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Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Smoking, alcohol and gastric cancer risk in Korean men: the National Health Insurance Corporation Study
British Journal of Cancer advance online publication 17 July 2007;






We investigated the risk of gastric cancer by subsite in relation to cigarette smoking and alcohol in a large population-based cohort of 669 570 Korean men in an insurance plan followed for an average 6.5 years,

A moderate association was found between smoking, cardia and upper-third and distal cancers.

We also found a positive association between alcohol consumption and distal and total gastric cancer.

Combined exposure to high levels of tobacco and alcohol increased the risk estimates further; cardia and upper-third gastric cancers were more strongly related to smoking status than distal gastric cancer.

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