Thursday 3 September 2015

Does Alcohol Increase Cancer Risk?

We all know that smoking causes cancer. Smoking or rather tobacco related products are responsible for varied cancers like oral, pharyngeal, lung, kidney, bladder, cervical to name a few.

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But what about Alcohol? Does Alcohol cause increase?

Alcohol consumption leads to higher risk of many cancers like breast, oesophagus, oral, pharyngeal, liver, colon and rectum!

If you are wondering that some alcohols are better over others, you are mistaken. All forms of alcohol from wine, beer, whiskey to rum, all increase risk of cancer. However the risk increases with the amount of alcohol consumed. Women who had two to three drinks a day had a 20 percent higher risk of breast cancer compared to women who didn’t drink at all.

While we would like to recommend that you should not drink at all, the American Cancer Society recommends no more than two drinks  a day for men and one drink a day for men.

If you want to read more

1. The Burden Of Cancer Attributable to Alcohol

2. American Cancer Society Recommendation 

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