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OBJECTIVES/GOALS: Breast cancer survivors have a high risk for chronic disease and early mortality, especially if their psychological and physical symptoms persist beyond treatment. We compared survivors’and noncancer patient controls’health trajectories. We also examined how their relationship satisfaction—a key health determinant—impacted their health. METHODS/STUDY POPULATION: In this longitudinal study, participants were women who were married/domestic partners with an initial suggestive test of cancer identified at cancer clinics. After follow-up testing, women received either a malignant diagnosis (cancer survivors; n=139, stages 0–IIIC) or benign diagnosis (noncancer patient controls; n=69). Breast cancer survivors completed a baseline visit prior to beginning cancer treatment and two follow-up visits 6 and 18 months after treatment ended (surgery, radiation, or chemotherapy, whichever came last); noncancer patient controls completed visits within a comparable timeframe. At each visit, all women completed self-report questionnaires assessing their relationship satisfaction, insomnia, and depressive symptoms. RESULTS/ANTICIPATED RESULTS: We used mixed models and adjusted for participant age, comorbidities, cancer treatment and stage, BMI, and menopause status. At the pre-treatment visit, cancer survivors reported greater depressive symptoms than noncancer patient controls. Cancer survivors’depressive symptoms also decreased over time and were higher before treatment than at the 6- and 18-month post-treatment visits. Insomnia in cancer survivors, but not noncancer patient controls, decreased over time: insomnia was higher at the pre-treatment and 6-months post-treatment visits relative to the 18-month post-treatment visit. Survivors, but not noncancer patient controls, had lower depressive symptoms and insomnia at visits when they reported higher satisfaction than at visits when they reported lower satisfaction. DISCUSSION/SIGNIFICANCE: Cancer survivors had poorer psychological health than those without cancer before treatment, but survivors’psychological and physical health improved after finishing treatment. Survivors’satisfying relationships predicted better psychological and physical health, demonstrating the notable health benefits of survivors’relationships.

Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) tumors are the most common skin cancer and are highly immunogenic.The goal of this study was to assess how immune-cell related gene expression in an initial BCC tumor biopsy was related to the appearance of subsequent BCC tumors.Levels of mRNA for CD3ε (a T-cell receptor marker), CD25 (the alpha chain of the interleukin (IL)-2 receptor expressed on activated T-cells and B-cells), CD68 (a marker for monocytes/macrophages), the cell surface glycoprotein intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1), the cytokine interferon-γ (IFN-γ) and the anti-inflammatory cytokine IL-10 were measured in BCC tumor biopsies from 138 patients using real-time PCR.The median follow-up was 26.6 months, and 61% of subjects were free of new BCCs two years post-initial biopsy. Patients with low CD3ε CD25, CD68, and ICAM-1 mRNA levels had significantly shorter times before new tumors were detected (p = 0.03, p = 0.02, p = 0.003, and p = 0.08, respectively). Furthermore, older age diminished the association of mRNA levels with the appearance of subsequent tumors.Our results show that levels of CD3ε, CD25, CD68, and ICAM-1 mRNA in BCC biopsies may predict risk for new BCC tumors.

ObjectiveBreast cancer survivors live longer due to more advanced cancer treatments; however, cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading non-cancer cause of death in breast cancer survivors. Previous studies have shown that depression is associated with an increased risk of CVD development. This study investigated whether depressive symptoms or mood disorder history, either independently or in combination with cardiotoxic treatments, predicted older cardiopulmonary age using a novel index-the Age Based on Exercise Stress Test (ABEST)-among breast cancer survivors.MethodsBreast cancer survivors (N = 80, ages 26-72, stage I-IIIA) were assessed an average of 53 days (SD = 26) post-surgery, but before adjuvant treatment, and again an average of 32 (SD = 6) months thereafter. At both visits, they reported depressive symptoms on the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D), completed the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-V, and engaged in an exercise stress test to obtain ABEST scores.ResultsControlling for treatment type, age, education, trunk fat, antidepressant use, and time between visits, longitudinal analyses showed that breast cancer survivors with a mood disorder history had worsening ABEST scores over time, compared to their peers without this history (p = .046). Change in physical activity between Visits 1 and 2 did not mediate this relationship (95% CI: -0.16-0.51). Ancillary analyses provided some additional support for the primary finding, such that those with a mood disorder history trended toward greater decreases in Vo2max, although results were marginally non-significant (p = .095). There were no cross-sectional relationships between depressive symptoms or mood disorder history and ABEST scores (ps>.20). Treatment type did not modulate observed relationships (ps>.22).ConclusionsBreast cancer survivors with a mood disorder history may experience faster cardiopulmonary aging compared to their peers without such a history, raising risk for CVD.