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. 2002 Nov 18;87(11):1227-9.
doi: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6600638.

Cessation of smoking and drinking and the risk of laryngeal cancer

A Altieri  1 , C Bosetti, R Talamini, S Gallus, S Franceschi, F Levi, L Dal Maso, E Negri, C La Vecchia
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Cessation of smoking and drinking and the risk of laryngeal cancer

A Altieri et al. Br J Cancer. .

Abstract

A case-control study was conducted in Italy and Switzerland between 1992 and 2000 on 527 cases of laryngeal cancer and 1,297 hospital controls. The risk of laryngeal cancer steadily decreased from 3 years after stopping smoking. Some decline in risk was observed only 20 years or more after stopping drinking.

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