Alcohol use and cancer in the European Union

J Rehm, KD Shield - European Addiction Research, 2021 - karger.com
Background: Cancers constitute a major non-communicable disease category globally and
in the European Union (EU). Summary: Alcohol use has been established as a major cause …

Rethinking unhealthy alcohol use in the United States: a structured review

JR Volpicelli, P Menzies - Substance abuse: research and …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Greater than moderate alcohol use spans a continuum that includes high levels of total
alcohol consumed per period (heavy drinking) as well as episodes of intense drinking …

Testing alcohol labels as a tool to communicate cancer risk to drinkers: a real-world quasi-experimental study

E Hobin, A Weerasinghe, K Vallance… - Journal of Studies on …, 2020 - jsad.com
Objective: This study tested the initial and continued effects of cancer warning labels on
drinkers' recall and knowledge that alcohol can cause cancer. Method: A quasi-experiment …

Awareness of alcohol as a carcinogen and support for alcohol control policies

AB Seidenberg, KP Wiseman, RH Eck, KD Blake… - American Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Introduction Alcohol use increases cancer risk, yet awareness of this association is low.
Alcohol control policies have the potential to reduce alcohol-caused cancer morbidity and …

Do beliefs about alcohol and cancer risk vary by alcoholic beverage type and heart disease risk beliefs?

AB Seidenberg, KP Wiseman, WMP Klein - … Epidemiology, Biomarkers & …, 2023 - AACR
Background: Alcohol is a leading risk factor for cancer, yet awareness of the alcohol–cancer
link is low. Awareness may be influenced by perceptions of potential health benefits of …

Estimation of cancers caused by light to moderate alcohol consumption in the European Union

P Rovira, J Rehm - European journal of public health, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Background Research has identified alcohol to be an important risk factor for several types
of cancers. This study estimates the number of incident cancers attributable to alcohol …

Alcohol and cancer: existing knowledge and evidence gaps across the cancer continuum

SM Gapstur, EV Bandera, DH Jernigan… - … Biomarkers & Prevention, 2022 - AACR
Alcoholic beverages are carcinogenic to humans. Globally, an estimated 4.1% of new
cancer cases in 2020 were attributable to alcoholic beverages. However, the full cancer …

Baseline assessment of alcohol-related knowledge of and support for alcohol warning labels among alcohol consumers in northern Canada and associations with key …

K Vallance, T Stockwell, J Zhao, S Shokar… - Journal of studies on …, 2020 - jsad.com
Objective: Evidence-informed alcohol warning labels (AWLs) are a promising, well-targeted
strategy to increase consumer awareness of health risks. We assessed consumers' baseline …

Awareness of alcohol as a breast cancer risk factor and intentions to reduce alcohol consumption among US young adult women

MA Alalwan, L Long, KA Hirko… - Translational …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Alcohol consumption is prevalent in young adult women and linked with breast cancer risk.
Research to inform interventions targeting alcohol consumption as a breast cancer …

Moving beyond the “health halo” of alcohol: what will it take to achieve population awareness of the cancer risks of alcohol?

JL Hay, MT Kiviniemi, H Orom, EA Waters - … Epidemiology, Biomarkers & …, 2023 - AACR
We discuss the implications of Seidenberg and colleagues' report confirming low levels of
accurate awareness of the cancer harms associated with alcohol use, including wine, beer …