title: Cancer cases attributable to alcohol consumption in Brazil.
abstract: This is the first study specifically estimating the proportion of new cancer cases that could be attributable to alcohol consumption in the year 2012 in Brazil. The proportion of exposed cases and the association between alcohol and lip and oral cavity, nasopharynx, other pharynx, larynx, esophagus, colorectum, female breast, liver, and intrahepatic bile ducts cancers was based on data made available by the Integrator System of Hospital Cancer Registries. The cancer incidence was obtained from the estimates produced by GLOBOCAN. In 2012 there were 437,592 new cancer cases in Brazil, excluding non-melanoma skin cancers. Of these, alcohol consumption was responsible for 4.8% of all new cases. The alcohol-attributable fraction was higher for men (7.0%) than for women (2.6%). A total of 21,000 new cancer cases, 15,554 in men and 5,646 in women, could be attributable to alcohol consumption. In Brazil, a significant fraction of cancer cases can be attributed to alcohol consumption, and public health measures to prevent heavy alcohol use should be implemented.
authors: Clinical Epidemiology Research Group, Clinical Research Division, National Cancer Institute - INCA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Post Graduate Program in Neurology, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro - UNIRIO, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Electronic address: lthuler@inca.gov.br.
authors: Luiz Claudio Santos
authors: LC
authors: Thuler
authors: Clinical Epidemiology Research Group, Clinical Research Division, National Cancer Institute - INCA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
authors: Raquel Ferreira
authors: RF
authors: de Menezes
authors: Clinical Epidemiology Research Group, Coordination of Education, National Cancer Institute - INCA, Brazil.
authors: Anke
authors: A
authors: Bergmann
mesh_terms: D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000453:epidemiology*; D001938:Brazil / Q000453:epidemiology; D015897:Comorbidity; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012042:Registries; D012737:Sex Factors
keywords: Alcohol consumption; Cancer; Incidence; Population attributable fraction; Risk