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on Aug 22nd, 2015 and filed under One Glass Of Wine Could Increase Breast Cancer Risk, Says Study – iSchoolGuide
Risk of breast cancer was greatly increased with just one glass of alcohol per day.
(Photo : David Silverman | Getty Images News) A glass of alcohol increases risk of breast cancer
Researchers at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health in Boston have revealed that the risk of breast cancer was greatly increased with just one glass of alcohol per day.
Alcohol remains one of the main risk factors for various cancers like colon, esophagus, larynx and liver. Previous studies had specifically targeted the health risks of heavy drinking, but the effects of moderate drinking are uncertain until now.
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In the study, the authors quantified the risk of overall cancer across all levels of alcohol consumption among men and women. The goal was to assess the influence of drinking patterns on the overall risk of cancer.
Researchers focused on a group of 136,000 men and women who consumed alcohol in moderation, which is defined as up to one glass a day for women and two glasses for men.
A standard drink contains 15g of alcohol, equivalent to a 118ml of glass wine or 355 ml bottle of beer, The Guardian reports.
For men, the results revealed a link between alcohol and cancer among men who have smoked at some point in their lives. There was no link for the non-smokers.
On the other hand, women, even non-smokers, who drank the equivalent of a glass wine a day over a 30-day year period were 13 percent more likely at risk of cancers, especially breast cancer, than those who didn’t drink at all, according to NHS.uk.
The researchers studied data from 88,084 women and 47,881 men who participated in the Nurses’ Health Study (from 1980) and Health Professionals Follow-up Study (from 1986). Follow up was done until 2010, writes Timeslive.co.za.
“People with a family history of cancer, especially women with a family history of breast cancer, should consider reducing their alcohol intake to below recommended limits, or even abstaining altogether, given the now well established link between moderate drinking and alcohol related cancers,” said Dr. Jürgen Rehm, Director of Social and Epidemiological Research at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto, on the British Medical Journal, where the study was published.
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