title: [Alcohol and cancer].
abstract: After calling attention to the serious problem that alcoholism represents in Portugal, the authors develop some considerations about the role of chronic alcoholism as a risk factor for certain anatomic localizations of cancer, especially of the esophagus. Thus, from this point of view, chronic alcoholism, when integrated in a socioprofessional context of cancer hazard and/or in a spectrum of environmental/dietetic agents which are a potential inducer of carcinogenesis, could exert a promoter or cocarcinogen effect. Finally, the importance of primary prevention is stressed.
authors.affiliation: Serviço de Gastrenterologia, Hospitais da Universidade de Coimbra.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sofia
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: de Freitas
mesh_terms: D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000009:adverse effects; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000150:complications* / Q000517:prevention & control; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology*; D011174:Portugal; D012307:Risk Factors