CI: 0.80-1.16). Preterm birth <34 and <37 weeks mediated 75.8% and 100% of the observed association between chemotherapy and SNM-M, respectively.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Most children born to people with cancer during pregnancy appear to have favourable long-term outcomes, even following exposure to chemotherapy in pregnancy. However, preterm birth is quite common, and may contribute to increased rates of adverse neonatal outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":14809,"journal":{"name":"JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142545628","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}
Victoria M Foster, Amy Trentham-Dietz, Natasha K Stout, Christoph I Lee, Laura E Ichikawa, Joanna Eavey, Louise Henderson, Diana L Miglioretti, Anna N A Tosteson, Erin A Bowles, Karla Kerlikowske, Brian L Sprague
{"title":"Supplemental breast cancer screening after negative mammography in U.S. women with dense breasts.","authors":"Victoria M Foster, Amy Trentham-Dietz, Natasha K Stout, Christoph I Lee, Laura E Ichikawa, Joanna Eavey, Louise Henderson, Diana L Miglioretti, Anna N A Tosteson, Erin A Bowles, Karla Kerlikowske, Brian L Sprague","doi":"10.1093/jnci/djae272","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jnci/djae272","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The extent and determinants of supplemental screening among women with dense breasts are unclear. We evaluated a retrospective cohort of 498,855 women aged 40-74 years with heterogeneously or extremely dense breasts who obtained 1,176,251 negative screening mammography examinations during 2011-2019 in the United States. Overall, 2.8% and 0.3% of mammograms had supplemental ultrasound or MRI within one year, respectively. Onsite availability was associated with ultrasound (odds ratio [OR]=4.35; 95%CI : 4.21-4.49) but not MRI (OR = 0.94; 95%CI : 0.85-1.04). Facility academic affiliation and for-profit status were inversely associated with supplemental ultrasound (OR = 0.53; 95%CI : 0.49-0.57 and OR = 0.83; 95%CI : 0.81-0.86, respectively) and positively associated with supplemental MRI (OR = 3.04; 95%CI : 2.86-3.46 and OR = 1.88; 95%CI : 1.66-2.12, respectively). Supplemental screening was more likely to occur after passage of state-specific density notification laws than before passage (OR = 3.56; 95%CI 3.30-3.84 and OR = 1.79; 95%CI 1.60-2.00, respectively). These results show that supplemental breast imaging utilization has been uncommon and was related to facility factors and density legislation.</p>","PeriodicalId":14809,"journal":{"name":"JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142545630","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}
Parichoy Pal Choudhury, Helmneh M Sineshaw, Rachel A Freedman, Michael T Halpern, Leticia Nogueira, Ahmedin Jemal, Farhad Islami
{"title":"Contribution of health insurance to racial and ethnic disparities in advanced stage diagnosis of 10 cancers.","authors":"Parichoy Pal Choudhury, Helmneh M Sineshaw, Rachel A Freedman, Michael T Halpern, Leticia Nogueira, Ahmedin Jemal, Farhad Islami","doi":"10.1093/jnci/djae242","DOIUrl":"10.1093/jnci/djae242","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>For many cancer sites, it is unclear to what extent differences in health insurance coverage contribute to racial and ethnic disparities in stage III-IV diagnoses. Using the National Cancer Database (1,893,026 patients aged 18-64 years, diagnosed between 2013-2019), we investigated a potential mediating role of health insurance (privately insured vs uninsured) in explaining racial and ethnic disparities in stage at diagnosis of 10 cancers (ie, breast, prostate, colorectal, lung, cervical, uterine, bladder, head and neck, skin melanoma), detectable early through screening, physical examination, or clinical symptoms. The analyses provided evidence of mediation of non-Hispanic Black vs White disparities in eight cancers (range of proportions mediated: 4.5%-29.1%); Hispanic vs non-Hispanic White disparities in six cancers (13.2%-68.8%); non-Hispanic Asian/Pacific Islander vs White disparities in three cancers (5.8%-11.3%). To summarize, health insurance accounts for a significant proportion of the racial and ethnic disparities in stage III-IV diagnoses across a wide range of cancers.</p>","PeriodicalId":14809,"journal":{"name":"JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142545629","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}
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 pre-diagnostic metabolome-wide analyses with CRC risk.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We conducted a nested case-control study among women (Nurses' Health Study (NHS)) and men (Health Professionals Follow-up Study (HPFS)) who provided blood between 1989 and 1995. Over 22.9 years, 684 (409 NHS, 275 HPFS) incident CRC cases occurred and were matched 1:1 to controls. Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) identified 255 plasma metabolites after quality control. Cohort-specific and combined metabolite association analyses were performed using conditional logistic regression. Metabolite set enrichment analysis (MSEA) was used to identify differential abundance in metabolite classes. Weighted Correlation Network Analysis (WGCNA) provided modules of covarying metabolites, which were tested for CRC association.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>MSEA 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 cases diagnosed two years after blood draw, myristoleic acid (OR = 1.37; 95%CI = 1.15-1.62; FDR = 0.072) and C60:12 triacylglycerol (OR = 0.75; 95%CI = 0.64-0.88; FDR = 0.072 were associated with CRC risk in women. WGCNA 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 pre-diagnostic 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":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","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":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Melanoma thickness and long-term mortality.","authors":"Paolo Vineis","doi":"10.1093/jnci/djae236","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jnci/djae236","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14809,"journal":{"name":"JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142465993","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}
Kyle M Walsh, Mackenzie Price, David R Raleigh, Evan Calabrese, Carol Kruchko, Jill S Barnholtz-Sloan, Quinn T Ostrom
{"title":"Grade-stratified meningioma risk among individuals who are Non-Hispanic black and interactions with male sex.","authors":"Kyle M Walsh, Mackenzie Price, David R Raleigh, Evan Calabrese, Carol Kruchko, Jill S Barnholtz-Sloan, Quinn T Ostrom","doi":"10.1093/jnci/djae253","DOIUrl":"10.1093/jnci/djae253","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Meningioma risk factors include older age, female sex, and African-American race. Limited data explore how meningioma risk in African-Americans varies across the lifespan, interacts with sex, and differs by tumor grade.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The Central Brain Tumor Registry of the United States (CBTRUS) is a population-based registry covering the entire U.S. population. Meningioma diagnoses from 2004-2019 were used to calculate incidence rate ratios (IRRs) for non-Hispanic Black individuals (NHB) compared to non-Hispanic white individuals (NHW) across 10-year age intervals, and stratified by sex and by WHO tumor grade in this retrospective study.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>53,890 NHB individuals and 322,373 NHW individuals with an intracranial meningioma diagnosis were included in analyses. Beginning in young adulthood, the NHB-to-NHW IRR was elevated for both grade 1 and grade 2/3 tumors. The IRR peaked in the seventh decade of life regardless of grade, and was higher for grade 2/3 tumors (IRR = 1.57; 95% CI: 1.46-1.69) than grade 1 tumors (IRR = 1.27; 95% CI: 1.25-1.30) in this age group. The NHB-to-NHW IRR was elevated in females (IRR = 1.17; 95% CI: 1.16-1.18) and was further elevated in males (IRR = 1.28; 95% CI: 1.26-1.30), revealing synergistic interaction between NHB race/ethnicity and male sex (PInteraction=0.001).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Relative to NHW individuals, NHB individuals are at elevated risk of meningioma from young adulthood through old age. NHB race/ethnicity conferred greater risk of meningioma among men than women, and greater risk of grade 2/3 tumors. Population-level differences in meningioma incidence and tumor behavior suggest potential disparities in the geographic, socioeconomic, and racial distribution of meningioma risk factors within the U.S.</p>","PeriodicalId":14809,"journal":{"name":"JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142400250","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}
Tingyu Wen, Guangyi Sun, Wenxin Jiang, Kat Steiner, Suzannah Bridge, Peng Liu
{"title":"Comparing the Efficacy and Safety of First-Line Treatments for Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia: A Network Meta-Analysis.","authors":"Tingyu Wen, Guangyi Sun, Wenxin Jiang, Kat Steiner, Suzannah Bridge, Peng Liu","doi":"10.1093/jnci/djae245","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jnci/djae245","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) treatment strategies have transitioned from chemotherapy and chemoimmunotherapy to chemo-free regimens. Frequentist network meta-analysis allows for both direct and indirect comparisons between different treatments.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Randomized controlled trials assessing first-line treatments were included. Outcomes were progression-free survival (PFS), overall survival, undetectable minimal residual disease (MRD), objective response rate, and adverse events. Studies with comparable characteristics also underwent subgroup analysis, stratifying by age, comorbidities, IGHV status, and cytogenetic abnormalities.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>30 eligible trials involved 12,818 patients and 30 treatments were included. Acalabrutinib demonstrated a PFS advantage over ibrutinib and obinutuzumab-venetoclax (OV) in patients over 65 years old or with unmutated IGHV. In younger patients with comorbidities, Acalabrutinib-Obinutuzumab (AO) had superior PFS compared to Ibrutinib-Obinutuzumab (IO), Ibrutinib-Venetoclax (IV), and OV. For older patients with comorbidities, Acalabrutinib and AO both outperformed OV without significant difference between them. MRD-guided IV surpassed OV in patients without comorbidities. IO exhibited extended PFS benefits compared to OV in patients with mutated IGHV or with del(17p) and/or TP53 mutations. IV and IO have lower neutropenia rates than OV. IV have fewer infections than Acalabrutinib and AO. AO causes less diarrhea than IV but more headaches than IO and OV. OV has lower hypertension rates than IO. IV has fewer arthralgia than AO. For any grade secondary primary neoplasms, IV and OV is less than AO.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Tailored chemo-free regimens can be selected based on age, comorbidities, IGHV status, and cytogenetic abnormalities to optimize treatment outcomes while considering different response spectra.</p>","PeriodicalId":14809,"journal":{"name":"JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142406411","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}
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>Epidemiologic 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 9,639 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 >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 epidemiologic 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":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","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":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Helen M Parsons, Arjun Gupta, Patricia Jewett, Rachel I Vogel
{"title":"The Intersecting Time, Administrative and Financial Burdens of a Cancer Diagnosis.","authors":"Helen M Parsons, Arjun Gupta, Patricia Jewett, Rachel I Vogel","doi":"10.1093/jnci/djae252","DOIUrl":"10.1093/jnci/djae252","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cancer and its care create substantial financial, time, and administrative burdens both for patients and their loved ones. While cancer-related financial burdens have been well documented in the past decade, time and administrative burdens of cancer care have received substantially less attention. We define time burdens as the burden patients and caregivers experience due to the time needed to complete cancer-related treatment and tasks that take away from other life responsibilities. Relatedly, we conceptualize administrative burdens as those burdens patients and caregivers experience due to cancer-related, resource-consuming bureaucratic and logistical tasks. Finally, financial hardship can be conceptualized as problems patients experience related to the cost of medical care. These burdens do not exist in isolation; time, administrative, and financial burdens intersect with and compound each other. Currently, we have limited evidence-based measures on the objective (e.g., scheduling time, transportation, wait time) and subjective (e.g., mental, emotional and physical stress) measures of time and administrative burden. We have even more limited evidence of the risk factors for and outcomes from increased time and administrative burdens, and how they differentially impact populations across social and demographic groups. In this commentary, we present a research agenda to map, measure, evaluate, and mitigate the time, administrative, and financial burdens of cancer and its care.</p>","PeriodicalId":14809,"journal":{"name":"JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142400261","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}
Lindsey L Page, Theresa P Devasia, Angela Mariotto, Lisa Gallicchio, Michelle A Mollica, Emily Tonorezos
{"title":"Prevalence of cancer survivors diagnosed during adolescence and young adulthood in the United States.","authors":"Lindsey L Page, Theresa P Devasia, Angela Mariotto, Lisa Gallicchio, Michelle A Mollica, Emily Tonorezos","doi":"10.1093/jnci/djae250","DOIUrl":"10.1093/jnci/djae250","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer incidence rates are rising, and survivors are at risk for numerous cancer- and treatment-related consequences. Despite growing attention to this population, prevalence estimates are lacking.</p><p><strong>Purpose: </strong>To estimate the number of individuals living in the United States with a history of cancer diagnosed during the AYA period.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Prevalence of cancer survivors diagnosed between the ages of 15 and 39 years was estimated using data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program as of January 1, 2020. Limited duration prevalence data were also used to generate complete prevalence by sex, years since diagnosis (0-<1, 1-<5, 5-<10, 10-<15, 15-<20, 20+), and attained age (15-19, 20-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-59, 60-69, 70+) for the 15 most common AYA cancer sites.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>There were an estimated 2,111,838 survivors of AYA cancers in the United States as of January 1, 2020. More survivors were female (66%) and long-term (>5 years from diagnosis, 83%) or very long-term survivors (>10 years from diagnosis, 68.8%). A large percentage (44%) were more than 20 years from diagnosis. The most common cancer sites among females were breast (24%) and thyroid cancers (23%) and, among males, testicular cancer (31%). Across the population, the highest percentage of survivors of AYA cancers were 40- to 49-years of age (25.3%).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>There are over 2.1 million cancer survivors diagnosed in the AYA period who are living in the United States; most are more than 10 years from diagnosis.</p>","PeriodicalId":14809,"journal":{"name":"JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142390690","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}