Although cigarette smoking and alcohol consumption increase risk for head and neck
cancers, there have been few attempts to model risks quantitatively and to formally evaluate …

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 …

Objective: Meta-analysis was used to summarize the published evidence on the
associations between alcohol and tobacco consumption and cancers of the oropharynx …

We carried out two case-control studies on the relative risk of head and neck cancer in
association with tobacco and alcohol consumption. The first study carried out at the ENT …

A unified analysis of the combined effects of alcohol and smoking in cancers of the upper
aerodigestive tract was conducted using polychotomous logistic regression to determine if …

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 …

Background. Independent carcinogenic effects of alcohol drinking and tobacco smoking as
well as their interaction can be usefully studied in a population of heavy drinkers and …

Data from case-control studies of respiratory cancer conducted in the Texas Gulf Coast
region between 1975 and 1980 were used to examine the effects of smoking and alcohol on …

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 …

Odds ratios for head and neck cancer increase with greater cigarette and alcohol use and
lower body mass index (BMI; weight (kg)/height2 (m2)). Using data from the International …