Does alcohol cause pancreatic cancer?

A null or protective association for alcohol and pancreatic cancer among women has been noted in most, [6, 9, 10, 14, 17, 24, 27, 28, 36, 38, 39, 41, 42, 55, 56, 59, 61, 62], but not all [16, 20, 34, 37] earlier studies. In our study, the proportion of women who reported heavy and/or binge drinking was much lower than for men. read more

Alcohol and Pancreatic Cancer. The study, which included more than 1.2 million Americans who were followed for 24 years, found that overall those who reported drinking three or more liquor drinks daily saw their risk of dying of pancreatic cancer go up by about one-third compared to nondrinkers. read more

It can lead to an increased risk of pancreatic cancer and carcinoma of the ampulla of Vater. Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors and cancers can also be caused by genetic syndromes, such as: Neurofibromatosis, type 1, which is caused by mutations in the NF1 gene. read more