Importance of tumor location and histology in familial risk of upper gastrointestinal cancers: a nationwide cohort study

Clinical Epidemiology
E KharazmiKari Hemminki

Abstract

Familial clustering of upper gastrointestinal (UGI) cancers and the significance of family history has been addressed previously. We aimed to elucidate the familial risk based on the specified tumor location and histology. In the Swedish Family-Cancer Database, we determined the familial risk of UGI cancer patients diagnosed (1958-2015) with esophageal and gastric cancer by tumor location using standardized incidence ratios (SIRs). Risk of esophageal cancer in first-degree relatives (FDRs) of patients with esophageal cancer increased 2.4-fold (SIR 95% CI 2.0-2.8), whereas risk of esophageal cancer in cases with family history of cancer in the middle third of the esophagus increased 3.4-fold (SIR 95% CI 2.1-5.1). Risk of gastric cancer in FDRs increased 1.6-fold (SIR 95% CI 1.5-1.7), occurrence of concordant subsite gastric cancer in the antrum, body, and cardia was 5.5-fold (SIR 95% CI 2.4-11), 4.6-fold (SIR 95% CI 2.6-7.4), and 1.7-fold (SIR 95% CI 1.1-2.5), respectively. Familial risk of concordant histological subtype in esophageal cancer was 4.1-fold for squamous cell carcinoma (SIR 95% CI 3.2-5.2) and 3.6-fold for adenocarcinoma (SIR 95% CI 2.5-5.1). The risk of concordant gastric adenocarcinoma was 1.6-fold for one affect...Continue Reading

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Aug 11, 2021·European Journal of Cancer : Official Journal for European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) [and] European Association for Cancer Research (EACR)·Yonne PetersPeter D Siersema

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