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CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENT LIFESTYLE IS DRAMATICALLY RELATED TO LIFETIME CANCER RISK, BUT HOW DO THESE RISK FACTORS OPERATE?Graham A ColditzMay 11. 2017
OverviewEpidemiology shows rates of growth modify risk of pre and postmenopausal breast cancer
Animal models show cell proliferation slows after first full term pregnancy
Parity induce mammary epithelial cells – more stable
Prolactin levels lower
Medina 2005
Cell fate hypothesis¨ Mammary gland post
pubescent female, hormones stimulate proliferation of specific stem cell population, accompanied by molecular switch in these cells that results in persistent changes in regulatory loops governing proliferation and response to DNA damage
Ginger and Rosen 2003
Pike model
¨ Based on epidemiologic data postulated breast tissue age varied according to reproductive risk factors
¨ “To accommodate the higher incidence with late first birth, we add a constant “b” representing an increase in risk with FFTP
Pike et al Nature 1983
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Accumulating risk, multiple birth model
Rosner, Colditz, Willett, Am J Epidemiology 1994;139:826
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Accumulating risk, multiple birth model
Rosner, Colditz, Willett Am J Epidemiology 1994;139:826
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2.5% /yr
Menarche 1st birth Menopause Current age
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Parity and receptor status
Number of pregnancies inversely related to incidence of ER+PR+ breast cancer, unrelated to ER-PR-
Age at first pregnancy – menarche is directly related to risk or ER+PR- and ER- PR-RR per 20 years = 1.5
Rosner et al AJE 2013
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Why does early life matter
Consistent finding that age at menarche is not related to risk of breast cancer among women who develop benign breast disease (BBD)
For these women who developed BBD, breast ca risk accumulation before menarche is comparable to accumulation per year after menarche (9% / yr), whereas for women without BBD rate of increase is 9% after menarche vs 2% before menarche
Colditz and Rosner AJE 2000
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Life-course development of risk accumulation• Long-term effects of early radiation• Menopause – cessation of menstrual cycles leads to
slower risk accumulation• Menopause tells us hormones or accumulation
through premenopausal years must be important• Menarche and height point to early life as important
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Long-term effects of radiation in early life
Land et al. Radiation Research 2003
Atomic bomb survivors, 70,16540 year follow-up1059 cases
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Model of breast cancer developmentWellings-Jensen Model (JNCI 55:231, 1975)
Adapted from Allred
Time (decades)
TDLU
ADH DCIS IBCGrowth
CCH
Ds Adhesion& Polarity Diversity Invasion
Gertig et al 10+ years
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Birth, Childhood, Growth • Height velocity• Adiposity• Diet
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Understanding growth velocity (Stuart study)
Harvard Growth Study (HGS)Females born in 1930s and 1940s, followed to age 18
§ Age at menarche recorded to month§ Annual height measurements (identify year in which girl
experienced most rapid adolescent height growth)§ Mother interviewed annually on dietary intake over past 6
months while child being examined/measured, etc.
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Growth curve of one girl, HGSPeak height velocity = amount of greatest height gain in a single year
Berkey et al. Cancer 1999
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Peak height velocity
Berkey et al. Cancer 1999
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Predictors measured from birth through age 5, HGS
Age at menarche =12.8 (0.12) – 0.38 (0.12)height at age 3 to 5yr + 2.19 (0.91) vegetable protein ages 3 to 5 yr.
Peak height growth velocity = 14.2 + 4.25 (1.07) calories – 0.39 BMI ages 3 to 5yr + 2.08 (0.95) animal protein ages 3 to 5yr
Results consistent when repeated for exposures at age 10
Berkey, …, Colditz AJE 2000; 152:446-52
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Milk and growth velocityPreviously published from GUTS
§ Higher growth velocity increased risk of BBD (Berkey)§ Also, increased risk of pre and postmenopausal breast cancer§ Milk intake positively related to increase in peak height growth
velocity (Berkey CEBP 2009)
Now, meta-analysis of 12 controlled trials§ 0.4cm per year additional height growth for each 8oz
(cup) of milk consumed
De Beer. Dairy products and physical stature. Economics and human biology 2012;10:299-309
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Applying peak height growth velocity: Nurses’ Health Study and adolescent cohort (GUTS)
Higher peak height growth velocity (PHGV) associated with increased risk of pre and post menopausal breast cancer• Highest vs. lowest quintile of PHGV; 8.9cm/yr vs. <7.6
cm/yr; § RR=1.31 premenopausal breast cancer§ RR=1.40 postmenopausal breast cancer
For Benign Breast Disease same range in PHGV gave RR = 2.10 Berkey et al. Cancer 1999 & 2011
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Danish Cohort confirms growth velocity finding
• 141,393 girls, measured height annually in school• Linked to cancer registry• 3340 cases of breast cancer• Height increase age 8 to 14 positively related to
risk of breast cancer before age 50 and after§ RR per 5 cm = 1.15 (1.05, 1.27): age <50 yr.§ RR per 5 cm = 1.18 (1.07, 1.30): age 50+ yr.
Ahlgren et al. NEJM 2004; 351:1619-26
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Childhood adiposity related toEarlier menarche & lower growth height velocity• Significant inverse relation with all molecular
subtypes of breast cancer/ premenopausal and postmenopausal breast cancer§ Baer et al Tamimi et al
• Adiposity at age 7 associated with lower odds of dense breast.§ Anderson et al Breast Ca Res 2014
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Validated measure of childhood adiposity, age 5, 10
Significant decrease in risk of premenopausal and postmenopausal breast cancer for each unit increase in body size
Baer et al AJE 2010
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Relation to receptor statusInverse relation for adiposity at age 10 to 20 for • ER+ and ER- and for • Her2+ and Her2-• Stronger for ER- / PR-Replicated with central pathology testing of invasive breast cancer cases (Tamimi 2012), BMI at 18 inverse related to basal like BrCa
Effectsofobesityonbreastcancer
• Obesityiswell-establishedasariskfactorforpost-menopausalbreastcancer.
• Obesityisprotectiveforpre-menopausalbreastcancer
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Cross-TREC Project CA155626, U54 CA155435, U54 CA155496, and PO1 CA 087969)
See Rosner,…., Colditz Br Ca Res Treat 2015 and forthcoming
Study Population• Prospective observational study of 77,232 women in the Nurses’ Health
Study, followed from 1980 to 2012, over 1,590,730 person-years with weight and other breast cancer risk factors updated every 2 years
• 4,965 incident invasive breast cancer cases
• ER/PR status obtained from pathology reports and medical records yielding• 2,412 ER+/PR+ cases• 662 ER-/PR- cases• 598 ER+/PR- casesCases with missing subtype data were censored at the time of diagnosis for subtype-specific analyses
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0 10 18 30 47 Age(years)
Premenopausal Postmenopausal
50
+kg
Post-menopausalBreastCancerRisk -
1 0.80 0.98 1.36(weightchangefrom18toattained)
Adiposity
1.37(weightchangeaftermenopausaltoattained)
Reference:Rosner,B.,Eliassen,A.H.,Toriola,A.T.,Chen,W.Y.,Hankinson,S.E.,Willett,W.C.,...&Colditz,G.A.(2017).Weightandweightchangesinearlyadulthoodandlaterbreastcancerrisk. Internationaljournalofcancer, 140(9),2003-2014.
+kg+kg
Age(years)
-1
Pre-menopausalBreastCancerRisk
0.66 0.74 1.0
0 10 18 30 47 Age(years)
Premenopausal Postmenopausal
50
+kg
Post-menopausalBreastCancerRisk -
1 0.80 0.981.36 1.36(weightchangefrom18toattained)
Adiposity
1.37(weightchangeaftermenopausaltoattained)
Reference:Rosner,B.,Eliassen,A.H.,Toriola,A.T.,Chen,W.Y.,Hankinson,S.E.,Willett,W.C.,...&Colditz,G.A.(2017).Weightandweightchangesinearlyadulthoodandlaterbreastcancerrisk. Internationaljournalofcancer, 140(9),2003-2014.
+kg+kg
Age(years)
-1
Pre-menopausalBreastCancerRisk
0.66 0.74 1.0
ER-/PR-BreastCancerRiskRR/30kg
0.73(0.55-0.98)
0.70(0.46-1.05) Weightchangeunrelatedtorisk
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Other consistent relations TNBC• Lactation decreases risk of triple negative breast
cancer
• Short term weight gain increases risk• Premenopausal short term weight gain increased
risk of ER+/PR- and ER-/PR- but not ER+PR+ breast cancer
• Postmenopausal weight gain related to ER+PR+
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Mechanisms and prevention • What are the mechanisms underlying these
consistent findings• How can we harness these pathways for prevention?
Bernard Rosner, Catherine Berkey, Rulla Tamimi, Stuart Schnitt, Laura Collins, Jim Connolly, Tunji Toriola, Aliya Alimujiang, Siobhan SutcliffeBreast Cancer Research Foundation for support
Thank collaborators
Thank collaborators