Study: Even Small Amounts of Alcohol Significantly Increase Cancer Risk
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(Newser) – You may not consider yourself a heavy drinker, but even a relatively small amount of alcohol seems to raise the risk of death from cancer, a study finds. Researchers found that having a drink and a half or less per day was associated with 7,000 of the 19,500 annual booze-linked cancer deaths, NBC News reports.
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The US sees some 577,000 cancer deaths each year, which means 3.5% of those are related to alcohol, the study notes. To put the figure in perspective, 14,000 people died from ovarian cancer in 2009; 9,000 died from melanoma that same year.
But the alcohol connection isn’t a widely publicized one; indeed, this study is the first major review of the subject in three decades. Some 15% of breast cancer deaths were tied to alcohol; among men, mouth, throat and esophageal cancers were commonly tied to booze, CBC reports. In short, ‘there is no safe threshold for alcohol and cancer risk,” the researchers say. It’s still not clear how alcohol boosts cancer, but previous studies have found it ups women’s estrogen and helps tobacco chemicals enter the digestive tract, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
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Personally, I was looking for peer-reviewed studies not “The study was funded by the U.S. National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.”
There did seem to be a couple nationally recognized groups involved but none that I would consider dispassionate with no funding to protect or agenda axes to grind. True, I might have missed some connection, but I did click all three links provided. They were news sources and provided no real links of their own.
I think I can let this one slide and enjoy my 187 ml of red wine each evening and a scotch on the weekends.
Guaranteed this study won’t slow me down James.
If I slowed down very much, I’d have to start putting drinks back. That’s not a pretty picture is it? I guess I do with beer. We don’t seem to retain it long. Maybe we’re just renting it? 🙂
Remember when eggs, mayonnaise, and other stuff could give you cancer? I do agree that cigarettes can kill you. I don’t want to think that drinking small amounts of booze can give you cancer.
Damn Mike we are in trouble.
LOL LOL. Remember I DID have breast cancer….ya think that ….? Nah. Surely not Bill 🙂
More medical contradictions. Drinking a small amount of alcohol daily, especially red wine, is also considered to lower the risk of heart attacks.
If you believed everything you hear about what is dangerous, you would have to become a breath-airian and die of starvation.