American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 128, No. 6: 1228-1240
Copyright © 1988 by The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health
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PERSONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHARACTERISTICS RELATED TO EPITHELIAL OVARIAN CANCER
II. EXPOSURES TO TALCUM POWDER, TOBACCO, ALCOHOL, AND COFFEE
1Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford, CA.
2 444 High Street, Palo Alto, CA
3Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford, CA
Whittemore, A. S. (Stanford U. School of Medicine, Dept. of Health Research and Policy, Stanford, CA 94305–5092), M. L. Wu, R. S. Paffenbarger, Jr., D. L. Sarles, J. B. Kampert, S. Grosser, D. L Jung, S. Ballon, and M. Hendrickson. Personal and environmental characteristics related to epithelial ovarian cancer. II. Exposures to talcum powder, tobacco, alcohol, and coffee. Am J Epidemiol 1988;128:1228–40.
Vaginal exposures to talc and other particulates may play an etiologic role in epithelial ovarian cancer. Surgical sterilization may protect against ovarian cancer by blocking entry of such particulates into the peritoneal cavity. The authors assessed histories of talcum powder use, tubal sterilization, and hysterectomy with ovarian conservation in 188 women in the San Francisco Bay Area with epithelial ovarian cancers diagnosed in 1983–1985 and in 539 control women. To investigate the roles of blood-borne environmental exposures on ovarian cancer risk, they assessed lifetime consumption of coffee, tobacco, and alcohol in these women. Of the 539 controls, 280 were hospitalized women without overt cancer, and 259 were chosen from the general population by random digit telephone dialing. Ninety-seven (52%) of the cancer patients habitually used talcum powder on the perineum, compared with 247 (46%) of the controls. Adjusted for parity, the relative risk (RR) = 1.40, p = 0.06. There were no statistically significant trends with increasing frequency or duration of talc use, and patients did not differ from controls in use of talc on sanitary pads and/or contraceptive diaphragms. Fewer ovarian cancer patients (7%) than controls (13%) reported prior fallopian tube ligation (RR, adjusted for parity, = 0.56, p = 0.06), and fewer patients (20%) than controls (28%) reported prior hysterectomy (RR = 0.66, p = 0.05). The protective effect of hysterectomy was confined to those who underwent this surgery 10 or more years prior to interview and to those who had not undergone prior tubal sterilization. Consumption of cigarettes and alcohol did not differ between cases and controls. By contrast, 11 (6%) cases never regularly consumed coffee, compared with 31 (11%) hospital controls and 26 (10%) population controls (RR, adjusted for smoking, = 2.2, p = 0.03, for the comparison using all controls). Overall, ovarian cancer risk among women who had drunk coffee for more than 40 years was 3.4 times that of women who had never regularly consumed coffee (p < 0.01). However, the data exhibited no clear trends in risk with increasing consumption. Although risk ratios relating duration of coffee drinking to ovarian cancer were unaffected by adjustment for several characteristics, further study is needed to exclude potential confounding by other unmeasured characteristics.
alcohol drinking; coffee; environmental exposure; hysterectomy; ovarian neoplasms; talc; tobacco; sterilization; tubal
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