In other alcohol-related cancers such as breast, pancreatic and oesophageal cancer, but not in non-alcohol-related cancer sites, GGT hazard ratios where increased but did not reach statistical significance.
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γ-Glutamyltransferase and Breast Cancer Risk Beyond Alcohol Consumption and Other Life Style Factors - A Pooled Cohort Analysis.
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They found a highly significant relationship between GGT and breast cancer risk with hazard ratios of >2 for quartiles three and four in comparison to quartile one in a multivariate model.
They found their hypothesis supported by the finding that a positive trend for an association between GGT and overall cancer incidence was observed in current drinkers, but not in ever drinkers.