Increased Risk for Nonmedullary Thyroid Cancer in the First Degree Relatives of Prevalent Cases of Nonmedullary Thyroid Cancer: A Hospital-Based Study (original) (raw)

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1Center for Research in Women’s Health, Sunnybrook and Women’s College Health Sciences Center (T.P., S.B., S.A.N.), Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 1N8

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2Unit of Genetic Epidemiology, International Agency for Research on Cancer (F.D.V., H.R., D.E.G.), 69008 Lyon, France

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3Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Medicine, Montréal General Hospital and Cancer Prevention Research Unit, Sir Mortimer B. Davis-Jewish General Hospital, McGill University (P.O.C., K.S., T.K.), Montréal, Québec, Canada H3G 1A4

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4Department of Radiation Oncology, Princess Margaret Hospital, University Health Network (R.T., J.B.), Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 2M9

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4Department of Radiation Oncology, Princess Margaret Hospital, University Health Network (R.T., J.B.), Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 2M9

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2Unit of Genetic Epidemiology, International Agency for Research on Cancer (F.D.V., H.R., D.E.G.), 69008 Lyon, France

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3Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Medicine, Montréal General Hospital and Cancer Prevention Research Unit, Sir Mortimer B. Davis-Jewish General Hospital, McGill University (P.O.C., K.S., T.K.), Montréal, Québec, Canada H3G 1A4

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01 November 2001

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Tuya Pal, Florian D. Vogl, Pierre O. Chappuis, Richard Tsang, James Brierley, Helene Renard, Kevin Sanders, Tania Kantemiroff, Sabira Bagha, David E. Goldgar, Steven A. Narod, William D. Foulkes, Increased Risk for Nonmedullary Thyroid Cancer in the First Degree Relatives of Prevalent Cases of Nonmedullary Thyroid Cancer: A Hospital-Based Study, The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, Volume 86, Issue 11, 1 November 2001, Pages 5307–5312, https://doi.org/10.1210/jcem.86.11.8010
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The genetic basis for nonmedullary forms of thyroid cancer (NMTC) is less well established than that of medullary thyroid cancer. However, epidemiological and family studies suggest that a proportion of NMTC may be due to inherited predisposition. To estimate the familial risk of thyroid cancer, we conducted a hospital-based case-control study at the Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and at 2 university hospitals in Montréal, Québec, Canada. We obtained pedigrees from 339 unselected patients diagnosed with NMTC and from 319 unaffected ethnically matched controls. Family histories of cancer were obtained from the cases and controls for 3292 first degree relatives of cases and controls. Seventeen cases (5.0%) and 2 controls (0.6%) reported at least one first degree relative with thyroid cancer.

In relatives of patients with thyroid cancer, the incidence of any type of cancer (including NMTC) was 38% higher than in relatives of controls (incidence rate ratio, 1.4; 95% confidence interval, 1.1–1.7). The relative risk for thyroid cancer was 10-fold higher in relatives of cancer patients than in controls (incidence rate ratio, 10.3; 95% confidence interval, 2.2–47.6).

Our findings suggest that hereditary or other familial factors are important in a small proportion of NMTC. Molecular studies are needed to determine the genetic basis of cancer susceptibility in these families.

Copyright © 2001 by The Endocrine Society

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