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Perfluorinated compounds are related to breast cancer risk in greenlandic inuit: A case control study
BACKGROUND: Breast cancer (BC) is the most common cancer for women in the western world. From very few cases an extraordinary increase in BC was observed in the Inuit population of Greenland and Canada although still lower than in western populations. Previous data suggest that exposure to persisten...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3203030/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21978366 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-069X-10-88 |
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author | Bonefeld-Jorgensen, Eva C Long, Manhai Bossi, Rossana Ayotte, Pierre Asmund, Gert Krüger, Tanja Ghisari, Mandana Mulvad, Gert Kern, Peder Nzulumiki, Peter Dewailly, Eric |
author_facet | Bonefeld-Jorgensen, Eva C Long, Manhai Bossi, Rossana Ayotte, Pierre Asmund, Gert Krüger, Tanja Ghisari, Mandana Mulvad, Gert Kern, Peder Nzulumiki, Peter Dewailly, Eric |
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description | BACKGROUND: Breast cancer (BC) is the most common cancer for women in the western world. From very few cases an extraordinary increase in BC was observed in the Inuit population of Greenland and Canada although still lower than in western populations. Previous data suggest that exposure to persistent organic pollutants (POPs) might contribute to the risk of BC. Rat studies showed that perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) cause significantly increase in mammary fibroadenomas. This study aimed at evaluating the association between serum levels of POPs/PFCs in Greenlandic Inuit BC cases and their controls, and whether the combined POP related effect on nuclear hormone receptors affect BC risk. METHODS: Thirty-one BC cases and 115 controls were sampled during 2000-2003 from various Greenlandic districts. The serum levels of POPs, PFCs, some metals and the combined serum POP related effect on estrogen- (ER), androgen- (AR) and Ah-receptor (AhR) transactivity were determined. Independent student t-test was used to compare the differences and the odds ratios were estimated by unconditional logistic regression models. RESULTS: We observed for the very first time a significant association between serum PFC levels and the risk of BC. The BC cases also showed a significantly higher concentration of polychlorinated biphenyls at the highest quartile. Also for the combined serum POP induced agonistic AR transactivity significant association to BC risk was found, and cases elicited a higher frequency of samples with significant POP related hormone-like agonistic ER transactivity. The AhR toxic equivalent was lowest in cases. CONCLUSIONS: The level of serum POPs, particularly PFCs, might be risk factors in the development of BC in Inuit. Hormone disruption by the combined serum POP related xenoestrogenic and xenoandrogenic activities may contribute to the risk of developing breast cancer in Inuit. Further investigations are needed to document these study conclusions. |
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spelling | pubmed-32030302011-10-28 Perfluorinated compounds are related to breast cancer risk in greenlandic inuit: A case control study Bonefeld-Jorgensen, Eva C Long, Manhai Bossi, Rossana Ayotte, Pierre Asmund, Gert Krüger, Tanja Ghisari, Mandana Mulvad, Gert Kern, Peder Nzulumiki, Peter Dewailly, Eric Environ Health Research BACKGROUND: Breast cancer (BC) is the most common cancer for women in the western world. From very few cases an extraordinary increase in BC was observed in the Inuit population of Greenland and Canada although still lower than in western populations. Previous data suggest that exposure to persistent organic pollutants (POPs) might contribute to the risk of BC. Rat studies showed that perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) cause significantly increase in mammary fibroadenomas. This study aimed at evaluating the association between serum levels of POPs/PFCs in Greenlandic Inuit BC cases and their controls, and whether the combined POP related effect on nuclear hormone receptors affect BC risk. METHODS: Thirty-one BC cases and 115 controls were sampled during 2000-2003 from various Greenlandic districts. The serum levels of POPs, PFCs, some metals and the combined serum POP related effect on estrogen- (ER), androgen- (AR) and Ah-receptor (AhR) transactivity were determined. Independent student t-test was used to compare the differences and the odds ratios were estimated by unconditional logistic regression models. RESULTS: We observed for the very first time a significant association between serum PFC levels and the risk of BC. The BC cases also showed a significantly higher concentration of polychlorinated biphenyls at the highest quartile. Also for the combined serum POP induced agonistic AR transactivity significant association to BC risk was found, and cases elicited a higher frequency of samples with significant POP related hormone-like agonistic ER transactivity. The AhR toxic equivalent was lowest in cases. CONCLUSIONS: The level of serum POPs, particularly PFCs, might be risk factors in the development of BC in Inuit. Hormone disruption by the combined serum POP related xenoestrogenic and xenoandrogenic activities may contribute to the risk of developing breast cancer in Inuit. Further investigations are needed to document these study conclusions. BioMed Central 2011-10-06 /pmc/articles/PMC3203030/ /pubmed/21978366 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-069X-10-88 Text en Copyright ©2011 Bonefeld-Jorgensen et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Bonefeld-Jorgensen, Eva C Long, Manhai Bossi, Rossana Ayotte, Pierre Asmund, Gert Krüger, Tanja Ghisari, Mandana Mulvad, Gert Kern, Peder Nzulumiki, Peter Dewailly, Eric Perfluorinated compounds are related to breast cancer risk in greenlandic inuit: A case control study |
title | Perfluorinated compounds are related to breast cancer risk in greenlandic inuit: A case control study |
title_full | Perfluorinated compounds are related to breast cancer risk in greenlandic inuit: A case control study |
title_fullStr | Perfluorinated compounds are related to breast cancer risk in greenlandic inuit: A case control study |
title_full_unstemmed | Perfluorinated compounds are related to breast cancer risk in greenlandic inuit: A case control study |
title_short | Perfluorinated compounds are related to breast cancer risk in greenlandic inuit: A case control study |
title_sort | perfluorinated compounds are related to breast cancer risk in greenlandic inuit: a case control study |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3203030/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21978366 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-069X-10-88 |
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