Alcohol drinking cessation and its effect on esophageal and head and neck cancers: A pooled analysis

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 121, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1132-1137

  Rehm, Jürgen ^a,b,c,d   Patra, Jayadeep ^a   Popova, Svetlana ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c Institut fur Sucht und Gesundheitsforschung Zurich   (Switzerland)

^d DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alcohol consumption; Cessation; Esophageal cancer; Head and neck cancer, pooled analysis; Polynomial regression

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENESIS; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX CANCER; LARYNX CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOUTH CANCER; PHARYNX CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; ODDS RATIO; SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

EID: 34547130057     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: 10970215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.22798     Document Type: Article

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