Supplementary Material (Table S1-S3, Figure S1-S2) from High Levels of C-Reactive Protein Are Associated with an Increased Risk of Ovarian Cancer: Results from the Ovarian Cancer Cohort Consortium

Peres, Lauren C.; Mallen, Adrianne R.; Townsend, Mary K.; Poole, Elizabeth M.; Trabert, Britton; Allen, Naomi E.; Arslan, Alan A.; Dossus, Laure; Fortner, Renée T.; Gram, Inger T.; Hartge, Patricia; Idahl, Annika; Kaaks, Rudolf; Kvaskoff, Marina; Magliocco, Anthony M.; Merritt, Melissa A.; Quirós, J. Ramón; Tjonneland, Anne; Trichopoulou, Antonia; Tumino, Rosario; van Gils, Carla H.; Visvanathan, Kala; Wentzensen, Nicolas; Zeleniuch-Jacquotte, Anne; Tworoger, Shelley S.

doi:10.1158/0008-5472.22422207.v1

Supplementary Material (Table S1-S3, Figure S1-S2) from High Levels of C-Reactive Protein Are Associated with an Increased Risk of Ovarian Cancer: Results from the Ovarian Cancer Cohort Consortium

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posted on 2023-03-31, 02:43 authored by Lauren C. Peres, Adrianne R. Mallen, Mary K. Townsend, Elizabeth M. Poole, Britton Trabert, Naomi E. Allen, Alan A. Arslan, Laure Dossus, Renée T. Fortner, Inger T. Gram, Patricia Hartge, Annika Idahl, Rudolf Kaaks, Marina Kvaskoff, Anthony M. Magliocco, Melissa A. Merritt, J. Ramón Quirós, Anne Tjonneland, Antonia Trichopoulou, Rosario Tumino, Carla H. van Gils, Kala Visvanathan, Nicolas Wentzensen, Anne Zeleniuch-Jacquotte, Shelley S. Tworoger

Table S1. Association between CRP and ovarian cancer risk by OC3 study Table S2. Association between CRP and ovarian cancer risk for various sensitivity analyses, including exclusion of PLCO, exclusion of women diagnosed within 2 years of blood draw, additional adjustment for aspirin use, and exclusion of women with cardiovascular disease Table S3. Association between CRP and ovarian cancer risk by time between blood draw and diagnosis Figure S1. Restricted cubic splines of the association between CRP and ovarian cancer risk using two approaches to identify CRP outliers Figure S2. Restricted cubic splines of the association between CRP and risk of serous and non-serous ovarian cancer

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Department of Defense Ovarian Cancer Research

Health Research Fund

Cancer Research

The Research Council of Norway

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ARTICLE ABSTRACT

Growing epidemiologic evidence supports chronic inflammation as a mechanism of ovarian carcinogenesis. An association between a circulating marker of inflammation, C-reactive protein (CRP), and ovarian cancer risk has been consistently observed, yet, potential heterogeneity of this association by tumor and patient characteristics has not been adequately explored. In this study, we pooled data from case–control studies nested within six cohorts in the Ovarian Cancer Cohort Consortium (OC3) to examine the association between CRP and epithelial ovarian cancer risk overall, by histologic subtype and by participant characteristics. CRP concentrations were measured from prediagnosis serum or plasma in 1,091 cases and 1,951 controls. Multivariable conditional logistic regression was used to estimate ORs and 95% confidence intervals (CI). When CRP was evaluated using tertiles, no associations with ovarian cancer risk were observed. A 67% increased ovarian cancer risk was found for women with CRP concentrations >10 mg/L compared with <1 mg/L (OR = 1.67; 95% CI = 1.12–2.48). A CRP concentration >10 mg/L was positively associated with risk of mucinous (OR = 9.67; 95% CI = 1.10–84.80) and endometrioid carcinoma (OR = 3.41; 95% CI = 1.07–10.92), and suggestively positive, although not statistically significant, for serous (OR = 1.43; 95% CI = 0.82–2.49) and clear cell carcinoma (OR = 2.05; 95% CI = 0.36–11.57; Pheterogeneity = 0.20). Heterogeneity was observed with oral contraceptive use (Pinteraction = 0.03), where the increased risk was present only among ever users (OR = 3.24; 95% CI = 1.62–6.47). This study adds to the existing evidence that CRP plays a role in ovarian carcinogenesis and suggests that inflammation may be particularly implicated in the etiology of endometrioid and mucinous carcinoma. C-reactive protein is involved in ovarian carcinogenesis, and chronic inflammation may be particularly implicated in the etiology of mucinous and endometrioid carcinomas.