Risk factors for oral and pharyngeal cancer in women: a study from Italy and Switzerland

We analysed two case–control studies of women from Italy and Switzerland, including 195 cases of oral and pharyngeal cancers and 1113 controls. The multivariate odds ratio was 4.6 for heavy smokers and 2.7 for high alcohol intake. Vegetables, fruit, β-carotene and wholegrain foods were inversely, bu...

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Autores principales: Bosetti, C, Negri, E, Franceschi, S, Conti, E, Levi, F, Tomei, F, Vecchia, C La
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Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2000
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2363177/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10638990
http://dx.doi.org/10.1054/bjoc.1999.0900
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author Bosetti, C
Negri, E
Franceschi, S
Conti, E
Levi, F
Tomei, F
Vecchia, C La
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description We analysed two case–control studies of women from Italy and Switzerland, including 195 cases of oral and pharyngeal cancers and 1113 controls. The multivariate odds ratio was 4.6 for heavy smokers and 2.7 for high alcohol intake. Vegetables, fruit, β-carotene and wholegrain foods were inversely, butter and retinol directly, related to risk. © 2000 Cancer Research Campaign
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spelling pubmed-23631772009-09-10 Risk factors for oral and pharyngeal cancer in women: a study from Italy and Switzerland Bosetti, C Negri, E Franceschi, S Conti, E Levi, F Tomei, F Vecchia, C La Br J Cancer Short Communication We analysed two case–control studies of women from Italy and Switzerland, including 195 cases of oral and pharyngeal cancers and 1113 controls. The multivariate odds ratio was 4.6 for heavy smokers and 2.7 for high alcohol intake. Vegetables, fruit, β-carotene and wholegrain foods were inversely, butter and retinol directly, related to risk. © 2000 Cancer Research Campaign Nature Publishing Group 2000-01 1999-12-08 /pmc/articles/PMC2363177/ /pubmed/10638990 http://dx.doi.org/10.1054/bjoc.1999.0900 Text en Copyright © 2000 Cancer Research Campaign https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material.If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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title_fullStr Risk factors for oral and pharyngeal cancer in women: a study from Italy and Switzerland
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2363177/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10638990
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