
Tanja Stocks
Project manager

Circulating insulin-like growth factor I in relation to melanoma risk in the European prospective investigation into cancer and nutrition
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Summary, in English
Insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) regulates cell proliferation and apoptosis, and is thought to play a role in tumour development. Previous prospective studies have shown that higher circulating concentrations of IGF-I are associated with a higher risk of cancers at specific sites, including breast and prostate. No prospective study has examined the association between circulating IGF-I concentrations and melanoma risk. A nested case–control study of 1,221 melanoma cases and 1,221 controls was performed in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition cohort, a prospective cohort of 520,000 participants recruited from 10 European countries. Conditional logistic regression was used to estimate odds ratios (ORs) for incident melanoma in relation to circulating IGF-I concentrations, measured by immunoassay. Analyses were conditioned on the matching factors and further adjusted for age at blood collection, education, height, BMI, smoking status, alcohol intake, marital status, physical activity and in women only, use of menopausal hormone therapy. There was no significant association between circulating IGF-I concentration and melanoma risk (OR for highest vs lowest fifth = 0.93 [95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.71 to 1.22]). There was no significant heterogeneity in the association between IGF-I concentrations and melanoma risk when subdivided by gender, age at blood collection, BMI, height, age at diagnosis, time between blood collection and diagnosis, or by anatomical site or histological subtype of the tumour (Pheterogeneity≥0.078). We found no evidence for an association between circulating concentrations of IGF-I measured in adulthood and the risk of melanoma.
Department/s
- Surgery (Lund)
- Lund Melanoma Study Group
- BioCARE: Biomarkers in Cancer Medicine improving Health Care, Education and Innovation
- EpiHealth: Epidemiology for Health
- Diabetes - Cardiovascular Disease
Publishing year
2019
Language
English
Pages
957-966
Publication/Series
International Journal of Cancer
Volume
144
Issue
5
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Topic
- Cancer and Oncology
Keywords
- biomarker
- EPIC
- height
- insulin-like growth factor I
- melanoma
- prospective studies
Status
Published
Research group
- Lund Melanoma Study Group
- Diabetes - Cardiovascular Disease
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 0020-7136