Alcohol causes a significant burden of cancer, shows major European study with CAMH collaborators

For Immediate Release - April 8, 2011 (Toronto) - CAMH researchers contributed to a large European study showing that alcohol use above daily recommended limits leads to several types of cancers.

About one in 10 cancers (10%) in men and one in 33 cancers (3%) in women in Western Europe is caused by former and current alcohol consumption, according to the study published today by the British Medical Journal.

CAMH researchers Jürgen Rehm, Tara Kehoe and Gerrit Gmel joined a large number of researchers in a study led by Madlen Schütze at the German Institute of Human Nutrition in Potsdam Rehbruecke, who did the main research analyses during an internship at CAMH. The study included 363,988 adults in eight countries who had been tracked since the mid-1990s.

 

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The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) is Canada's largest mental health and addiction teaching hospital, as well as one of the world's leading research centres in the area of addiction and mental health. CAMH combines clinical care, research, education, policy development and health promotion to help transform the lives of people affected by mental health and addiction issues.

CAMH is fully affiliated with the University of Toronto, and is a Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization Collaborating Centre.

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