Alcohol and breast cancer risk: the alcoholism paradox

Authors
Kuper, H Ye, W Weiderpass, E Ekbom, A Trichopoulos, D Nyren, O Adami, HO
Citation
H. Kuper et al., Alcohol and breast cancer risk: the alcoholism paradox, BR J CANC, 83(7), 2000, pp. 949-951
Citations number
22
Categorie Soggetti
Oncology,"Onconogenesis & Cancer Research
Journal title
BRITISH JOURNAL OF CANCER
ISSN journal
00070920 → ACNP
Volume
83
Issue
7
Year of publication
2000
Pages
949 - 951
Database
ISI
SICI code
0007-0920(200010)83:7<949:AABCRT>2.0.ZU;2-K
Abstract
A population-based cohort study of 36 856 women diagnosed with alcoholism i n Sweden between 1965 and 1995 found that alcoholic women had only a small 15% increase in breast-cancer incidence compared to the general female popu lation. It is therefore apparent, contrary to expectation, that alcoholism does not increase breast-cancer risk in proportion to presumed ethanol inta ke. (C) 2000 Cancer Research Campaign.