A meta-analysis of alcohol drinking and oral and pharyngeal cancers. Part 2 : results by subsites

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Oral and pharyngeal cancers are strongly related to alcohol drinking. We combined findings from all case-control and cohort studies published up to September 2009 and presented analyses by subsites, using a meta-analytic approach. Summary measures were obtained using random-effects models, and taking into account the correlation between estimates from the same study. We also performed a dose-risk analysis, using a random-effects meta-regression model. Compared to non- or occasional drinkers, the overall relative risks (RR) for light drinkers were 1.17 (95% confidence interval, CI, 1.01-1.35) for oral (nine studies) and 1.23 (95% CI, 0.87-1.73) for pharyngeal (five studies) cancer, with no significant heterogeneity between the two sites (p=0.793). RRs for heavy drinkers were 4.64 (95% CI, 3.78-5.70) for oral (17 studies) and 6.62 (95% CI, 4.72-9.29) for pharyngeal (17 studies) cancer (p of heterogeneity between the two sites=0.075). The summary RRs for heavy drinkers were 4.11 (95% CI, 2.46-6.87) for tongue (five studies), 7.76 (95% CI, 4.77-12.62) for oropharyngeal (four studies), and 9.03 (95% CI, 4.46-18.27) for hypopharyngeal (four studies) cancer. In conclusion, the alcohol-related RRs are higher for pharyngeal than for oral cancer, particularly at higher doses, while the association with cancer of the tongue was similar to that for oral cancer.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2010

Erschienen:

2010

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:46

Enthalten in:

Oral oncology - 46(2010), 10 vom: 15. Okt., Seite 720-6

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Turati, Federica [VerfasserIn]
Garavello, Werner [VerfasserIn]
Tramacere, Irene [VerfasserIn]
Bagnardi, Vincenzo [VerfasserIn]
Rota, Matteo [VerfasserIn]
Scotti, Lorenza [VerfasserIn]
Islami, Farhad [VerfasserIn]
Corrao, Giovanni [VerfasserIn]
Boffetta, Paolo [VerfasserIn]
La Vecchia, Carlo [VerfasserIn]
Negri, Eva [VerfasserIn]

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Meta-Analysis
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Date Completed 20.04.2011

Date Revised 31.07.2014

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.oraloncology.2010.07.010

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NLM200484834