ArticleArchives of dermatological research2015
Alcohol consumption and risk of melanoma among women: pooled analysis of eight case-control studies.
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Alcohol, alcoholic beverages, and melanoma risk: a systematic literature review and dose-response meta-analysis.European journal of nutrition · 2018Pooled it
- Melanoma and Colorectal Cancer as Second Primary Cancers: A Scoping Review of Their Association and the Underlying Biological, Lifestyle, and Genetic Factors.Journal of gastrointestinal cancer · 2025Article
- The impact of alcohol consumption, smoking, coffee, and tea intake on cutaneous melanoma: a causal relationship analysis.Archives of dermatological research · 2025Article
- Associations of Dietary Factors with Cutaneous Melanoma: A Case-Control Study in Greece with Literature Review.Oncology research and treatment · 2024Review
- Ethanol Metabolism and Melanoma.Cancers · 2023Review
- Baseline and lifetime alcohol consumption and risk of skin cancer in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition cohort (EPIC).International journal of cancer · 2023Article
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- The cure from within? a review of the microbiome and diet in melanoma.Cancer metastasis reviews · 2022Review
- Nutritional Interventions for Patients with Melanoma: From Prevention to Therapy-An Update.Nutrients · 2021Review
- Alcohol Intake and Risk of Incident Melanoma: A Pooled Analysis of Three Prospective Studies in the United States.Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology · 2016Article
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Abstract
While alcohol consumption is known to increase the risk of several types of cancer, evidence regarding the association between alcohol and melanoma is inconclusive. This pooled analysis was conducted to examine total alcohol consumption (grams per day), and type of alcohol consumed (beer, wine, beer and wine combined, and liquor) in relation to melanoma among women using original data from eight completed case-control studies (1886 cases and 2113 controls), with adjustment for the potential confounding effects of sun exposure-related factors. We found a positive association with ever consuming alcohol [adjusted pooled odds ratio (pOR) 1.3, 95 % confidence interval (CI) 1.1-1.5]. Specifically the pORs were 1.4 (95 % CI 1.1-1.8) for wine, 1.1 (95 % CI 0.9-1.5) for beer and 1.2 (95 % CI 1.0-1.4) for liquor. However, the pOR for the highest fourth of consumption compared with never consumption was 1.0 (95 % CI 0.7-1.3) without evidence of a trend with increasing amount of total alcohol, or separately with amount of beer, wine or liquor consumed. Stratifying by anatomic site of lesion, number of nevi, age group, or histologic subtype did not alter these results. Although the results showed a weak positive association between ever consuming alcohol and melanoma occurrence, our findings do not provide strong support for the hypothesis that alcohol consumption plays a role in the development of melanoma in women.
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