Alcohol Drinking Without Meals Is Associated With Risk of Gastrointestinal Cancers, Including Early-Onset Cases

Affiliations

• ¹ Division of Public Health Sciences, Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri.
• ² Division of Public Health Sciences, Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri; School of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri.
• ³ Department of Biology, The David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
• ⁴ Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois; Rush Center for Integrated Microbiome and Chronobiology Research, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois.
• ⁵ Division of Public Health Sciences, Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri; Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri; Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri. Electronic address: yin.cao@wustl.edu.