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. Therefore, the lack of an observed association may be attributable to sample size constraints. Further research is necessary to understand differences in pancreatic cancer risk between men and women.
