Feb 25 2009
Alcohol consumption increases Cancer risk in Women
A bad news for those women who drinks! Drinking alcohol, even at a moderate rate, may get you deadly cancer, including cancer of breast, rectum, liver and digestive tract. A report published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute suggests that women who drinks at least one alcoholic drink a day are at greater risk of developing cancer compared to those who don’t drink at all.
The study was done to determine the impact of alcohol on cancer risk. During the study, the University of Oxford researchers followed 1,280,296 middle-aged women in the United Kingdom for an average of seven years. Most of the participants in the study who drank alcohol, consumed on average one drink per day. Only a few of them drank three or more drink per day. After following them for more than 7 years, the researchers found that 68,775 women developed some sort of cancer.
The researchers found that alcohol was responsible for 13% of those cancer cases. In fact they found that the risk of cancer, specially cancer of the breast, rectum, and liver, increased with increasing alcohol consumption in those women. And each additional drink consumed per day increased the chances of breast cancer among women up to age 75.
Even though there is a cardiovascular benefit associated with moderate alcohol consumption, the excess risk of cancer may outweight that benefit, the researchers added in their report. So, what you think about it? In my view the findings of this study must not be taken lightly, as it’s results were derived from a large population. If you drink one glass of wine with dinner every night, think once again!
Via: Journal of The National Cancer Institute (http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org)
But what about drinking red wine. Study after study has shown that 6oz a day of that has definite health benefits