Alcohol, Beer and Lung Cancer—A Meaningful Relationship?
- 1 June 1984
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in International Journal of Epidemiology
- Vol. 13 (2) , 240-242
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/13.2.240
Abstract
Potter, JD (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Division of Human Nutrition, Kintore Avenue, Adelaide, South Australia 5000) and McMichael A J. Alcohol, beer and lung cancer a meaningful relationship? International Journal of Epidemiology1984, 13: 240–242. The epidemiological evidence relating alcohol consumption and lung cancer is reviewed. Four correlation studies have shown a relationship between alcohol, particularly beer, consumption and lung cancer. Beer consumption was a risk factor in one case-control study. Eight out of ten prospective studies show alcoholics and high alcohol consumers to be at greater risk of lung cancer. Not all of the increased risk in these studies is explainable in terms of confounding by tobacco consumption. There is some animal evidence which supports the effects of alcohol on the likelihood of developing lung cancer.Keywords
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