Table 2. Cancer related factors associated with past-year current alcohol intake.

Characteristic	Crude OR (95% CI)†	P value	Adjusted OR (95% CI)†	P value
Cancer
No	1		1
Yes	0.85 (0.81–0.88)	<0.001	1.01 (0.96–1.06)	0.781
Alcohol-related cancer type‡
No	1		1
Yes	0.66 (0.60–0.73)	<0.001	0.84 (0.75–0.94)	0.002
Length of cancer history, year
2–4	1		1
5–9	1.21 (1.07–1.38)	0.003	1.27 (1.11–1.46)	<0.001
10+	0.99 (0.88–1.11)	0.821	1.12 (0.99–1.26)	0.069

^†, OR: odds ratio; CI: confidence interval; adjusted OR adjusted for age, gender, race, education, marital status, and smoking. ^‡, alcohol related cancer types included breast, colon, rectum, mouth/tongue/lip, larynx-windpipe, esophagus, and liver cancers