Background Prospective data on alcohol consumption, cigarette smoking and risk of head-
neck cancer (HNC) subtypes, ie oral cavity cancer (OCC), oro-/hypopharyngeal cancer …

Aims: To quantify the magnitude of the association between alcohol and oral and
pharyngeal cancer (OPC) by sex, smoking habits, type of alcoholic beverage and other …

Background Alcohol is a well-established risk factor for head and neck cancer (HNC). This
study aims to explore the effect of alcohol intensity and duration, as joint continuous …

Background Head and neck cancer (HNC) is the seventh most common type of cancer in the
world and constitute 5% of the entire cancers worldwide. The global burden of HNC …

Background: The magnitude of risk conferred by the interaction between tobacco and
alcohol use on the risk of head and neck cancers is not clear because studies have used …

Background At least 75% of head and neck cancers are attributable to a combination of
cigarette smoking and alcohol drinking. A precise understanding of the independent …

In this article, we reviewed the association between alcohol drinking and head and neck
cancer (HNC) and its subsites, using the available literature. Alcohol drinking is an …

Alcohol consumption, together with tobacco, is the best recognised risk factor for oral and
pharyngeal cancers (OPC), but several important aspects of this association need to be …

We investigated the relation between head and neck cancer risk and alcohol consumption in
the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study. During 2 203 500 person-years of follow-up, 611 men …

A case-control study conducted from 1986 to 1989 using the Doubs Cancer Registry
included 299 cases of head and neck cancer and 645 controls from the general population …