Genetic susceptibility to radiation-induced breast cancer after Hodgkin lymphoma.
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Date
2019-03-07ICR Author
Author
Opstal-van Winden, AWJ
de Haan, HG
Hauptmann, M
Schmidt, MK
Broeks, A
Russell, NS
Janus, CPM
Krol, ADG
van der Baan, FH
De Bruin, ML
van Eggermond, AM
Dennis, J
Anton-Culver, H
Haiman, CA
Sawyer, EJ
Cox, A
Devilee, P
Hooning, MJ
Peto, J
Couch, FJ
Pharoah, P
Orr, N
Easton, DF
Aleman, BMP
Strong, LC
Bhatia, S
Cooke, R
Robison, LL
Swerdlow, AJ
van Leeuwen, FE
Type
Journal Article
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Female Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) patients treated with chest radiotherapy (RT) have a very high risk of breast cancer. The contribution of genetic factors to this risk is unclear. We therefore examined 211 155 germline single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) for gene-radiation interaction on breast cancer risk in a case-only analysis including 327 breast cancer patients after chest RT for HL and 4671 first primary breast cancer patients. Nine SNPs showed statistically significant interaction with RT on breast cancer risk (false discovery rate, <20%), of which 1 SNP in the PVT1 oncogene attained the Bonferroni threshold for statistical significance. A polygenic risk score (PRS) composed of these SNPs (RT-interaction-PRS) and a previously published breast cancer PRS (BC-PRS) derived in the general population were evaluated in a case-control analysis comprising the 327 chest-irradiated HL patients with breast cancer and 491 chest-irradiated HL patients without breast cancer. Patients in the highest tertile of the RT-interaction-PRS had a 1.6-fold higher breast cancer risk than those in the lowest tertile. Remarkably, we observed a fourfold increased RT-induced breast cancer risk in the highest compared with the lowest decile of the BC-PRS. On a continuous scale, breast cancer risk increased 1.4-fold per standard deviation of the BC-PRS, similar to the effect size found in the general population. This study demonstrates that genetic factors influence breast cancer risk after chest RT for HL. Given the high absolute breast cancer risk in radiation-exposed women, these results can have important implications for the management of current HL survivors and future patients.
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Subject
Humans
Hodgkin Disease
Breast Neoplasms
Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced
Neoplasms, Second Primary
Genetic Predisposition to Disease
Radiotherapy Dosage
Odds Ratio
Risk
Regression Analysis
Case-Control Studies
Genotype
Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
Quality Control
Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Middle Aged
Female
Young Adult
Cancer Survivors
Research team
Aetiological Epidemiology
Language
eng
Date accepted
2018-12-12
License start date
2019-03
Citation
Blood, 2019, 133 (10), pp. 1130 - 1139
Publisher
AMER SOC HEMATOLOGY