Association between female breast cancer and cutaneous melanoma

International Journal of Cancer. Journal International Du Cancer
William GogginsH Tsao

Abstract

Epidemiologic studies have provided suggestive evidence of a link between cutaneous melanoma (CM) and breast cancer (BC). Moreover, carriers of mutations in the breast cancer predisposition gene, BRCA2, have an increased risk of melanoma while carriers of mutations in the melanoma susceptibility gene, CDKN2A, exhibit a higher than expected risk of breast cancer. These findings raise the possibility that pathways involved in the development of CM and BC overlap and that survivors of one cancer may be prone to develop the other. To this end, we set out to determine if survivors of female BC in the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Result (SEER) database are at increased risk for CM and vice versa. We followed female BC patients registered in the 1973-1999 SEER database for development of a second CM and female CM patients for the development of a second BC. The expected number of cases was then compared to the observed number of cases using standardized incidence ratios. Overall, we found a modest but statistically significant increased risk of CM among female BC survivors and vice versa. Among young BC patients, we observed a 46% elevated risk of a second CM. Women who underwent radiation therapy exhibited a 42% increased risk ...Continue Reading

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