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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author Kuper, H
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description 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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spelling pubmed-23746912009-09-10 Alcohol and breast cancer risk: the alcoholism paradox Kuper, H Ye, W Weiderpass, E Ekbom, A Trichopoulos, D Nyrén, O Adami, H-O Br J Cancer Regular Article 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 Nature Publishing Group 2000-10 2000-09-04 /pmc/articles/PMC2374691/ /pubmed/10970699 http://dx.doi.org/10.1054/bjoc.2000.1360 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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url 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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