Pregnant Exposure to Persistent Organic Pollutants

Breast cancer, the first female cancer, affects one in eight women in her lifetime. The increase and uneven distribution of its prevalence throughout the world cannot be fully explained either by the increase in life expectancy, or by genetic factors present in less than 10% of cases, or by early detection, or by the use of hormone therapy for menopause at certain periods of time. Numerous experimental and epidemiological arguments, as well as the increased risk of breast cancer in women after 50 years of age who were exposed in utero to Distilbene prescribed for their mothers in the 1950s to 75's, suggest the involvement of environmental factors involved in early development (nutrition, alcohol, tobacco, chemical pollutants) that may act as endocrine disruptors, estrogenomimetic or intervening on other nuclear receptors such as the However, the formal demonstration of the deleterious physiopathological role of such exposure comes up against methodological difficulties in epidemiological terms: first of all, the fact that correlation is sought at the time of the discovery of breast cancer when there are critical windows of exposure (fetal, perinatal, peripubertal and pregnant) and that persistent organic products or POPs, most often lipids, are present. The objective of this project is to correlate the per-gravidic exposure to POPs (dioxins, dioxinlike, polychlorinated bisphenyls, organochlorine pesticides and flame-retardant polybrominated derivatives) and the development, within 15 years of delivery, of breast cancer, taking into account the confounding factors of classical breast cancer risk (age, reproductive events, etc.). This project benefits on the one hand from a cord blood bank set up between 2002 and 2005 (6,242 samples) carried out at the Nice University Hospital and the Grasse University Hospital, during a PHRC and on the other hand from the cancer observatory / CRISAP of the PACA Corsica region, exhaustive to more than 92% since 2005, registers which will be cross-referenced and whose cancer cases (N) will be compared to controls. The assays will be carried out after purification, using high-resolution mass spectrometry gas chromatography coupling, the quantification being carried out according to the principle of isotopic dilution. They will be carried out by LABERCA in Nantes, the national reference laboratory of the French Health Agencies ANSES and INVS and also involved in various European projects. Concentrations related to blood lipids will be expressed in quartile and analyzed separately or combined with a cumulative score taking into account confounding risk factors for breast cancer and the geolocation of the initial and final residence in relation to the incinerator of the City of Nice (Department of Public Health CHU of Nice).

Sex

Female

Minimum age

18 Years

Inclusion Criteria:

woman who gave birth between 2002 and 2005 to a boy whose cord blood was stored in a 2002/2005 PHRC.