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Alcohol and Cancer Risks: A Guide for Health Professionals

16 pages. Includes bibliographic references. This report reviews and discusses the epidemiology of alcohol and cancer and highlights the need to raise both professional and public awareness of the links between alcohol consumption and cancer. Contents: Key Facts, Opportunities for interventions, The Scottish Context, Patterns of alcohol consumption: Age and gender, Patterns of alcohol consumption and deprivation, Alcohol consumption and cancer risk, Cancer of the oral cavity and pharynx, Cancer of the female breast, Cancer of the larynx, Cancer of the oesophagus, Cancer of the liver, Cancers of the colon and rectum, and References.

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