ReviewWomen's health (London, England)2015
Links between alcohol consumption and breast cancer: a look at the evidence.
Review in Women's health (London, England), 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 97 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
97 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 223 citations in OpenAlex.
- Association between ERCC5 gene rs17655 polymorphism and the risk of breast cancer: an updated meta-analysis.Environmental health and preventive medicine · 2026Pooled it
- Alcohol consumption among university students in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis of epidemiological studies.Frontiers in public health · 2025Pooled it
- Dietary Patterns, Dietary Interventions, and Mammographic Breast Density: A Systematic Literature Review.Nutrients · 2022Pooled it
- Lifestyle Interventions through Participatory Research: A Mixed-Methods Systematic Review of Alcohol and Other Breast Cancer Behavioural Risk Factors.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Light Alcohol Drinking and Risk of Cancer: A Meta-Analysis of Cohort Studies.Cancer research and treatment · 2018Pooled it
- Cardiovascular Disease and Breast Cancer: Where These Entities Intersect: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association.Circulation · 2018Pooled it
- Developing and testing health warnings about alcohol and risk for breast cancer: Results from a national experiment with young adult women in the United States.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2025Trial
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- Associations of alcohol use with expression of stromal markers in benign breast biopsy samples.British journal of cancer · 2026Article
- Less than what? Response to alcohol consumption recommendations in the 2025-2030 dietary guidelines for Americans.Lancet regional health. Americas · 2026Review
- Using case description information to reduce sensitivity to bias for the attributable fraction among the exposed.Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A, (Statistics in Society) · 2026Article
- Nutrition Across the Life Course and Risk of Young-Onset Breast Cancer: Mechanisms, Evidence, and Prevention Opportunities.Nutrients · 2026Review
- Factors Associated With Alcohol Intake in Patients With Newly Diagnosed Breast Cancer.Cancer medicine · 2026Article
- Women's perceptions of breast cancer risk and prevention: insights into knowledge gaps and lifestyle attitudes.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Socioeconomic disparities in long-term heart failure risk of trastuzumab with or without anthracyclines in early-stage breast cancer: a SEER-Medicare database analysis.NPJ breast cancer · 2026Article
- Rethinking the microenvironment's role in chemical-induced malignancy.Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology · 2026Review
- Can I Do Better Than AI: A Comparative Analysis of a Medical Student Essay Created With and Without Generative AI.Cureus · 2026Article
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- Breast Cancer Awareness and Knowledge Among Women at a Municipal Hospital in Ghana: A Cross-Sectional Study.Cancer reports (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2025Article
- Understanding Susceptibility to Breast Cancer: From Risk Factors to Prevention Strategies.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
37 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
Alcohol consumption by adult women is consistently associated with risk of breast cancer. Several questions regarding alcohol and breast cancer need to be addressed. Menarche to first pregnancy represents a window of time when breast tissue is particularly susceptible to carcinogens. Youth alcohol consumption is common in the USA, largely in the form of binge drinking and heavy drinking. Whether alcohol intake acts early in the process of breast tumorigenesis is unclear. This review aims to focus on the influences of timing and patterns of alcohol consumption and the effect of alcohol on intermediate risk markers. We also review possible mechanisms underlying the alcohol-breast cancer association.
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