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The National Institutes of Health, [65] the National Cancer Institute, [66] Cancer Research, [67] the American Cancer Society, [68] the Mayo Clinic, [69] and the Colorectal Cancer Coalition, [70] American Society of Clinical Oncology [71] and the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center [72] list alcohol as a risk factor.
More than 200 injuries and disease conditions can be caused by alcohol misuse. [82] It is a causative agent influencing maternal health and development, noncommunicable diseases (including cancer and cardiovascular diseases), injuries, violence, mental health, and infectious diseases such as tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS. [83]
A growing body of evidence has shown links between cancer and drinking alcohol. In a warning Friday, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy said cancer risk increases with the number of drinks, but ...
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 ...
People who drink unhealthy amounts of alcohol are more likely to have high blood pressure, heart disease, liver disease, nerve damage, infections including pneumonia and even certain cancers like ...
Those who approach alcoholism as a medical condition or disease recommend differing treatments from, for instance, those who approach the condition as one of social choice. Most treatments focus on helping people discontinue their alcohol intake, followed up with life training and/or social support to help them resist a return to alcohol use.
With the U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy calling for cancer-warning labels on alcoholic beverages after outlining a direct link between alcohol consumption and increased cancer risk, will ...
The mechanisms of increased breast cancer risk by alcohol are not clear, and may be: Increased estrogen and androgen levels [8] Enhanced mammary gland susceptibility to carcinogenics [8] Increased mammary DNA damage [8] Greater metastatic potential of breast cancer cells [8] Their magnitude likely depends on the amount of alcohol consumed. [8]