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American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 128, No. 4: 771-777
Copyright © 1988 by The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health

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REPRODUCTIVE, GENETIC, AND DIETARY RISK FACTORS FOR OVARIAN CANCER

MITSURU MORI1,, IZUMI HARABUCHI2, HIROTSUGU MIYAKE1, JOHN T. CASAGRANDE3, BRIAN E. HENDERSON2 and RONALD K. ROSS3

1 Department of Public Health, Sapporo Medical College South 1, West 17, Chuo-ku, Sapporo 060, Japan
2 Health Service Division, Sapporo Hospital of Japanese Railways Hokkaido Sapporo, Japan
3 Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California School of Medicine Los Angeles, CA

Send reprint requests to Dr. Mitsuru Mori at this address

A case-control study of 110 women with ovarian epithelial carcinoma and 220 individually age-matched controls was conducted in Hokkaido, Japan, to identify ovarian cancer risk factors. Both the cases and the matched controls were surveyed either from 1980 to 1981 or from 1985 to 1986. Ovarian cancer risk was increased in single women (p < 0.01), and in women with a family history of breast, uterine, or ovarian cancer in a mother or sister (p < 0.001). Conversely, risk was decreased in women who had experienced a livebirth (p < 0.001), an induced abortion (p < 0.05), or who had had permanent sterilization by tubal ligation (p < 0.05). Each of the reproductive factors remained significant when adjusted for each other using logistic regression analysis. The odds ratio for ovarian cancer decreased significantly with increasing number of livebirths (p < 0.001). Furthermore, a significant negative association between anovulatory periods and ovarian cancer risk was noted (p < 0.01). No association was observed for any types of contraceptive methods other than tubal ligation, but the prevalence of oral contraceptive use was very low. A significant positive association with daily fish consumption (p < 0.05) and a marginally significant negative association with daily milk consumption (p = 0.05) were also observed.

anovulatlon; diet; neoplastic syndromes; hereditary; ovarian neoplasms; reproduction; retrospective studies


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