Researchers at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) have clarified the link between alcohol consumption and the risk of head and neck cancers, showing that people who stop drinking can significantly reduce their cancer risk.Alcohol and cancer is drinking the new smoking Head and Neck...
In Japan, both alcohol consumption and the proportion of heavy drinkers have been increasing for decades (The Editorial Board of the Cancer Statistics in Japan, 2003), and alcohol drinking has been recognised as an important and preventable public health problem. A quantitative estimation of the ef...
Although overall alcohol consumption is known to increase the risk of a number of cancers internationally, evidence for Australia and evidence regarding the pattern of drinking and cancer risk is limited. Methods Adjusted hazard ratios (HR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) for cancer risk in rela...
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Colorectal Cancer Alcohol consumption has been linked to a modestly increasedrisk of cancer of both the colon and rectum. A meta-analysis of 57 studies showed that people who regularly drank approximately 3.5 drinks daily had 1.5 times the risk of developing colorectal cancer as non-drinkers, or...
alcohol drinkingBackground: There are some unique epidemiological characteristics of esophageal cancer in Iran. The objective of this study was finding the association between tobacco, substance and alcohol using with the risk of esophageal cancer in North Khorasan, Iran. Methods: This Case-Control ...
Alcohol consumption, the drinking of beverages containing ethyl alcohol. Alcoholic beverages are consumed largely for their physiological and psychological effects, but they are often consumed within specific social contexts. Learn about the physiologica
We studied whether moderate alcohol drinkers have a lower total and coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality than nondrinkers. Among 276,802 U.S. men aged 40–59 enrolled in 1959 in an American Cancer Society prospective study, 42,756 deaths, 18,771 from CHD, occurred during the following 12...
Colorectal cancer is an alcohol-related malignancy; however, the association appears to be stronger among Asian populations with a relatively high prevalence of the slow-metabolizing aldehyde dehydrogenase variant. To examine the association between alcohol consumption and colorectal cancer in Japanese, the...
When a pregnant woman drinks alcohol, it also enters the bloodstream of her foetus, and when excessive amounts of alcohol are consumed they can have damaging effects on the foetus. For more information, see Pregnancy and Alcohol Consumption. Cancer and alcohol Alcohol consumption is one of the ...