Open AccessAlcohol drinking and head and neck cancer risk: the joint effect of intensity and duration
Author(s) -
Gioia Di Credico,
Jerry Polesel,
Luigino Dal Maso,
Francesco Pauli,
Nicola Torelli,
Danièle Luce,
Loredana Radoï,
Keitaro Matsuo,
Diego Serraino,
Paul Brennan,
Ivana Holcátová,
Wolfgang Ahrens,
Παγώνα Λάγιου,
Cristina Canova,
Lorenzo Richiardi,
Claire M. Healy,
Kristina Kjærheim,
David I. Conway,
Gary J. Macfarlane,
Peter Thomson,
Antonio Agudo,
Silvia Franceschi,
Rolando Herrero,
Tatiatasha Toporcov,
Raquel A. Moyses,
Joshua E. Muscat,
Eva Negri,
Marta Vilensky,
Leticia Fernández,
María Paula Curado,
Ana Menezes,
Alexander W. Daudt,
Rosalina Jorge Koifman,
Victor Wünsch-Filho,
Andrew F. Olshan,
José P. Zevallos,
Erich M. Sturgis,
Guojun Li,
Fabio Levi,
ZuoFeng Zhang,
Hal Morgenstern,
Elaine Smith,
Philip Lazarus,
Carlo La Vecchia,
Werner Garavello,
Chu Chen,
Stephen M. Schwartz,
Tongzhang Zheng,
Thomas L. Vaughan,
Karl T. Kelsey,
Michael D. McClean,
Simone Benhamou,
Richard B. Hayes,
Mark P. Purdue,
Maura L. Gillison,
Stimson P. Schantz,
Yu Gao,
ShuChun Chuang,
Paolo Boffetta,
Mia Hashibe,
Amy Lee Yuan-Chin,
Valeria Edefonti
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
british journal of cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.833
H-Index - 236
eISSN - 1532-1827
pISSN - 0007-0920
DOI - 10.1038/s41416-020-01031-z
Subject(s) - medicine , head and neck cancer , confounding , odds ratio , larynx , risk factor , cancer , relative risk , oncology , surgery , confidence interval
Alcohol 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.