1. Alcohol drinking and head and neck cancer risk: the joint effect of intensity and duration
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Di Credico, Gioia, Polesel, Jerry, Dal Maso, Luigino, Pauli, Francesco, Torelli, Nicola, Luce, Daniele, Radoï, Loredana, Matsuo, Keitaro, Serraino, Diego, Brennan, Paul, Holcatova, Ivana, Ahrens, Wolfgang, Lagiou, Pagona, Canova, Cristina, Richiardi, Lorenzo, Healy, Claire M, Kjaerheim, Kristina, Conway, David I, Macfarlane, Gary J, Thomson, Peter, Agudo, Antonio, Znaor, Ariana, Franceschi, Silvia, Herrero, Rolando, Toporcov, Tatiana N, Moyses, Raquel A, Muscat, Joshua, Negri, Eva, Vilensky, Marta, Fernandez, Leticia, Curado, Maria Paula, Menezes, Ana, Daudt, Alexander W, Koifman, Rosalina, Wunsch-Filho, Victor, Olshan, Andrew F, Zevallos, Jose P, Sturgis, Erich M, Li, Guojun, Levi, Fabio, Zhang, Zuo-Feng, Morgenstern, Hal, Smith, Elaine, Lazarus, Philip, La Vecchia, Carlo, Garavello, Werner, Chen, Chu, Schwartz, Stephen M, Zheng, Tongzhang, Vaughan, Thomas L, Kelsey, Karl, McClean, Michael, Benhamou, Simone, Hayes, Richard B, Purdue, Mark P, Gillison, Maura, Schantz, Stimson, Yu, Guo-Pei, Chuang, Shu-Chun, Boffetta, Paolo, Hashibe, Mia, Yuan-Chin, Amy Lee, and Edefonti, Valeria
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Biomedical and Clinical Sciences ,Oncology and Carcinogenesis ,Dental/Oral and Craniofacial Disease ,Clinical Research ,Cancer ,Substance Misuse ,Clinical Trials and Supportive Activities ,Digestive Diseases ,Prevention ,Rare Diseases ,Alcoholism ,Alcohol Use and Health ,Tobacco Smoke and Health ,Tobacco ,2.2 Factors relating to the physical environment ,Oral and gastrointestinal ,Good Health and Well Being ,Adolescent ,Adult ,Aged ,Aged ,80 and over ,Alcohol Drinking ,Case-Control Studies ,Female ,Head and Neck Neoplasms ,Humans ,Laryngeal Neoplasms ,Male ,Middle Aged ,Mouth Neoplasms ,Oropharyngeal Neoplasms ,Risk Factors ,Severity of Illness Index ,Smoking ,Time Factors ,Young Adult ,Public Health and Health Services ,Oncology & Carcinogenesis ,Oncology and carcinogenesis - Abstract
BackgroundAlcohol is a well-established risk factor for head and neck cancer (HNC). This study aims to explore the effect of alcohol intensity and duration, as joint continuous exposures, on HNC risk.MethodsData from 26 case-control studies in the INHANCE Consortium were used, including never and current drinkers who drunk ≤10 drinks/day for ≤54 years (24234 controls, 4085 oral cavity, 3359 oropharyngeal, 983 hypopharyngeal and 3340 laryngeal cancers). The dose-response relationship between the risk and the joint exposure to drinking intensity and duration was investigated through bivariate regression spline models, adjusting for potential confounders, including tobacco smoking.ResultsFor all subsites, cancer risk steeply increased with increasing drinks/day, with no appreciable threshold effect at lower intensities. For each intensity level, the risk of oral cavity, hypopharyngeal and laryngeal cancers did not vary according to years of drinking, suggesting no effect of duration. For oropharyngeal cancer, the risk increased with durations up to 28 years, flattening thereafter. The risk peaked at the higher levels of intensity and duration for all subsites (odds ratio = 7.95 for oral cavity, 12.86 for oropharynx, 24.96 for hypopharynx and 6.60 for larynx).ConclusionsPresent results further encourage the reduction of alcohol intensity to mitigate HNC risk.
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- 2020