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. 2021 Jul;225(1):51.e1–51.e17. doi: 10.1016/j.ajog.2021.01.014

Supplemental Table 3.

The association between aspects of oral contraceptive use and risk of ovarian cancer for 4818 BRCA1 and 2844 BRCA2 mutation carriers in the full-retrospective cohort

Variable BRCA1 mutation carriers
BRCA2 mutation carriers
OvCa+, n (%)a OvCa−, n (%)a Weighted,b,c HR (95% CI)d OvCa+, n (%)a OvCa−, n (%)a Weighted,b,c HR (95% CI)d
Oral contraceptive use
 Never (<6 mo) 235 (46.4) 793 (19.7) 1.00 85 (52.8) 513 (20.4) 1.00
 Ever 272 (53.7) 3235 (80.3) 0.64 (0.50–0.81) 76 (47.2) 1997 (79.6) 0.66 (0.43–1.00)
 Ever, starting age unknown 19 153 7 104
 Missing 29 82 6 56
Calendar year at start
 Never (<6 mo) 235 (46.4) 793 (19.7) 1.00 85 (52.8) 513 (20.4) 1.00
 ≤1975 182 (35.9) 909 (22.6) 0.57 (0.44–0.75) 60 (37.3) 621 (24.7) 0.69 (0.45–1.07)
 >1975 90 (17.8) 2326 (57.8) 0.77 (0.54–1.09) 16 (9.9) 1376 (54.8) 0.49 (0.25–0.97)
 Ever, starting year unknown 19 153 7 104
 Missing 29 82 6 56
Total duration of use
 Never (<6 mo) 235 (48.3) 793 (20.8) 1.00 85 (53.8) 513 (21.6) 1.00
 <5 y 92 (18.9) 692 (18.2) 0.84 (0.61–1.14) 24 (15.2) 470 (19.8) 0.81 (0.46–1.43)
 5–9 y 79 (16.2) 1010 (26.5) 0.74 (0.53–1.04) 19 (12.0) 615 (25.9) 0.62 (0.34–1.14)
 ≥10 y 81 (16.6) 1316 (34.5) 0.44 (0.31–0.61) 30 (19.0) 779 (32.8) 0.59 (0.35–0.99)
 Ever, no period specific data 39 370 10 237
 Missing 29 82 6 56
 Trende P=4.6E-04 P=0.369
Time since last use
 Never (<6 mo) 235 (48.3) 793 (20.8) 1.00 85 (53.8) 513 (21.6) 1.00
 <10 y 56 (11.5) 1712 (44.9) 0.53 (0.37–0.77) 14 (8.9) 921 (38.8) 0.44 (0.22–0.86)
 10–19 y 94 (19.3) 773 (20.3) 0.70 (0.51–0.95) 22 (13.9) 483 (20.3) 0.70 (0.39–1.26)
 ≥20 y 102 (20.9) 533 (14.0) 0.73 (0.54–1.00) 37 (23.4) 460 (19.4) 0.76 (0.45–1.26)
 Ever, no period specific data 39 370 10 237
 Missing 29 82 6 56
 Trende P=.113 P=.162
Starting age
 Never (<6 mo) 235 (46.4) 793 (19.7) 1.00 85 (52.8) 513 (20.4) 1.00
 ≤19 y 83 (16.4) 2014 (50.0) 0.54 (0.38–0.76) 25 (15.5) 1125 (44.8) 0.92 (0.47–1.80)
 20–23 y 86 (17.0) 703 (17.5) 0.68 (0.49–0.95) 17 (10.6) 518 (20.6) 0.55 (0.28–1.07)
 >23 y 103 (20.3) 518 (12.9) 0.69 (0.51–0.95) 34 (21.1) 354 (14.1) 0.65 (0.40–1.05)
 Ever, starting age unknown 19 153 7 104
 Missing 29 82 6 56
 Trende P=.292 P=.396

BRCA, breast cancer; CI, confidence interval; EMBRACE, Epidemiological Study of Familial Breast Cancer; GENEPSO, Gene Etude Prospective Sein Ovaire; HEBON, Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Research Group Netherlands; HR, hazard ratio; OvCa, ovarian cancer.

Schrijver et al. Oral contraceptive use and ovarian cancer risk for BRCA1/2 mutation carriers. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2021.

a

Distribution of variables at end of follow-up

b

Weighted: to account for the oversampling of affected individuals (breast and ovarian cancer)

c

Unweighted results: BRCA1 HR, 0.91; 95 CI%, 0.77–1.08; BRCA2 HR, 1.02; 95 CI%, 0.76–1.36. In both unweighted and weighted analyses, the same characteristics of oral contraceptive use were significantly associated

d

Intrinsically stratified on study (EMBRACE, GENEPSO, HEBON, other) and birth cohort (1920–1941, 1942–1950, 1951–1992). Clustered on family membership

e

Trend tests were based on the P value of the category-specific mean as a continuous variable of ever oral contraceptive users.