The Long Island Breast Cancer Study Project: Description of a Multi-Institutional Collaboration to Identify Environmental Risk Factors for Breast Cancer

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Marilie D. Gammon1, Alfred I. Neugut2,3, Regina M. Santella4, Susan L. Teitelbaum2, Julie A. Britton5, Mary Beth Terry2, Sybil M. Eng2, Mary S. Wolff5, Steven D. Stellman6, Geoffrey C. Kabat7, Bruce Levin8, H. Leon Bradlow9, Maureen Hatch5, Jan Beyea10, David Camann11, Martin Trent12, Ruby T. Senie2,13, Gail C. Garbowski2, Carla Maffeo14, Pat Montalvan14, Gertrud S. Berkowitz5, Margaret Kemeny15, Marc Citron16, Freya Schnabel17,18, Allan Schuss19, Steven Hajdu20, Vincent Vincguerra21, Gwen W. Collman22, G. Iris Obrams23
1Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
2Division of Epidemiology, Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health, New York
3Department of Medicine, College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York
4Division of Environmental Health Sciences, Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York
5Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, New York
6American Health Foundation, New York
7Department of Preventive Medicine, State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York
8Division of Biostatistics, Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York
9Strang Research Laboratory, Cornell Medical Center, New York
10Consulting in the Public Interest, Lambertville
11Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio
12Suffolk County Department of Health Services, Hauppauge
13Division of Sociomedical Sciences, Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York
14Westat, Inc., Rockville
15Department of Surgery, State University of New York, Stony Brook
16Department of Medicine, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, Queens
17Department of Surgery, Columbia University, College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York
18Department of Surgery, South Nassau Communities Hospital, Oceanside
19Department of Pathology, Winthrop University Hospital, Mineola
20Department of Pathology, North Shore University Hospital, Manhasset
21Don Monti Division of Oncology, North Shore University Hospital, Manhasset
22National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park
23National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, USA

Tóm tắt

The Long Island Breast Cancer Study Project is a federally mandated, population-based case-control study to determine whether breast cancer risk among women in the counties of Nassau and Suffolk, NY, is associated with selected environmental exposures, assessed by blood samples, self-reports, and environmental home samples. This report describes the collaborative project's background, rationale, methods, participation rates, and distributions of known risk factors for breast cancer by case-control status, by blood donation, and by availability of environmental home samples. Interview response rates among eligible cases and controls were 82.1% (n, = 1,508) and 62.8% (n = 1,556), respectively. Among case and control respondents who completed the interviewer-administered questionnaire, 98.2 and 97.6% self-completed the food frequency questionnaire; 73.0 and 73.3% donated a blood sample; and 93.0 and 83.3% donated a urine sample. Among a random sample of case and control respondents who are long-term residents, samples of dust (83.6 and 83.0%); soil (93.5 and 89.7%); and water (94.3 and 93.9%) were collected. Established risk factors for breast cancer that were found to increase risk among Long Island women include lower parity, late age at first birth, little or no breast feeding, and family history of breast cancer. Factors that were found to be associated with a decreased likelihood that a respondent would donate blood include increasing age and past smoking; factors associated with an increased probability include white or other race, alcohol use, ever breastfed, ever use of hormone replacement therapy, ever use of oral contraceptives, and ever had a mammogram. Long-term residents (defined as 15+ years in the interview home) with environmental home samples did not differ from other long-term residents, although there were a number of differences in risk factor distributions between long-term residents and other participants, as anticipated.

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