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GYNECOLOGIC ONCOLOGY
Volume 118, Issue 3, Pages 295-298Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2010.05.012
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Pre-invasive lesions; Fallopian tube; p53 signature; Risk factors; Tubal intra-epithelial carcinoma
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Objective. To identify risk factors for the presence of a non-invasive lesion of the fallopian tube in women with a BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation. Methods. 173 BRCA mutation carriers underwent a prophylactic salpingo-oophorectomy at the University Health Network, Toronto between 2000 and 2008 and were evaluated for the presence of a non-invasive lesion of the fallopian tube. Patients were classified as having p53 overexpression (p53-signature), a tubal intra-epithelial carcinoma (TIC) or normal tubal epithelium. We obtained a risk factor questionnaire from all patients. We calculated odds ratios for several risk factors, comparing patients with a tubal abnormality to those with normal histology. Results. Of the 173 patients, 43 (25%) were found to have a tubal lesion, including 23% of the BRCA1 mutation carriers and 27% of the BRCA2 mutation carriers. The prevalence of a non-invasive tubal lesion increased with age; an abnormality was present in 5% of women who had surgery before the age of 40 (1 of 12) and in 56% of women who underwent surgery at age 60 or above (6 of 13; p = 0.004). A non-invasive lesion of either type was found in 31.2% of women with a BMI >25 kg/m(2)) compared to 18.0% of patients with a BMI <25 kg/m(2) at the time of surgery (p = 0.05). The average duration of oral contraceptive use among women with normal tubes was 6.0 years, compared to an average duration of 4.0 years for women with a p53 signature (p = 0.09) and was 2.7 years for women with a TIC (p = 0.0003). Conclusion. The prevalence of tubal p53 signature and TIC increases with age at salpingectomy and with BMI. Oral contraceptive use is associated with a decrease in the prevalence of TICs. (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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