Type of alcoholic beverage and risk of head and neck cancer - A pooled analysis within the INHANCE Consortium

Mark P. Purdue; Mia Hashibe; Julien Berthiller; Carlo La Vecchia; Luigino Dal Maso; Rolando Herrero; Silvia Franceschi; Xavier Castellsague; Qingyi Wei; Erich M. Sturgis; Hal Morgenstern; Zuo Feng Zhang; Fabio Levi; Renato Talamini; Elaine Smith; Joshua Muscat; Philip Lazarus; Stephen M. Schwartz; Chu Chen; Jose Eluf Neto; Victor Wünsch-Filho; David Zaridze; Sergio Koifman; Maria Paula Curado; Simone Benhamou; Elena Matos; Neonilia Szeszenia-Dabrowska; Andrew F. Olshan; Juan Lence; Ana Menezes; Alexander W. Daudt; Ioan Nicolae Mates; Agnieszka Pilarska; Eleonora Fabianova; Peter Rudnai; Debbie Winn; Gilles Ferro; Paul Brennan; Paolo Boffetta; Richard B. Hayes

doi:10.1093/aje/kwn306

Type of alcoholic beverage and risk of head and neck cancer - A pooled analysis within the INHANCE Consortium

Mark P. Purdue
, Mia Hashibe
, Julien Berthiller
, Carlo La Vecchia
, Luigino Dal Maso
, Rolando Herrero
, Silvia Franceschi
, Xavier Castellsague
, Qingyi Wei
, Erich M. Sturgis
, Hal Morgenstern
, Zuo Feng Zhang
, Fabio Levi
, Renato Talamini
, Elaine Smith
, Joshua Muscat
, Philip Lazarus
, Stephen M. Schwartz
, Chu Chen
, Jose Eluf Neto

Victor Wünsch-Filho, David Zaridze, Sergio Koifman, Maria Paula Curado, Simone Benhamou, Elena Matos, Neonilia Szeszenia-Dabrowska, Andrew F. Olshan, Juan Lence, Ana Menezes, Alexander W. Daudt, Ioan Nicolae Mates, Agnieszka Pilarska, Eleonora Fabianova, Peter Rudnai, Debbie Winn, Gilles Ferro, Paul Brennan, Paolo Boffetta, Richard B. Hayes

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National Institutes of Health
International Agency for Research on Cancer
University of Milan
IRCCS Centro di Riferimento Oncologico - Aviano PN
Instituto de Investigación Epidemiológica
Institute Catala Oncologia
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
University of California at Los Angeles
University of Lausanne
University of Iowa
Pennsylvania State University
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Universidade de São Paulo
Russian N.N. Blokhin Cancer Research Centre
Escola Nacional de Suade Publica
Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
National School of Public Health
Universidade Federal de Pelotas
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy
Medical University of Warsaw
Specialized State Health Institute
Hungarian National Institute of Environmental Health

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Abstract

The authors pooled data from 15 case-control studies of head and neck cancer (9,107 cases, 14,219 controls) to investigate the independent associations with consumption of beer, wine, and liquor. In particular, they calculated associations with different measures of beverage consumption separately for subjects who drank beer only (858 cases, 986 controls), for liquor-only drinkers (499 cases, 527 controls), and for wine-only drinkers (1,021 cases, 2,460 controls), with alcohol never drinkers (1,124 cases, 3,487 controls) used as a common reference group. The authors observed similar associations with ethanol-standardized consumption frequency for beer-only drinkers (odds ratios (ORs) = 1.6, 1.9, 2.2, and 5.4 for ≤5, 6-15, 16-30, and >30 drinks per week, respectively; P_trend < 0.0001) and liquor-only drinkers (ORs = 1.6, 1.5, 2.3, and 3.6; P < 0.0001). Among wine-only drinkers, the odds ratios for moderate levels of consumption frequency approached the null, whereas those for higher consumption levels were comparable to those of drinkers of other beverage types (ORs = 1.1, 1.2, 1.9, and 6.3; P < 0.0001). Study findings suggest that the relative risks of head and neck cancer for beer and liquor are comparable. The authors observed weaker associations with moderate wine consumption, although they cannot rule out confounding from diet and other lifestyle factors as an explanation for this finding. Given the presence of heterogeneity in study-specific results, their findings should be interpreted with caution.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	132-142
Number of pages	11
Journal	American Journal of Epidemiology
Volume	169
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwn306
State	Published - Jan 2009

Keywords

Alcohol drinking
Alcoholic beverages
Beer
Case-control studies
Head and neck neoplasms
Meta-analysis
Wine

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Purdue, M. P., Hashibe, M., Berthiller, J., La Vecchia, C., Maso, L. D., Herrero, R., Franceschi, S., Castellsague, X., Wei, Q., Sturgis, E. M., Morgenstern, H., Zhang, Z. F., Levi, F., Talamini, R., Smith, E., Muscat, J., Lazarus, P., Schwartz, S. M., Chen, C., ... Hayes, R. B. (2009). Type of alcoholic beverage and risk of head and neck cancer - A pooled analysis within the INHANCE Consortium. American Journal of Epidemiology, 169(2), 132-142. https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwn306

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