PMID- 35307714 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20220930 LR - 20221004 IS - 1473-5709 (Electronic) IS - 0959-8278 (Linking) VI - 31 IP - 6 DP - 2022 Nov 1 TI - Type 2 diabetes mellitus and cancer of unknown primary risk: results from the Netherlands Cohort Study. PG - 600-608 LID - 10.1097/CEJ.0000000000000749 [doi] AB - OBJECTIVE: Cancer of unknown primary (CUP) is a metastatic malignancy with an unidentifiable primary tumour origin. Previous studies suggest that type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and CUP risk are associated. This study examines the association in greater depth by investigating T2DM status, T2DM duration, T2DM age at diagnosis, and medication that was being used in relation to CUP. METHODS: Data were utilized from the Netherlands Cohort Study, a prospective cohort that includes 120 852 participants aged 55-69 years at baseline in 1986. All participants completed a self-administered questionnaire on cancer risk factors. CUP cases were identified through record linkage with the Netherlands Cancer Registry and Dutch Pathology Registry. After 20.3 years of follow-up, 963 incident CUP cases and 4288 subcohort members were available for case-cohort analyses. Proportional hazards models were employed to estimate multivariable-adjusted hazard ratios (HRs). RESULTS: Overall, we observed a nonsignificant positive association between T2DM status and CUP risk [HR, 1.35; 95% confidence interval (CI), 0.92-1.99], which increased in women after stratification for sex (HR, 1.55; 95% CI, 0.90-2.64). For participants who were aged less than 50 years at diagnosis of T2DM, a statistically significant positive association was found in relation to CUP (HR, 2.42; 95% CI, 1.26-4.65), compared with participants without T2DM. CONCLUSION: Our findings indicate that there is a nonsignificant positive association between T2DM and CUP risk and that the association became stronger in women in stratified analyses. CI - Copyright (c) 2022 The Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. FAU - Hermans, Karlijn E P E AU - Hermans KEPE AD - Department of Epidemiology, GROW School for Oncology and Developmental Biology, Maastricht University, Maastricht. FAU - Haque, Sharmi AU - Haque S AD - Department of Epidemiology, GROW School for Oncology and Developmental Biology, Maastricht University, Maastricht. FAU - van den Brandt, Piet A AU - van den Brandt PA AD - Department of Epidemiology, GROW School for Oncology and Developmental Biology, Maastricht University, Maastricht. FAU - Loef, Caroline AU - Loef C AD - Department of Research, Comprehensive Cancer Organization the Netherlands, Utrecht. FAU - Jansen, Rob L H AU - Jansen RLH AD - Department of Internal Medicine, Medical Oncology, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands. FAU - Schouten, Leo J AU - Schouten LJ AD - Department of Epidemiology, GROW School for Oncology and Developmental Biology, Maastricht University, Maastricht. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20220505 PL - England TA - Eur J Cancer Prev JT - European journal of cancer prevention : the official journal of the European Cancer Prevention Organisation (ECP) JID - 9300837 SB - IM MH - Cohort Studies MH - *Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/diagnosis/epidemiology MH - Female MH - Humans MH - Incidence MH - *Neoplasms, Unknown Primary/complications/diagnosis/epidemiology MH - Netherlands/epidemiology MH - Proportional Hazards Models MH - Prospective Studies MH - Risk Factors EDAT- 2022/03/22 06:00 MHDA- 2022/10/01 06:00 CRDT- 2022/03/21 05:44 PHST- 2022/03/22 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/10/01 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2022/03/21 05:44 [entrez] AID - 00008469-202211000-00014 [pii] AID - 10.1097/CEJ.0000000000000749 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Eur J Cancer Prev. 2022 Nov 1;31(6):600-608. doi: 10.1097/CEJ.0000000000000749. Epub 2022 May 5.