Carcinogenicity of alcoholic beverages.

By R. Baan, K. Straif, Y. Grosse, B. Secretan, F. El Ghissassi, V. Bouvard, A. Altieri, V. Cogliano. The Lancet Oncology, 2007

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Subfields: Food Science, Pathology and Forensic Medicine

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Citations in the corpus

• Molecular mechanisms of alcohol-mediated carcinogenesis (2007, background): “In February 2007 an international group of epidemiologists and alcohol researchers met at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in Lyon, France, to evaluate the role of alcohol and its first metabolite, acetaldehyde, as potential carcinogens in experimental animals and human”
• Preventable exposures associated with human cancers. (2011, background): “Some subsequent studies, however, have shown that moderate alcohol consumption statistically significantly increases breast cancer risk (22).”
• THE RELATION BETWEEN DIFFERENT DIMENSIONS OF ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION AND BURDEN OF DISEASE - AN OVERVIEW (2010, neutral): “In February 2007, the Monograph Working Group of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) concluded that there was ‘sufficient evidence’ for the carcinogenicity of ethanol in animals and classified alcoholic beverages as carcinogenic to humans.”
• The relationship between different dimensions of alcohol use and the burden of disease—an update (2017, background): “Furthermore, the most recent IARC monographs found sufficient animal and epidemiological evidence to conclude that alcohol consumption plays a causal role in oral cavity, pharyngeal, laryngeal, oesophageal (limited to squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), liver, colon, rectal and female breast cancers [149”
• Alcohol drinking and colorectal cancer risk: an overall and dose-response meta-analysis of published studies. (2011, background): “Intake of alcohol is causally related to cancers of the oral cavity, pharynx, larynx, esophagus, liver, female breast, and colorectum [5, 6].”
• American Cancer Society guidelines on nutrition and physical activity for cancer prevention (2002, background): “Overall, the evidence indicates that total alcohol consumption is the important factor, not the type of alcoholic beverage consumed.(2,181) In addition, calories from excess alcohol can contribute to weight gain, and alcoholic beverages are the fifth largest contributor to caloric intake in the US a”
• Global cancer statistics (2011, background): “Alcohol consumption also increases the risk of breast cancer.(13,14)”
• Moderate alcohol intake and cancer incidence in women. (2009, background): “In 2007, the International Agency for Research on Cancer concluded that there is sufficient evidence that alcohol causes cancer of the oral cavity, pharynx, esophagus, larynx, colorectum, liver, and female breast ( 1 ).”