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Re: Carbonated Soft Drink Consumption and Risk of Esophageal Adenocarcinoma
Affiliations of authors: Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche "Mario Negri," Milan, Italy (SG, CLV); Unità di Epidemiologia e Biostatistica, Centro di Riferimento Oncologico, Aviano (Pordenone), Italy (RT, LDM); Cancer Prevention and Control Unit, Institut Català d'Oncologia, L'Hospitalet, Spain (EF); Department of Experimental and Health Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain (EF); International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France (SF); Istituto di Statistica Medica e Biometria, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy (CLV)
Correspondence to: Silvano Gallus, ScD, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche "Mario Negri," Via Eritrea, 62, 20157 Milan, Italy (e-mail: gallus@marionegri.it).
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Mayne et al. (1) provided relevant information on the association between carbonated soft drinks (CSD) and esophageal cancer risk using data from a population-based casecontrol study conducted in the United States. CSD may increase gastric distension, and consequently gastroesophageal reflux disease and could hence have contributed to the increasing trend of esophageal adenocarcinoma (2), which parallels
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J Natl Cancer Inst 2006 98: 646-647.