title: Alcohol and breast cancer risk: the alcoholism paradox.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology and Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention, Harvard University, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kuper
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Ye
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Weiderpass
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ekbom
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Trichopoulos
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Nyrén
authors.forename: H O
authors.initials: HO
authors.lastname: Adami
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000453:epidemiology; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology*; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D015331:Cohort Studies; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D012042:Registries; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012307:Risk Factors; D013548:Sweden / Q000453:epidemiology