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Abstract Title:

Urinary melatonin in relation to postmenopausal breast cancer risk according to melatonin 1 receptor status.

Abstract Source:

Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2016 Nov 9. Epub 2016 Nov 9. PMID: 28151704

Abstract Author(s):

Elizabeth E Devore, Erica T Warner, Heather Eliassen, Susan B Brown, Andrew H Beck, Susan Hankinson, Eva Schernhammer

Article Affiliation:

Elizabeth E Devore

Abstract:

BACKGROUND: Urinary melatonin levels have been associated with a reduced risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women, but this association might vary according to tumor melatonin 1 receptor (MT1R) expression.

METHODS: We conducted a nested case-control study among 1,354 postmenopausal women in the Nurses' Health Study, who were cancer free when they provided first-morning spot urine samples in 2000-2002; urine samples were assayed for 6-sulfatoxymelatonin (aMT6s, a major metabolite of melatonin). Five-hundred fifty-five of these women developed breast cancer before May 31, 2012, and were matched to 799 control subjects. In a subset of cases, immunohistochemistry was used to determine MT1R status of tumor tissue. We used multivariable-adjusted conditional logistic regression to estimate the relative risk (RR) of breast cancer (with 95% confidence intervals [CI]) across quartiles of creatinine-standardized urinary aMT6s level, including by MT1R subtype.

RESULTS: Higher urinary melatonin levels were suggestively associated with a lower overall risk of breast cancer (multivariable-adjusted RR=0.78, 95% CI=0.61-0.99, comparing quartile 4 vs. quartile 1; p-trend=0.08); this association was similar for invasive vs. in situ tumors (p-heterogeneity=0.12). There was no evidence that associations differed according to MT1R status of the tumor (e.g., p-heterogeneity for overall breast cancer=0.88).

CONCLUSION: Higher urinary melatonin levels were associated with reduced breast cancer risk in this cohort of postmenopausal women, and the association was not modified by MT1R subtype.

IMPACT: Urinary melatonin levels appear to predict the risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women. However, future research should evaluate these associations with longer-term follow-up and among premenopausal women.

Study Type : Human Study

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