Risk of upper aerodigestive tract cancer and type of alcoholic beverage: a European multicenter case-control study

Abstract

The study included 2,001 upper aerodigestive tract (UADT) cancer cases and 2,125 controls from 14 centres in 10 European countries. Risk of UADT cancer increased with increasing consumption of all three alcohol beverage types.

Our findings underscore the strong and comparable carcinogenic effect of ethanol in wine, beer and liquor on organs of the UADT.

Keywords

• Epidemiology
• Cancer
• Alcohol
• Wine
• Beer
• Liquor
• Head and neck cancer
• Upper aerodigestive tract cancer
• upper digestive-tract
• pharyngeal cancer
• oral-cavity
• ethanol-metabolism
• pooled analysis
• danish men
• tobacco
• consumption
• drinking
• smoking