No excess risk of colorectal cancer among alcoholics followed for up to 25 years

We conducted a population-based retrospective cohort study among 179 398 Swedish patients hospitalised for alcoholism from 1970 to 1994, and found no excess risk for colorectal cancers, overall or at any anatomical subsite. Our findings challenge the hypothesis that alcohol intake is a risk factor f...

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Autores principales: Ye, W, Romelsjö, A, Augustsson, K, Adami, H-O, Nyrén, O
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2003
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Epidemiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2376377/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12671702
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6600846
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spelling pubmed-23763772009-09-10 No excess risk of colorectal cancer among alcoholics followed for up to 25 years Ye, W Romelsjö, A Augustsson, K Adami, H-O Nyrén, O Br J Cancer Epidemiology We conducted a population-based retrospective cohort study among 179 398 Swedish patients hospitalised for alcoholism from 1970 to 1994, and found no excess risk for colorectal cancers, overall or at any anatomical subsite. Our findings challenge the hypothesis that alcohol intake is a risk factor for cancer of the large bowel. Nature Publishing Group 2003-04-07 2003-04-01 /pmc/articles/PMC2376377/ /pubmed/12671702 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6600846 Text en Copyright © 2003 Cancer Research UK 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/.
spellingShingle Epidemiology
Ye, W
Romelsjö, A
Augustsson, K
Adami, H-O
Nyrén, O
No excess risk of colorectal cancer among alcoholics followed for up to 25 years
title No excess risk of colorectal cancer among alcoholics followed for up to 25 years
title_full No excess risk of colorectal cancer among alcoholics followed for up to 25 years
title_fullStr No excess risk of colorectal cancer among alcoholics followed for up to 25 years
title_full_unstemmed No excess risk of colorectal cancer among alcoholics followed for up to 25 years
title_short No excess risk of colorectal cancer among alcoholics followed for up to 25 years
title_sort no excess risk of colorectal cancer among alcoholics followed for up to 25 years
topic Epidemiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2376377/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12671702
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6600846
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