Alcohol consumption and risk of cancer: a Mendelian randomization analysis of four biobanks and consortium data.

BMC Med · 2025 · PMC12707013 · PMID 41398582

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Among the seven highlighted cancer types, we saw a multiply-corrected significant positive estimate for combined head/neck cancer (OR 1.51, p = 0.001), and nominally significant positive estimates for colorectal (OR 1.21, p = 0.035) and oesophageal (OR 1.42 p = 0.033) cancer.

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