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. 2000 Sep 4;83(7):949–951. doi: 10.1054/bjoc.2000.1360

Alcohol and breast cancer risk: the alcoholism paradox

H Kuper 1, W Ye 2, E Weiderpass 2, A Ekbom 1,2, D Trichopoulos 1,2, O Nyrén 2, H-O Adami 1,2
PMCID: PMC2374691  PMID: 10970699

Abstract

A population-based cohort study of 36 856 women diagnosed with alcoholism in Sweden between 1965 and 1995 found that alcoholic women had only a small 15% increase in breast-cancer incidence compared to the general female population. It is therefore apparent, contrary to expectation, that alcoholism does not increase breast-cancer risk in proportion to presumed ethanol intake. © 2000 Cancer Research Campaign

Keywords: alcoholism, alcohol, breast cancer

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