In most populations, the occurrence of bladder cancer is 3–4 times more frequent in men
than in women. 1 This reflects the more frequent exposure of men to tobacco-smoking and to …

Objective: To analyse the role of various aspects of the Mediterranean diet in several
common epithelial cancers, including digestive and selected non-digestive tract neoplasms …

Background. To compare the strength of evidence provided by the epidemiological literature
on the association between alcohol consumption and the risk of 14 major alcohol-related …

Most studies of diet and colorectal cancer have considered nutrients and micronutrients, but
the role of foods or food groups remains open to debate. To elucidate the issue, we …

On the basis of overall national death certification data, it is not possible to analyse mortality
from cervical cancer in Europe, since 20–65% of deaths from uterine cancer in largest …

To better understand the nutritional etiology of squamous cell esophageal cancer, we
conducted a case‐control study in 3 areas of northern Italy. A total of 304 incident …

Besides tobacco and alcohol, diet has been thought to be associated with laryngeal cancer
risk. We thus analyzed the role of various food groups, as well as specific seasoning fats, in …

Mortality data, abstracted from the WHO database, are presented in tabular form for 26
cancer sites or groups of sites, plus total cancer mortality, in 35 European countries during …

BACKGROUND To the authors' knowledge, limited data are available from Mediterranean
populations concerning risk factors for malignant melanoma. A few Italian case–control …

Upper aerodigestive tract cancers are strongly related to smoking, and their incidence is
substantially lower in former smokers than in continuing smokers. To estimate the effect of …