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American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 120, No. 3: 350-357
Copyright © 1984 by The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health

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ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONSUMPTION AND BREAST CANCER IN A FRENCH CASE-CONTROL STUDY

MONIQUE G. LÊ1,, CATHERINE HILL2, ANDREW KRAMAR2 and ROBERT FLAMANT2

1Institut National de la Sané et de la Recherche Médicale Unité 21, Villejuif, France
2Département de Statistique Médicale, Institut Gustave Roussy Villejuif, France

Reprint requests to Dr. Monique Lê, Institut Gustave Roueay, Rue Camille Desmoulim, 94805, Villejuif, France

An assocletion between regular consumption of alcohol with meals and breast cancer was found in a French case-control study of 1,010 women with braast cancer and 1,950 women wtth nonmalignant diseases; the relative risk of breast cancer for women drinklng alcoholic beverages with meals compared with nondrinkers was 1.47 (p = 10–4) allowing for classical risk factors. Detailed information on alcohol consumption was obtained from 500 cases and 945 controls; the risks of breast cancer were greater for women drinking beer and for women drinking wine than tor nondrinkers, and the risk increased with the amount of beer, ot wine and of total alcohol consumption in grams of pure alcohol.

alcohol drlnklng; breast neoplasms; retrospective studles


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