Alcohol and lung cancer: Do we have the answers?

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 495-496

  Boffetta, Paolo ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; CANCER RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LUNG CANCER; SMOKING; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; NOTE; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING;

EID: 27244437633     PISSN: 00029165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ajcn.82.3.495     Document Type: Editorial

References (11)

1. Schwartz D, Lellouch J, Flamant R, Denoix PF. Alcohol and cancer. Results of a retrospective investigation. Rev Fr Etud Clin Biol 1962;7:590-604.
2. World Cancer Research Fund and American Institute for Cancer Research. Food and nutrition and cancer prevention: a global perspective. Washington, DC: World Cancer Research Fund/American Institute for Cancer Research, 1997.
3. Freudenheim JL, Ritz J, Smith-Warner SA, et al. Alcohol consumption and risk of lung cancer: a pooled analysis of cohort studies. Am J Clin Nutr 2005;82:657-67.
4. Zang EA, Wynder EL. Reevaluation of the confounding effect of cigarette smoking on the relationship between alcohol use and lung cancer risk, with larynx cancer used as a positive control. Prev Med 2001;32:359-70.
5. Potter JD, McMichael AJ. Alcohol, beer and lung cancer-a meaningful relationship? Int J Epidemiol 1984;13:240-2.
6. Korte JE, Brennan P, Henley SJ, Boffetta P. Dose-specific meta-analysis and sensitivity analysis of the relation between alcohol consumption and lung cancer risk. Am J Epidemiol 2002;155:496-506.
7. Carpenter CL, Morgenstern H, London SJ. Alcoholic beverage consumption and lung cancer risk among residents of Los Angeles County. J Nutr 1998;128:694-700.
8. Klatsky AL, Friedman GD, Siegelaub AB. Alcohol and mortality. A ten-year Kaiser-Permanente experience. Ann Intern Med 1981;95:139-45.
9. Stewart SH, Mainous AG III, Gilbert G. Relation between alcohol consumption and C-reactive protein levels in the adult US population. J Am Board Fam Pract 2002;15:437-42.
10. Albert MA, Glynn RJ, Ridker PM. Alcohol consumption and plasma concentration of C-reactive protein. Circulation 2003;107:443-7.
11. Rehm J, Room R, Monteiro M, et al. Alcohol use. In: Ezzati M, Murray C, Lopez A, Rodgers A, eds. Comparative quantification of health risks: global and regional burden of disease attributable to selected major risk factors. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization, 2004:959-1108.