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Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Alcohol Intake and Renal Cell Cancer in a Pooled Analysis of 12 Prospective Studies
JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2007 99(10):801-810




The association between alcohol intake and risk of renal cell cancer has been inconsistent in case–control studies. An inverse association between alcohol intake and risk of renal cell cancer has been suggested in a few prospective studies, but each of these studies included a small number of cases.

We performed a pooled analysis of 12 prospective studies that included 530469 women and 229575 men with maximum follow-up times of 7–20 years.

Compared with nondrinking, alcohol consumption (≥15 g/day, equivalent to slightly more than one alcoholic drink per day) was associated with a decreased risk of renal cell cancer

Moderate alcohol consumption was associated with a lower risk of renal cell cancer among both women and men in this pooled analysis.

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