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Estimation of cancer incidence and mortality attributable to alcohol drinking in china

BACKGROUND: Cancer constitutes a serious burden of disease worldwide and has become the second leading cause of death in China. Alcohol consumption is causally associated with the increased risk of certain cancers. Due to the current lack of data and the imperative need to guide policymakers on issu...

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Autores principales: Liang, Hao, Wang, Jianbing, Xiao, Huijuan, Wang, Ding, Wei, Wenqiang, Qiao, Youlin, Boffetta, Paolo
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3009646/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21108783
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-10-730
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author Liang, Hao
Wang, Jianbing
Xiao, Huijuan
Wang, Ding
Wei, Wenqiang
Qiao, Youlin
Boffetta, Paolo
author_facet Liang, Hao
Wang, Jianbing
Xiao, Huijuan
Wang, Ding
Wei, Wenqiang
Qiao, Youlin
Boffetta, Paolo
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description BACKGROUND: Cancer constitutes a serious burden of disease worldwide and has become the second leading cause of death in China. Alcohol consumption is causally associated with the increased risk of certain cancers. Due to the current lack of data and the imperative need to guide policymakers on issues of cancer prevention and control, we aim to estimate the role of alcohol on the cancer burden in China in 2005. METHODS: We calculated the proportion of cancers attributable to alcohol use to estimate the burden of alcohol-related cancer. The population attributable fraction was calculated based on the assumption of no alcohol drinking. Data on alcohol drinking prevalence were from two large-scale national surveys of representative samples of the Chinese population. Data on relative risk were obtained from meta-analyses and large-scale studies. RESULTS: We found that a total of 78,881 cancer deaths were attributable to alcohol drinking in China in 2005, representing 4.40% of all cancers (6.69% in men, 0.42% in women). The corresponding figure for cancer incidence was 93,596 cases (3.63% of all cancer cases). Liver cancer was the main alcohol-related cancer, contributing more than 60% of alcohol-related cancers. CONCLUSIONS: Particular attention needs to be paid to the harm of alcohol as well as its potential benefits when making public health recommendations on alcohol drinking.
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spelling pubmed-30096462011-01-07 Estimation of cancer incidence and mortality attributable to alcohol drinking in china Liang, Hao Wang, Jianbing Xiao, Huijuan Wang, Ding Wei, Wenqiang Qiao, Youlin Boffetta, Paolo BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: Cancer constitutes a serious burden of disease worldwide and has become the second leading cause of death in China. Alcohol consumption is causally associated with the increased risk of certain cancers. Due to the current lack of data and the imperative need to guide policymakers on issues of cancer prevention and control, we aim to estimate the role of alcohol on the cancer burden in China in 2005. METHODS: We calculated the proportion of cancers attributable to alcohol use to estimate the burden of alcohol-related cancer. The population attributable fraction was calculated based on the assumption of no alcohol drinking. Data on alcohol drinking prevalence were from two large-scale national surveys of representative samples of the Chinese population. Data on relative risk were obtained from meta-analyses and large-scale studies. RESULTS: We found that a total of 78,881 cancer deaths were attributable to alcohol drinking in China in 2005, representing 4.40% of all cancers (6.69% in men, 0.42% in women). The corresponding figure for cancer incidence was 93,596 cases (3.63% of all cancer cases). Liver cancer was the main alcohol-related cancer, contributing more than 60% of alcohol-related cancers. CONCLUSIONS: Particular attention needs to be paid to the harm of alcohol as well as its potential benefits when making public health recommendations on alcohol drinking. BioMed Central 2010-11-25 /pmc/articles/PMC3009646/ /pubmed/21108783 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-10-730 Text en Copyright ©2010 Liang et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (<url>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0</url>), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Liang, Hao
Wang, Jianbing
Xiao, Huijuan
Wang, Ding
Wei, Wenqiang
Qiao, Youlin
Boffetta, Paolo
Estimation of cancer incidence and mortality attributable to alcohol drinking in china
title Estimation of cancer incidence and mortality attributable to alcohol drinking in china
title_full Estimation of cancer incidence and mortality attributable to alcohol drinking in china
title_fullStr Estimation of cancer incidence and mortality attributable to alcohol drinking in china
title_full_unstemmed Estimation of cancer incidence and mortality attributable to alcohol drinking in china
title_short Estimation of cancer incidence and mortality attributable to alcohol drinking in china
title_sort estimation of cancer incidence and mortality attributable to alcohol drinking in china
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3009646/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21108783
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-10-730
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