Random Digit Dialing in Selecting a Population-Based Control Group

Hartge, Patricia; Brinton, Louise A.; Rosenthal, Jeanne F.; Cahill, John I; Hoover, Robert N.; Waksberg, Joseph

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“…In addition, eligible control probands were English-speaking and could be contacted by phone. Random digit dialing techniques based on the Waksberg method were used to recruit control probands 13 . Of the 550 people invited to participate in the study, 420 (76%) agreed.…”

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Risk of Other Cancers in Individuals with a Family History of Pancreas Cancer

Coté

Schenk

Schwartz

et al. 2007

J Gastrointest Canc

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Background-Inherited predisposition to pancreas cancer accounts for approximately 10% of cases. Familial aggregation may be influenced by shared environmental factors and shared genes. We evaluate whether a family history of pancreas cancer is a risk factor for ten specified cancers in first-degree relatives: bladder, breast, colon, head & neck, lung, lymphoma, melanoma, ovary, pancreas and prostate.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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Risk of Other Cancers in Individuals with a Family History of Pancreas Cancer

Coté

Schenk

Schwartz

et al. 2007

J Gastrointest Canc

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“…Race-and sex-matched local controls, frequency-matched to the cases on age, were identified through the technique of random-digit-dialing (29). Telephone numbers, matched to case numbers on area code and the first 3 of 7 digits, were obtained from Survey Sampling, Inc. (Fairfield, CT).…”

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Lack of association between augmentation mammoplasty and systemic sclerosis (scleroderma)

Hochberg

Perlmutter

Medsger

et al. 1996

Arthritis & Rheumatism

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Objective.To examine the possible association between augmentation mammoplasty and systemic sclerosis (SSc; scleroderma).Methods. Eight hundred thirty-seven women with a clinical diagnosis of SSc, recruited as a volunteer sample from 3 university-based, tertiary care scleroderma clinical research centers, and 2,507 race-matched local control women, recruited by the technique of random-digit-dialing and frequency-matched on age, completed a questionnaire providing data on history of augmentation mammoplasty, including possible complications of the procedure. The odds ratio (OR) and 95 percent confidence interval (95% CI) for the association of augmentation mammoplasty with SSc were estimated Presented in part at the 56th National Meeting of the American College of Rheumatology, .4tlanta, GA, October 1 9 2 , the 57th National Meeting of the American College of Rheumatology, San Antonio, TX, November 1993 by multivariate logistic regression analysis with adjustment for age, race and center, and by conditional logistic regression analysis with adjustment for age.Results. Eleven (131%) of the 837 cases reported a history of augmentation mammoplasty prior to diagnosis of SSc, compared with 31 (1.24%) of the 2,507 controls. The adjusted OR from the unmatched analysis was 1.07 (95% CI 0.53-2.13), while that from the matched analysis was 1.11 (95% CI 0.55-2.24). Conclusion.These results fail to demonstrate a significant association between augmentation mammoplasty and SSc, and are consistent with those reported from other epidemiologic studies.Thirty years ago, Miyoshi and colleagues published the first report of patients with a presumed connective tissue disease following cosmetic breast augmentation by direct injection of liquid paraffin and silicone (1). In 1984, Kumagai and colleagues described 11 patients with definite connective tissue disease and 7 with possible connective tissue disease and reviewed 28 additional cases from the Japanese literature (2). All of these patients had breast augmentation by injection of a foreign substance, most commonly paraffin or silicone, and 8 had a diagnosis of systemic sclerosis (SSc; scleroderma). The first report of patients developing definite connective tissue disease following augmentation mammoplasty with silicone gel-filled breast implants was presented by van Nunen and colleagues in 1982 (3). Numerous case reports and case series describing patients with rheumatic disease symptoms and connective tissue diseases following augmentation mammoplasty with silicone gel-filled breast implants were published during the ensuing decade (4-20). In a review of the English-language literature published from 1979 through June 1993, Sanchez-Guerrero and colleagues identified reports of 293 patients with rheumatic disease symptoms following augmentation mammoplasty with silicone gel-filled breast implants; of 57 patients with a 1126 HOCHBERG ET AL definite connective tissue disease, 38 (66.7%) had a diagnosis of SSc (21). Subsequent to that review, data on 376 patients with rheumatic sy...

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“…For living cases under the age of 65, controls were selected by 2-stage random digit dialing. 22 For living cases aged 65 and over, controls were selected from the records of the Health Care Financing Administration. Controls for deceased cases were selected from death records in each state, with additional matching for year of death.…”

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Non‐Hodgkin's lymphoma among asthmatics exposed to pesticides

Lee

Cantor

Berzofsky

et al. 2004

Intl Journal of Cancer

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We conducted a pooled analysis of population-based casecontrol studies in Iowa, Minnesota and Nebraska to investigate whether asthma modifies risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) associated with pesticide exposures. Cases (n ‫؍‬ 872) diagnosed with NHL from 1980 to 1986 and frequency-matched controls (n ‫؍‬ 2,381) randomly selected from the same geographic areas as the cases were included. Information on use of pesticides and history of asthma was based on interviews. Unconditional logistic regression was used to calculate ORs, adjusted for age, state and vital status. Of all subjects, 177 (45 cases, 132 controls) reported having been told by their doctor that they had asthma. Subjects with an asthma history had a nonsignificantly lower risk of NHL than nonasthmatics (OR ‫؍‬ 0.6, 95% CI 0.3-1.4), and there was no main effect of pesticide exposure (OR ‫؍‬ 1.0, 95% CI 0.8 -1.2). However, asthmatics tended to have larger ORs associated with exposure to pesticides than nonasthmatics. The OR among asthmatics was 1.8 (95% CI 1.1-3.2) for everuse of crop insecticides, 2.7 (95% CI 1.0 -7.2) for chlordane, 2.4 (95% CI 1.0 -5.7) for lindane and 3.7 (95% CI 1.3-10.9) for fonofos. Among nonasthmatics, ORs were 1.1 (0.9 -1.3), 1. Incidence and mortality rates for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) have been increasing worldwide over the past several decades. 1 Although the reasons for this increase are not fully understood, NHL is known to be associated with a compromised immune system, particularly acquired or genetic immunodeficiencies. 2,3 Medical conditions related to more subtle immune alteration, such as asthma and other allergic conditions, have also been studied as potential risk factors for NHL. 4 -10 These reports have described a decreased risk for NHL among persons with a history of asthma or allergies, 4,5 no association 6 -8 or an increase in risk. 9,10 Exposure to pesticides has also been suggested as a possible risk factor for NHL. [11][12][13][14][15] Pesticides may increase cancer risk by altering the immune system. 16 -19 Because both asthma and pesticide exposure may change the risk of NHL by immunologic alterations, we investigated the relation between pesticide exposure, asthma and risk of NHL. MATERIAL AND METHODS Study populationWe pooled data from 2 population-based case-control studies of NHL in 3 midwestern states in the United States, which have been described in detail previously. 20,21 In Iowa and Minnesota, all newly diagnosed cases of NHL among white men aged Ն30 were ascertained from records of the Iowa State Health Registry and a special surveillance system of Minnesota hospitals and pathology laboratories from 1980 to 1983 (n ϭ 530). In Nebraska, all cases of NHL diagnosed between July 1983 and June 1986 among white men and women aged Ն21 in 45 eastern counties were identified through the Nebraska Lymphoma Study Group and area hospitals (n ϭ 346). All cases were reviewed by pathologists, and only histologically confirmed cases were included in this analysis. Controls were randomly selected from ...

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Random Digit Dialing in Selecting a Population-Based Control Group

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Risk of Other Cancers in Individuals with a Family History of Pancreas Cancer

Risk of Other Cancers in Individuals with a Family History of Pancreas Cancer

Lack of association between augmentation mammoplasty and systemic sclerosis (scleroderma)

Non‐Hodgkin's lymphoma among asthmatics exposed to pesticides

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