Oral Oncology
Volume 46, Issue 7 , Pages 497-503 , July 2010

A meta-analysis of alcohol drinking and oral and pharyngeal cancers. Part 1: Overall results and dose-risk relation

  • Irene Tramacere

      Affiliations

    • Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche “Mario Negri”, Milano, Italy
    • ,
  • Eva Negri

      Affiliations

    • Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche “Mario Negri”, Milano, Italy
    • ,
  • Vincenzo Bagnardi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Statistics, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy
    • Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, European Institute of Oncology, Milano, Italy
    • ,
  • Werner Garavello

      Affiliations

    • Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche “Mario Negri”, Milano, Italy
    • Clinica Otorinolaringoiatrica, DNTB, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy
    • ,
  • Matteo Rota

      Affiliations

    • Department of Statistics, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy
    • Department of Clinical Medicine and Prevention, Centre of Biostatistics for Clinical Epidemiology, University of Milan-Bicocca, Monza, Italy
    • ,
  • Lorenza Scotti

      Affiliations

    • Department of Statistics, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy
    • ,
  • Farhad Islami

      Affiliations

    • International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
    • Digestive Disease Research Center, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
    • ,
  • Giovanni Corrao

      Affiliations

    • Department of Statistics, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy
    • ,
  • Paolo Boffetta

      Affiliations

    • International Prevention Research Institute, Lyon, France
    • The Tisch Cancer Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
    • ,
  • Carlo La Vecchia

      Affiliations

    • Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche “Mario Negri”, Milano, Italy
    • Section of Medical Statistics, Department of Occupational Health, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche “Mario Negri”, Via Giuseppe La Masa 19, 20156 Milan, Italy. Tel.: +39 02 39 01 4527; fax: +39 02 33 200 231.

Received 22 February 2010 ,Revised 30 March 2010 ,Accepted 30 March 2010.

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Oral Oncology
Volume 46, Issue 7 , Pages 497-503 , July 2010

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