A prospective cohort study on consumption of alcoholic beverages in relation to prostate cancer incidence (The Netherlands).

Department of Epidemiology, Maastricht University, The Netherlands. Agnes.Schuurman@hag.unimaas.nl OBJECTIVES: To examine alcohol consumption in relation to prostate cancer incidence in the Netherlands Cohort Study. METHODS: At baseline in 1986, 58,279 men aged 55-69 years completed a self-administered questionnaire on diet, consumption of alcoholic beverages and other risk factors for cancer. For data processing and analyses the case-cohort approach was used. After 6.3 years of follow-up, 680 incident primary prostate cancer cases were available for analysis. RESULTS: In multivariate analyses... Mehr ...