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Bladder Cancer
Research from C. Pelucchi and co-authors reveals new findings on bladder cancer
January 13th, 2009
According to recent research from Milan, Italy, "Epidemiological studies on coffee, alcohol and bladder cancer risk published up to 2007 were reviewed. Coffee drinkers have a moderately higher relative risk of bladder cancer compared to non-drinkers." "The association may partly be due to residual confounding by smoking or dietary factors, but the interpretation remains open to discussion, although the absence of dose and duration-risk relations weighs against the presence of a causal association. Most studies of alcohol and bladder cancer found no association, with some studies finding a direct and other an inverse one. This again may be due to differential confounding...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2009-01-13)
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