Alcohol can Increases Risk for Cancer in Women

Few years back Scientists were claiming that, wine will reduce your HDL and thereby reducing the rate of Cardiovascular accidents. Now here is the news which might hurt a bit Alcohol lovers specailly women..

Medscape Medical News has posted, "Even low to moderate alcohol consumption significantly increases the risk for cancer, both overall and at specific sites, in women, according to results from the Million Women Study conducted in the United Kingdom.

The women in the study were middle-aged (median age, 55 years), and 75% said they drank alcohol, consuming — on average — 1 drink per day (100-g alcohol). Very few drank more than 3 or more drinks per day, and there was no difference between wine or other drinks, such as spirits, although most women drank wine.

Each drink significantly increased the risk for cancer, the researchers found.

For such women in developed countries, the researchers estimated a background incidence of 118 cancers diagnosed per 1000 women up to the age of 75 years.

Consuming 1 drink per day increased this to an extra 15 cancers per 1000 women, and 2 drinks a day increased it to an extra 30 cancers per 1000 women, they report. Most were breast cancers, but the risk for cancer was also increased for the liver and rectum, and for the mouth and throat in women who also smoked.

Cancers at these sites have been linked to alcohol in the past, but this study shows that even low to moderate consumption significantly increases the risk, lead author Naomi Allen, DPhil, from Oxford University, in the United Kingdom, told Medscape Oncology."

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