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Risk of Alcohol Consumption in Bladder Cancer: Case-Control Study from a Nationwide Inpatient Database in Japan
Regular drinking of alcohol may favor the development of bladder cancer.
This study assessed the influence of alcohol consumption on the incidence of bladder cancer. Researchers from the University of Tokyo compared the alcohol drinking habits of 739 patients with bladder cancer with that of 7,196 healthy Japanese men and women.
Researchers found higher number of bladder cancer diagnoses among alcohol consumers than never consumers. The data from this study show that alcohol drinking might facilitate the onset of bladder cancer.
Research Summary Information
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2016
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Masayoshi Zaitsu, Fumiaki Nakamura, Satoshi Toyokawa, Akiko Tonooka, Takumi Takeuchi, Yukio Homma, Yasuki Kobayashi
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Department of Public Health, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo.
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