Attributable fraction of alcohol consumption on cancer using population-based nationwide cancer incidence and mortality data in the Republic of Korea

BMC Cancer

Elisabete Weiderpass¹  Paolo Boffetta³  Mathieu Boniol⁴  Sue Kyung Park⁵  Sung-Il Cho⁹  Sun Ha Jee⁶  Duk-Hee Lee^1,11  Kyu-Won Jung²  Aesun Shin⁸  Boram Lee²  Hai-Rim Shin^1,10  Sohee Park⁷ 

[1]Samfundet Folkhälsan, Helsinki, Finland

[2]Division of Cancer Registration and Surveillance, National Cancer Center, Goyang, South Korea

[3]The Tisch Cancer Institute and Institute for Translational Epidemiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA

[4]International Prevention Research Institute, Lyon, France

[5]Department of Biomedical Science, Seoul National University Graduate School, Cancer Research Institute, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea

[6]Department of Epidemiology and Health Promotion, Institute for Health Promotion, Graduate School of Public Health, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea

[7]Department of Biostatistics, Graduate School of Public Health, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea

[8]Department of Preventive Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea

[9]Graduate School of Public Health and Institute of Health and Environment, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea

[10]Western Pacific Regional Office, World Health Organization, Manila, Philippines

[11]Department of Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea

关键词: Asia;    Lifestyle;    Population attributable fraction;    Risk factor;   

Others  :  857307
DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2407-14-420

 received in 2013-08-02, accepted in 2014-05-20,  发布年份 2014

【 摘 要 】

Background

In the Republic of Korea, cancer is the most common cause of death, and cancer incidence and mortality rates are the highest in East Asia. As alcoholic beverages are carcinogenic to humans, we estimated the burden of cancer related to alcohol consumption in the Korean population.

Methods

The cancer sites studied were those for which there is convincing evidence of a positive association with alcohol consumption: oral cavity, pharynx, esophagus, colon, rectum, liver, larynx and female breast. Sex- and cancer-specific population attributable fractions (PAF) were calculated based on: 1) the prevalence of alcohol drinkers among adults ≥20 years of age in 1989; 2) the average daily alcohol consumption (g/day) among drinkers in 1998; 3) relative risk (RR) estimates for the association between alcohol consumption and site-specific cancer incidence obtained either from a large Korean cohort study or, when more than one Korean study was available for a specific cancer site, meta-analyses were performed and the resulting meta-RRs were used; 4) national cancer incidence and mortality data from 2009.

Results

Among men, 3% (2,866 cases) of incident cancer cases and 2.8% (1,234 deaths) of cancer deaths were attributable to alcohol consumption. Among women, 0.5% (464 cancer cases) of incident cancers and 0.1% (32 deaths) of cancer deaths were attributable to alcohol consumption. In particular, the PAF for alcohol consumption in relation to oral cavity cancer incidence among Korean men was 29.3%, and the PAFs for pharyngeal and laryngeal cancer incidence were 43.3% and 25.8%, respectively. Among Korean women, the PAF for colorectal cancer incidence was the highest (4.2%) and that for breast cancer incidence was only 0.2%. Avoiding alcohol consumption, or reducing it from the median of the highest 4th quartile of consumption (56.0 g/day for men, 28.0 g/day for women) to the median of the lowest quartile (2.80 g/day for men, 0.80 g/day for women), would reduce the burden of alcohol-related cancers in Korea.

Conclusions

A reduction in alcohol consumption would decrease the cancer burden and a significant impact is anticipated specifically for the cancers oral cavity, pharynx, and larynx among men in the Republic of Korea.

【 授权许可】

   
2014 Park et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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