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Title

Alcohol intake, beverage choice, and cancer: a cohort study in a large kaiser permanente population.

Publication type

Journal Article

Year of Publication

2015

Authors

Klatsky, Arthur L, Li, Yan, Nicole Tran, H, Baer, David, Udaltsova, Natalia, Armstrong, Mary Anne, Friedman, Gary D

Journal

Perm J

Volume

Issue

Pagination

28-34

Date published

2015 Spring

ISSN

1552-5775

Keywords

Adult, Alcohol Drinking, Alcoholic Beverages, Choice Behavior, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Humans, incidence, male, Neoplasms, Proportional Hazards Models, Risk Factors, San Francisco, SEER Program, Surveys and Questionnaires

Abstract

The authors studied incident cancer risk from 1978 to 1985 and through follow-up in 2012 relative to light-to-moderate and heavy drinking and to the choice of alcoholic beverage in a cohort of 124,193 persons. With lifelong abstainers as referent, heavy drinking (≥ 3 drinks per day) was associated with increased risk of 5 cancer types: upper airway/digestive tract, lung, female breast, colorectal, and melanoma, with light-to-moderate drinking related to all but lung cancer.

DOI

https://dx.doi.org/10.7812/TPP/14-189

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