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Alcohol Consumption

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Causes and Control of Colorectal Cancer

Part of the book series: Developments in Oncology ((DION,volume 78))

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Stocks in 1957 suggested in the Annual Report of the British Empire Cancer Campaign that alcohol consumption may be a causative factor for colorectal cancer (Stocks 1957). Numerous studies followed, and at the time of writing, 93 studies in humans have examined the relationship between previous alcohol consumption, colorectal adenomas and colorectal cancer. During the last decade a few modest experimental studies have also examined the effect of alcohol on chemically induced colorectal carcinogenesis in rat models. Several hypotheses have been proposed as to how alcohol might operate to cause colorectal tumors, at both a cellular and a pathophysiologic level.

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Kune, G.A. (1996). Alcohol Consumption. In: Causes and Control of Colorectal Cancer. Developments in Oncology, vol 78. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1273-4_7

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