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Association between cannabis use with urological cancers: A population-based cohort study and a mendelian randomization study in the UK biobank

Huang, J; Huang, D; Ruan, X; Huang, J; Xu, D; Heavey, S; Olivier, J; (2022) Association between cannabis use with urological cancers: A population-based cohort study and a mendelian randomization study in the UK biobank. Cancer Medicine 10.1002/cam4.5132. (In press). Green open access

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Legislation of cannabis use has been approved in many European and North American countries. Its impact on urological cancers is unclear. This study was conducted to explore the association between cannabis use and the risk of urological cancers. METHODS: We identified 151,945 individuals with information on cannabis use in the UK Biobank from 2006 to 2010. Crude and age-standardized incidence ratios of different urological cancers were evaluated in the entire cohort and subgroups. Cox regression was performed for survival analysis. RESULTS: Previous use of cannabis was a significant protective factor for renal cell carcinoma (HR = 0.61, 95%CI:0.40–0.93, p = 0.021) and prostate cancer (HR = 0.82, 95%CI:0.73–0.93, p = 0.002) in multivariable analysis. The association between previous cannabis use and both renal cell carcinoma and bladder cancer was only observed in females (HRRCC = 0.42, 95%CI:0.19–0.94, p = 0.034; HRBCa = 0.43, 95%CI:0.21–0.86, p = 0.018) but not in men. There was no significant association between cannabis use and testicular cancer incidence. Mendelian randomization demonstrated a potential causal effect of cannabis use on a lower incidence of renal cell carcinoma. CONCLUSIONS: Previous use of cannabis was associated with a lower risk of bladder cancer, renal cell carcinoma, and prostate cancer. The inverse association between cannabis and both renal cell carcinoma and bladder cancer was only found in females but not in males.

Type: Article
Title: Association between cannabis use with urological cancers: A population-based cohort study and a mendelian randomization study in the UK biobank
Location: United States
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1002/cam4.5132
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1002/cam4.5132
Language: English
Additional information: © 2022 The Authors. Cancer Medicine published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Keywords: bladder cancer, cannabis, incidence, prostate cancer, renal cell carcinoma, testicular cancer
UCL classification: UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Div of Surgery and Interventional Sci > Department of Targeted Intervention
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Div of Surgery and Interventional Sci
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10154895
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