Alcohol and breast cancer risk: the alcoholism paradox

A population-based cohort study of 36 856 women diagnosed with alcoholism in Sweden between 1965 and 1995 found that alcoholic women had only a small 15% increase in breast-cancer incidence compared to the general female population. It is therefore apparent, contrary to expectation, that alcoholism...

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Autores principales: Kuper, H, Ye, W, Weiderpass, E, Ekbom, A, Trichopoulos, D, Nyrén, O, Adami, H-O
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2000
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Regular Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2374691/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10970699
http://dx.doi.org/10.1054/bjoc.2000.1360
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Sumario:A population-based cohort study of 36 856 women diagnosed with alcoholism in Sweden between 1965 and 1995 found that alcoholic women had only a small 15% increase in breast-cancer incidence compared to the general female population. It is therefore apparent, contrary to expectation, that alcoholism does not increase breast-cancer risk in proportion to presumed ethanol intake. © 2000 Cancer Research Campaign

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