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  2. Alcohol and cancer - Wikipedia

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    Our data suggest, however, that heavy alcohol drinking may be related to pancreatic cancer risk." [129] "Relative risks of pancreatic cancer increased with the amount of alcohol consumed (Ptrend = 0.11) after adjustment for age, smoking status, and pack-years of smoking." [143] "Alcoholics had only a modest 40% excess risk of pancreatic cancer

  3. Can alcohol cause cancer? Here's what the science says

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    "Alcohol is a well-established, preventable cause of cancer responsible for about 100,000 cases of cancer and 20,000 cancer deaths annually in the United States,” Murthy said in a statement ...

  4. Pancreatic cancer - Wikipedia

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    Drinking alcohol excessively is a major cause of chronic pancreatitis, which in turn predisposes to pancreatic cancer, but considerable research has failed to firmly establish alcohol consumption as a direct risk factor for pancreatic cancer.

  5. Long-term effects of alcohol - Wikipedia

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    The level of ethanol consumption that minimizes the risk of disease, injury, and death is subject to some controversy. [16] Several studies have found a J-shaped relationship between alcohol consumption and health, [17] [18] [2] [19] meaning that risk is minimized at a certain (non-zero) consumption level, and drinking below or above this level increases risk, with the risk level of drinking a ...

  6. Alcohol plays key role in cancer risk, new expert report warns

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    Out of all the modifiable risk factors associated with cancer, the report highlighted excessive alcohol use as one with a strong impact: 5.4% of all cancer cases diagnosed in the U.S. in 2019 were ...

  7. Cancer death rates decline yet new diagnoses spike for some ...

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    The ACS report also warns about "lagging progress" against pancreatic cancer, the third-leading cause of cancer death in the U.S. Rates of diagnoses and deaths from the disease type are on the rise.

  8. Alcohol and health - Wikipedia

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    Regular heavy drinking and heavy episodic drinking (also called binge drinking), entailing four or more standard alcoholic drinks (a pint of beer or 50 ml drink of a spirit such as whisky corresponds to about two units of alcohol) on any one occasion, pose the greatest risk for harm, but lesser amounts can cause problems as well. [55]

  9. Gastrointestinal cancer - Wikipedia

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    Pancreatic cancer is the fifth most-common cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States, [8] and the seventh most-common in Europe. [9] In 2008, globally there were 280,000 new cases of pancreatic cancer reported and 265,000 deaths. [10] These cancers are classified as endocrine or nonendocrine tumors. The most common is ductal ...