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SUBMITTER: Lucenteforte E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3265544 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lucenteforte E E La Vecchia C C Silverman D D Petersen G M GM Bracci P M PM Ji B T BT Bosetti C C Li D D Gallinger S S Miller A B AB Bueno-de-Mesquita H B HB Talamini R R Polesel J J Ghadirian P P Baghurst P A PA Zatonski W W Fontham E E Bamlet W R WR Holly E A EA Gao Y T YT Negri E E Hassan M M Cotterchio M M Su J J Maisonneuve P P Boffetta P P Duell E J EJ
Annals of oncology : official journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology 20110502 2
<h4>Background</h4>Heavy alcohol drinking has been related to pancreatic cancer, but the issue is still unsolved.<h4>Methods</h4>To evaluate the role of alcohol consumption in relation to pancreatic cancer, we conducted a pooled analysis of 10 case-control studies (5585 cases and 11,827 controls) participating in the International Pancreatic Cancer Case-Control Consortium. We computed pooled odds ratios (ORs) by estimating study-specific ORs adjusted for selected covariates and pooling them usin ...[more]