The role of oral hygiene in head and neck cancer: results from International Head and Neck Cancer Epidemiology (INHANCE) consortium

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Poor oral hygiene has been proposed to contribute to head and neck cancer (HNC) risk, although causality and independency of some indicators are uncertain. This study investigates the relationship of five oral hygiene indicators with incident HNCs.

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A straightforward and unified approach is presented for the calculation of the population attributable risk per cent (etiologic fraction) in the general multivariate setting, with emphasis on using data from case-control studies. The summary attributable risk for multiple factors can be estimated, with or without adjustment for other (confounding) risk factors. The relation of this approach to procedures in the literature is discussed. Given values of the relative risks for various combinations of factors, all that is required is the distribution of these factors among the cases only. The required information can often be estimated solely from case-control data, and in some situations relative risk estimates from one population can be applied to calculation of attributable risk for another population. The authors emphasize the benefits to be obtained from logistic regression models, so that risks need not be estimated separately in a large number of strata, some of which may contain inadequate numbers of individuals. This approach allows incorporation of important interactions between factors, but does not require that all possible interactions be included. The approach is illustrated with data on four risk factors from a pair-matched case-control study of participants in a multicenter breast cancer screening project.

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Bruzzi et al. (1985, American Journal of Epidemiology 122, 904-914) provided a general logistic-model-based estimator of the attributable fraction for case-control data, and Benichou and Gail (1990, Biometrics 46, 991-1003) gave an implicit-delta-method variance formula for this estimator. The Bruzzi et al. estimator is not, however, the maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) based on the model, as it uses the model only to construct the relative risk estimates, and not the covariate-distribution estimate. We here provide maximum likelihood estimators for the attributable fraction in cohort and case-control studies, and their asymptotic variances. The case-control estimator generalizes the estimator of Drescher and Schill (1991, Biometrics 47, 1247-1256). We also present a limited simulation study which confirms earlier work that better small-sample performance is obtained when the confidence interval is centered on the log-transformed point estimator rather than the original point estimator.

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Poor oral health has been reported as a risk factor in the etiology of head and neck cancer. Data on oral health were ascertained as part of two multicenter case-control studies comprising 924 cases and 928 controls in central Europe and 2,286 cases and 1,824 controls in Latin America. Incident cases of squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (oral cavity, pharynx, larynx) and esophagus, as well as age (in quinquennia)- and sex frequency-matched controls, were enrolled from 1998 to 2003. Poor condition of the mouth (central Europe: odds ratio (OR) = 2.89, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.74, 4.81; Latin America: OR = 1.89, 95% CI: 1.47, 2.42), lack of toothbrush use (Latin America: OR = 2.36, 95% CI: 1.28, 4.36), and daily mouthwash use (Latin America: OR = 3.40, 95% CI: 1.96, 5.89) emerged as risk factors for head and neck cancer, independent of tobacco use and alcohol consumption. Missing between six and 15 teeth was an independent risk factor for esophageal cancer (central Europe: OR = 2.84, 95% CI: 1.26, 6.41; Latin America: OR = 2.18, 95% CI: 1.04, 4.59). These results indicate that periodontal disease (as indicated by poor condition of the mouth and missing teeth) and daily mouthwash use may be independent causes of cancers of the head, neck, and esophagus.

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Journal

Title: Annals of Oncology

Abbreviated Title: Ann Oncol

Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)

ISSN (Print): 0923-7534

ISSN (Electronic): 1569-8041

Publication date Created: July 25 2016

Publication date Created: August 2016

Publication date (Print): August 2016

Publication date (Electronic): May 27 2016

Volume: 27

Issue: 8

Pages: 1619-1625

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DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdw224

PMC ID: 4959929

PubMed ID: 27234641

SO-VID: 2e07e2c4-1dac-4862-b546-f2493c2196f1

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