Estimating dose-response relationship between ethanol and risk of cancer using regression spline models

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 114, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 836-841

  Polesel, Jerry ^a   Dal Maso, Luigino ^a   Bagnardi, Vincenzo ^b   Zucchetto, Antonella ^a   Zambon, Antonella ^b   Levi, Fabio ^c   La Vecchia, Carlo ^d,e   Franceschi, Silvia ^f  

^a CENTRO DI RIFERIMENTO ONCOLOGICO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^d MARIO NEGRI INSTITUTE FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^f INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

Author keywords

Dose response; Spline models; Upper aero digestive tract cancer

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; DOSE RESPONSE; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; HUMAN; ITALY; LARYNX CANCER; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH CANCER; PHARYNX CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING HABIT;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL DRINKING; DATABASES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ETHANOL; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEOPLASMS; ODDS RATIO; PHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING;

EID: 14844299868     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.20756     Document Type: Article

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