Publication at Faculty of Science |
2021
Abstract
A causal relationship between alcohol consumption and several types of cancer has been shown by many studies. Large volumes of alcohol consumption and high cancer mortality among the Czech population has been observed, the main aim of this study was to estimate the share of cancer deaths attributable to alcohol consumption among the Czech population.
In 2018, 3.7% of total cancer deaths (27 699) were attributable to alcohol consumption (5.1% in males and 2.1% in females) which represented 1 038 deaths (774 in males and 264 in females).