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Smoking, alcohol consumption, and cancer: A mendelian randomisation study in UK Biobank and international genetic consortia participants.

Susanna C LarssonPaul CarterSiddhartha P KarMathew VithayathilAmy M MasonKarl MichaëlssonStephen Burgess
Published in: PLoS medicine (2020)
Our findings support the well-established relationship between smoking and lung cancer and suggest that smoking may also be a risk factor for cancer of the head and neck, oesophagus, stomach, cervix, and bladder. We found no evidence supporting a relationship between alcohol consumption and overall or site-specific cancer risk.
Keyphrases
  • alcohol consumption
  • papillary thyroid
  • smoking cessation
  • squamous cell
  • spinal cord injury
  • lymph node metastasis
  • squamous cell carcinoma
  • childhood cancer
  • gene expression
  • dna methylation