[Relation between mortality in cancer of the pancreas and food and tobacco consumption in France].

The relationship is given between French pancreatic cancer mortality rates form 1968 to 1976, and some nutritional variables and tobacco. Positive correlations were found between the death rate from pancreatic cancer and sugar, egg and cereal consumption; however, a negative correlation was found with tobacco consumption. A stepwise multiple regression procedure showed an association between the mortality rate from cancer of the pancreas and meat and oil consumption when age had been taken into account.