Alcohol intake and breast cancer risk: weighing the overall evidence

JA McDonald, A Goyal, MB Terry - Current breast cancer reports, 2013 - Springer
Moderate alcohol consumption has been linked to an approximate 30%–50% increased risk
in breast cancer. Case-control and cohort studies have consistently observed this modest …

Moderate alcohol consumption and breast cancer in women: from epidemiology to mechanisms and interventions

PJ Brooks, S Zakhari - Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Epidemiologic studies indicate that moderate alcohol consumption increases breast cancer
risk in women. Understanding the mechanistic basis of this relationship has important …

Alcohol use and breast cancer: a critical review

KD Shield, I Soerjomataram… - Alcoholism: Clinical and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The objective of this study was to outline the biological pathways of alcohol‐attributable
breast cancer, the epidemiological risk relationship between alcohol consumption and …

Alcohol use and breast cancer survival among participants in the Women's Health Initiative

SJ Lowry, K Kapphahn, R Chlebowski, CI Li - … Epidemiology, Biomarkers & …, 2016 - AACR
Background: Alcohol increases the risk of breast cancer even at moderate levels of intake.
However, the relationship between alcohol consumption and mortality among breast cancer …

Links between alcohol consumption and breast cancer: a look at the evidence

Y Liu, N Nguyen, GA Colditz - Women's health, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Alcohol consumption by adult women is consistently associated with risk of breast cancer.
Several questions regarding alcohol and breast cancer need to be addressed. Menarche to …

Alcohol intake and breast cancer risk among young women

P Berstad, H Ma, L Bernstein, G Ursin - Breast Cancer Research and …, 2008 - Springer
Introduction Alcohol intake has been consistently associated with breast cancer risk, but the
importance of timing of intake and the impact of beverage type are unclear. Methods We …

Lifetime alcohol intake and breast cancer risk

MB Terry, FF Zhang, G Kabat, JA Britton… - Annals of …, 2006 - Elsevier
PURPOSE: Moderate alcohol intake of one to two drinks per day has been consistently
associated with a 30–50% increase in breast cancer. Despite the consistency in the overall …

[HTML][HTML] Benign breast disease, recent alcohol consumption, and risk of breast cancer: a nested case–control study

RM Tamimi, C Byrne, HJ Baer, B Rosner… - Breast cancer …, 2005 - Springer
Introduction Alcohol consumption is a well-established risk factor for breast cancer. Some
studies have suggested that the risk of breast cancer associated with alcohol consumption is …

Alcohol consumption and risk of postmenopausal breast cancer by subtype: the women's health initiative observational study

CI Li, RT Chlebowski, M Freiberg… - Journal of the …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Background Alcohol consumption is a well-established risk factor for breast cancer. This
association is thought to be largely hormonally driven, so alcohol use may be more strongly …

[HTML][HTML] Female breast cancer and alcohol consumption: a review of the literature

C Scoccianti, B Lauby-Secretan, PY Bello… - American journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Context Consumption of alcoholic beverages is one of the single most important known and
modifiable risk factor for human cancer. Among women, breast cancer is the most common …