Journal article
Lifetime alcohol intake and pancreatic cancer incidence and survival: findings from the Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study
Harindra Jayasekara, Dallas R English, Allison M Hodge, Robin Room, John L Hopper, Roger L Milne, Graham G Giles, Robert J MacInnis
CANCER CAUSES & CONTROL | SPRINGER | Published : 2019
Abstract
PURPOSE: Pancreatic cancer has one of the worst prognoses with 5-year survival below 10%. There is some evidence that alcohol consumption might increase the risk of pancreatic cancer. We examined associations of pre-diagnostic alcohol intake with (i) incidence of pancreatic cancer, and (ii) overall survival following pancreatic cancer. METHODS: Usual alcohol intake was estimated at recruitment in 1990-1994 for 38,472 participants in the Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study using recalled frequency and quantity of beverage-specific intake for 10-year periods from age 20. Pancreatic cancer incidence (C25 according to International Classification of Diseases for Oncology) and vital status were ..
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Funding Acknowledgements
We thank the original investigators and the diligent team, who recruited the participants and who continue working on follow-up, for their contribution. We also express our gratitude to the many thousands of Melbourne residents who continue to participate in the study. MCCS cohort recruitment was funded by VicHealth and Cancer Council Victoria. The MCCS was further supported by Australian National Health and Medical Research Council Grants 209057, 251553, and 504711 and by infrastructure provided by Cancer Council Victoria. JLH is a NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow. RR's position was funded by the Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education. The funding sources played no role in the study design, in the collection, analysis and interpretation of data, in the writing of the report, and in the decision to submit the article for publication.