title: Risk of ovarian cancer in women with first-degree relatives with cancer.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To assess the risk of ovarian cancer in women with first-degree relatives with cancer at one of the four most frequent hereditary sites based on validated cancer diagnoses and to examine the association according to age at diagnosis of ovarian cancer and histology.
  
  
  METHODS
  Case-control study.
  
  
  METHODS
  First-degree relatives of 554 women with invasive epithelial ovarian cancer and 1,564 controls were included.
  
  
  METHODS
  Analyses were performed using multiple logistic regression models.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Ovarian cancer in a first-degree relative was significantly associated with increased risk of ovarian cancer (OR, 2.4; 95% CI, 1.4-4.1 (mother or sister)). Ovarian cancer in a first-degree relative appeared to be a stronger risk factor for early-onset (< or =50 years) ovarian cancer than late-onset (OR, 5.3; 95% CI, 2.0-14.1 vs. OR, 1.8; 95% CI, 1.0-3.4). The positive association with ovarian cancer family history tended to be with non-mucinous tumors. Breast cancer in one first-degree female relative was not significantly associated with risk of ovarian cancer.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Ovarian cancer in a first-degree relative is a very strong predictor of epithelial ovarian cancer, especially early-onset ovarian cancer. Ovarian cancer in first-degree relatives seems to be positively associated with especially non-mucinous tumors.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Denmark.
authors.forename: Marie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Soegaard
authors.forename: Kirsten
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Frederiksen
authors.forename: Allan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jensen
authors.forename: Estrid
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Høgdall
authors.forename: Claus
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Høgdall
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Blaakaer
authors.forename: Susan J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Ramus
authors.forename: Simon A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Gayther
authors.forename: Susanne K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Kjaer
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D017668:Age of Onset; D000368:Aged; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000235:genetics / Q000473:pathology; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D015179:Colorectal Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000235:genetics / Q000473:pathology; D016001:Confidence Intervals; D003718:Denmark / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D020022:Genetic Predisposition to Disease; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009035:Mothers; D016017:Odds Ratio; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000235:genetics / Q000473:pathology; D012307:Risk Factors; D035781:Siblings