Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health
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Patterns of alcohol consumption over time and their relationship to mortality and breast cancer risk

Approved: 2017

Collaborators:

  • Ms Yi Yang
  • AProf Allison Hodge
  • Prof Dallas English
  • Dr Brigid Lynch
  • Dr Pierre-Antoine Dugue
  • Dr Harindra Jayasekara

Synopsis

Alcohol consumption is an important modifable risk factor of mortality and breast cancer risk. How alcohol consumption over time affects mortality and risk of breast cancer remains unclear. Our aims are to study the risk of death and incidence of breast cancer in relation to changes in pattern of consumption over time. This will offer a better understanding of how different long?term drinking prfiles from mid?life onwards are related to subsequent risk of mortality and breast cancer risk.