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A report from the U.S. surgeon general suggested that labels on alcoholic drinks should warn about cancer risk. Doctors expressed their agreement. For people wondering about the long-term damage ...
The extent to which drinking alcohol may lower cancer risk of some cancers isn't fully understood and may be indirect, the institute said. A pinot noir is poured into a wine glass on Tuesday, Nov ...
A 2015 report in the British Journal of Cancer, which looked at over 480,000 cancer cases, found alcohol is a risk factor in several cancers, including oral cancer, liver cancer, and breast cancer ...
A Norwegian study found that, "No statistically significant associations between various degrees of exposure to alcohol and risk of gastric cancer was revealed, but combined high use of cigarettes (>20/day) and alcohol (>5 occasions/14 days) increased the risk of noncardia gastric cancer nearly 5-fold (HR = 4.90 [95% CI = 1.90–12.62 ...
All types of alcoholic beverages, including beer, wine, or liquor, cause breast cancer. Drinking alcoholic beverages increases the risk of breast cancer, even among very light drinkers (women drinking less than half of one alcoholic drink per day). [6] The risk is highest among heavy drinkers. [9]
Further, the report states that alcohol consumption leads to 100,000 cancer cases and 20,000 cancer-related deaths in the U.S. each year, making it the third leading preventable cause of cancer ...
Alcohol (also known as ethanol) has a number of effects on health. Short-term effects of alcohol consumption include intoxication and dehydration. Long-term effects of alcohol include changes in the metabolism of the liver and brain, with increased risk of several types of cancer and alcohol use disorder. [1]
In an advisory published Friday, the surgeon general, Dr. Vivek Murthy, said that alcohol was a leading cause of cancer but that less than half of Americans in a 2019 survey recognized it as a ...