Alcohol consumption and risk of breast cancer. Lancet 1983 Sep 24;2(8352):724-6
Date
09/24/1983Pubmed ID
6136850DOI
10.1016/s0140-6736(83)92258-4Scopus ID
2-s2.0-0020567061 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site) 76 CitationsAbstract
To investigate whether women who consume alcoholic beverages have a greater risk of breast cancer than women who never drink data from a population-based, case-control study, the Centers for Disease Control's Cancer and Steroid Hormone Study, were examined. During the first 15 months of data collection, 1226 women aged 20--54 with newly diagnosed breast cancer and 1279 women of the same age randomly selected from the general population were interviewed. Women who consumed alcoholic beverages had no greater risk of breast cancer than non-drinkers (relative risk 1.0, 95% confidence interval 0.8--1.2). Breast-cancer risk was not associated with the average amount of alcohol consumed per week nor with the type of alcoholic beverage consumed. Compared with non-drinkers, the relative risks of breast cancer for women who ever drank beer, wine, or spirits were 1.0, 0.8, and 0.9, respectively.
Author List
Webster LA, Layde PM, Wingo PA, Ory HWMESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold
AdultAlcohol Drinking
Beer
Breast Neoplasms
Ethanol
Female
Humans
Middle Aged
Religion
Risk
Wine
