Journal of the National Cancer Institute Advance Access originally published online on June 22, 2009
JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2009 101(15):1093; doi:10.1093/jnci/djp166
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RE: Moderate Alcohol Intake and Cancer Incidence in Women
Affiliations of authors: Department of Laboratory Medicine, Örebro University Hospital, Örebro, Sweden (LHB); Center for Family Medicine and Community Health, Karolinska Institute, Huddinge, Sweden (HT)
Correspondence to: Lars H. Breimer, MD, PhD, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Örebro University Hospital, SE-701 85 Örebro, Sweden (e-mail: lars.breimer@orebroll.se).
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Allen et al. describe an increased risk of cancer of the upper aerodigestive tract, rectum, liver, and breast and reduced risk for a few other cancers in middle-aged women with low to moderate alcohol consumption on the basis of an average follow-up of 7.2 years (1). In the case of breast cancer, there was no dependence of risk on whether alcohol was consumed in the