Risk of premature menopause after treatment for Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Anthony J Swerdlow, Rosie Cooke, Andrew Bates, David Cunningham, Stephen J Falk, Dianne Gilson, Barry W Hancock, Sarah J Harris, Alan Horwich, Peter J Hoskin, David C Linch, Andrew Lister, Helen H Lucraft, John Radford, Andrea M Stevens, Isabel Syndikus, Michael V Williams, Gabriel Anghel (Collaborator), Brian Attock (Collaborator), Jane Barrett (Collaborator)Andrew Bell (Collaborator), Kim Benstead (Collaborator), Eric M Bessell (Collaborator), Ashoke Biswas (Collaborator), Norbert Blesing (Collaborator), Caroline Brammer (Collaborator), Jill Brock (Collaborator), Alison Brownell (Collaborator), A Murray Brunt (Collaborator), Peter B Coates (Collaborator), Matthew P Collinson (Collaborator), Neville Davidson (Collaborator), Sian Davies (Collaborator), Angel Garcia (Collaborator), Andrew Goodman (Collaborator), Royal Devon (Collaborator), Adrian N Harnett (Collaborator), Timothy Illidge (Collaborator), Clive J R Irwin (Collaborator), Stephen A Kelly (Collaborator), Judith Kingston (Collaborator), Christopher Knechtli (Collaborator), Matthew Lyttelton (Collaborator), Zor Maung (Collaborator), Christopher McNamara (Collaborator), Jamey S Morgan (Collaborator), Philip Murray (Collaborator), Hugh O'Brien (Collaborator), Ann O'Callaghan (Collaborator), Nigel O'Connor (Collaborator), Russell Patmore (Collaborator), Mojca Persic (Collaborator), Christopher Pocock (Collaborator), Saad M B Rassam (Collaborator), Hamish Ross (Collaborator), Amanda Salisbury (Collaborator), Philip M Savage (Collaborator), Joanna Simpson (Collaborator), Roger E Taylor (Collaborator), Gill Thomas (Collaborator), Colin Trask (Collaborator), Nicholas West (Collaborator), Stephen J Whitaker (Collaborator)

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Modern treatment of Hodgkin's lymphoma (HL) has transformed its prognosis but causes late effects, including premature menopause. Cohort studies of premature menopause risks after treatment have been relatively small, and knowledge about these risks is limited. METHODS: Nonsurgical menopause risk was analyzed in 2127 women treated for HL in England and Wales at ages younger than 36 years from 1960 through 2004 and followed to 2003 through 2012. Risks were estimated using Cox regression, modified Poisson regression, and competing risks. All statistical tests were two-sided. RESULTS: During follow-up, 605 patients underwent nonsurgical menopause before age 40 years. Risk of premature menopause increased more than 20-fold after ovarian radiotherapy, alkylating chemotherapy other than dacarbazine, or BEAM (bis-chloroethylnitrosourea [BCNU], etoposide, cytarabine, melphalan) chemotherapy for stem cell transplantation, but was not statistically significantly raised after adriamycin, bleomycin, vinblastine, dacarbazine (ABVD). Menopause generally occurred sooner after ovarian radiotherapy (62.5% within five years of ≥5 Gy treatment) and BEAM (50.9% within five years) than after alkylating chemotherapy (24.2% within five years of ≥6 cycles), and after treatment at older than at younger ages. Cumulative risk of menopause by age 40 years was 81.3% after greater than or equal to 5Gy ovarian radiotherapy, 75.3% after BEAM, 49.1% after greater than or equal to 6 cycles alkylating chemotherapy, 1.4% after ABVD, and 3.0% after solely supradiaphragmatic radiotherapy. Tables of individualized risk information for patients by future period, treatment type, dose and age are provided. CONCLUSIONS: Patients treated with HL need to plan intended pregnancies using personalized information on their risk of menopause by different future time points.
Original languageEnglish
JournalJournal of the National Cancer Institute
Volume106
Issue number9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Sept 2014

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