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Urinary bisphenol A-glucuronide and postmenopausal breast cancer in Poland

Cancer Causes & Control volume 25, pages 1587–1593 (2014)Cite this article

Abstract

Purpose

Concerns regarding a possible link between bisphenol A (BPA) and breast cancer have been mounting, but studies in human populations are lacking. We evaluated the association between the major urinary BPA metabolite [BPA-glucuronide (BPA-G)] and postmenopausal breast cancer risk in a large population-based case–control study conducted in two cities in Poland (2000–2003); we further explored the association of BPA-G levels with known postmenopausal breast cancer risk factors in our control population.

Methods

We analyzed creatinine-adjusted urinary BPA-G levels among 575 postmenopausal cases matched on age and study site to 575 controls without breast cancer using a recently developed assay. Odds ratios and 95 % confidence intervals were used to estimate the association between urinary BPA-G level and breast cancer using conditional logistic regression. Among controls, geometric mean BPA-G levels were compared across categories of breast cancer risk factors using linear regression models.

Results

There was no indication that increased BPA-G was associated with postmenopausal breast cancer (p-trend = 0.59). Among controls, mean BPA-G was higher among women reporting extended use of menopausal hormones, a prior screening mammogram, and residence in Warsaw. Other comparisons across strata of postmenopausal breast cancer risk factors were not related to differences in BPA-G.

Conclusions

Urinary BPA-G, measured at the time of diagnosis, is not linked to postmenopausal breast cancer.

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Acknowledgments

This research was supported by the Intramural Research Program of the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics and by contracts from the Division of Cancer Prevention, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services.

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  1. Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Department of Health and Human Services, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, 9609 Medical Center Drive, Room 7E-228, Bethesda, MD, 20892-9774, USA

    Britton Trabert, Roni T. Falk, Jonine D. Figueroa, Barry I. Graubard & Louise A. Brinton

  2. The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, London, UK

    Montserrat Garcia-Closas

  3. Department of Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention, Cancer Center and M. Sklodowska-Curie Institute of Oncology, Warsaw, Poland

    Jolanta Lissowska

  4. Department of Environmental Epidemiology, Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine, Lodz, Poland

    Beata Peplonska

  5. Protein Characterization Laboratory, Cancer Research Technology Program, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc., Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, MD, USA

    Stephen D. Fox

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Trabert, B., Falk, R.T., Figueroa, J.D. et al. Urinary bisphenol A-glucuronide and postmenopausal breast cancer in Poland. Cancer Causes Control 25, 1587–1593 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10552-014-0461-8

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Keywords

  • Breast cancer
  • Bisphenol A-glucuronide
  • Postmenopausal
  • Case–control