The burden of cancer attributable to alcohol drinking

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 884-887

  Boffetta, Paolo ^a   Hashibe, Mia ^a   La Vecchia, Carlo ^b   Zatonski, Witold ^c   Rehm, Jürgen ^d,e  

^a INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Poland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e Head WHO Collaboration Centre for Substance Abuse   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Epidemiology; Neoplasms

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; LARYNX CANCER; LIVER CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MOUTH CANCER; PHARYNX CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CANCER; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 33745896207     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: 10970215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.21903     Document Type: Article

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