ReviewCurrent nutrition reports2019
Does Alcohol Use Affect Cancer Risk?
Review in Current nutrition reports, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 28 citations in OpenAlex.
- The relationship between alcohol use and dementia in adults aged more than 60 years: a combined analysis of prospective, individual-participant data from 15 international studies.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2023Pooled it
- Effects of COVID-19 economic impacts on alcohol use disorder symptoms are mediated by maximum and volume of alcohol intake: Data from the National Alcohol Survey's COVID Cohort.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2026Article
- Changing University Students' Habit Strength Towards Alcohol Consumption Using Affectively and Cognitively Framed Messages.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Joint association of alcohol consumption and adiposity with alcohol- and obesity-related cancer in a population sample of 399,575 UK adults.The British journal of nutrition · 2023Article
- A Lifestyle Risk Reduction Model for Preventing High-Risk Substance Use Across the Lifespan.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2023Article
- Factors influencing the acceptability of alcohol drinking for a patient with colorectal cancer.PloS one · 2023Article
- Associations Between Physical Activity and Alcohol Consumption in Rural Cancer Survivors.Frontiers in oncology · 2022Article
- Alcohol Use and Cancer in the European Union.European addiction research · 2021Review
- "Have a little less, feel a lot better": Mixed-method evaluation of an alcohol intervention.Addictive behaviors reports · 2020Article
- Alcohol Use and Cancers of the Gastrointestinal Tract. Epidemiology and Preventive Implications.Frontiers in oncology · 2020Article
- Alcohol use and binge drinking among U.S. men, pregnant and non-pregnant women ages 18-44: 2002-2017.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2019Article
- Alcohol Abuse, Consequences, and Treatments from the Perspective of Traditional Iranian Medicine: A Review Study.Addiction & health · 2019Review
- A Review of Alcohol-Related Harms: A Recent Update.Addiction & health · 2019Review
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Abstract
purpose of reviewTo provide an overview of the risk relationships between alcohol use and cancer and of the alcohol-attributable cancer burden; to highlight areas of controversy in the alcohol-cancer relationship; to examine the reasons why these risk relationships have not received greater public attention. RECENT
findingsIn 2016, alcohol caused an estimated 376,200 cancer deaths, 10.0 million cancer years of life lost (YLLs), 236,600 cancer years lived with disability (YLDs), and 10.3 million cancer disability-adjusted years of life (DALYs), representing 4.2%, 4.2%, 4.6%, and 4.2% of all deaths, YLLs, YLDs, and DALYs lost due to cancer, respectively, proportionally highest in high- and upper-middle-income countries. Alcohol use is a major contributor to cancer and is linked to the most prevalent types of cancer. No threshold for the effects of alcohol on cancer has yet been identified, and thus, abstinence is best for cancer prevention. Greater public awareness of the relationship between alcohol use and cancer is advisable.
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