The real risks of drinking alcohol for canccer?
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The real risks of drinking alcohol for canccer?
As I recently had a family member diagnosed with liver cancer, I was looking into what might be the causes. She didn’t drink heavily over her life, but maybe a bit more after retirement in her old age.
So I started going down a rabbithole of research to see what are the risks of drinking alcohol related to cancer. Everyone has heard that no amount of alcohol is safe. But I discovered something interesting that changed my perception that any amount of alcohol is very likely to give you cancer.
The jist is that the research that looks at non-drinkers vs light/moderate drinkers (1-2 drinks/day) show that women in the non drinker group had a 17% chance for these cancers – and thats not alcohol related. The 1drink per day was at 19%, which is really only a 2% increase. I would have expected from the headlines that the individual risk was much higher. Here is the article I read:
What are your thoughts? I know that alcohol is generally bad, but it doesn’t seem to be a massive driver of alcohol-related cancers as the headlines make it out to be.
caveatscientia.com
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