Alcohol consumption caused more than 700,000
new cancer cases and around 366,000 cancer
deaths in 2012, mainly in rich countries,
according to data reported Wednesday to the
World Cancer Congress in Paris.
Comparing the cancer risk of people who drink,
to that of people who do not, researchers
calculated that alcohol was responsible for an
estimated five percent of all new cancer cases,
and 4.5 percent of deaths per year.
“A large part of the population is unaware that
cancer can be caused by alcohol,” study co-
author Kevin Shield of the International Agency
for Research on Cancer (IARC), told AFP of the
preliminary report, not yet published.
Alcohol was most strongly linked to new breast
cancer diagnoses — more than one in four of all
alcohol-attributable cancer cases, the
researchers found, followed by colorectal cancer at 23 percent.
For breast cancer, particularly, it was clear that
“the risk increases with the dose” of alcohol, said Shield.
Measuring alcohol’s contribution to cancer
deaths, the researchers found it was most
strongly linked to oesophagus cancer fatalities,
followed by colorectal cancer.
The IARC, the cancer agency of the World Health Organization (WHO), lists alcohol as a “group 1 carcinogen”, which means it is considered cancer-causing, though Shield said the mechanism was “not exactly known”.
Globally, the burden was highest in north
America, Australia and Europe, particularly
eastern Europe, but this was slowly changing as
people in developing nations start imbibing
more, the researchers said.
www.vanguardngr.com/2016/11/alcohol-causes-cancer/
Lalasticlala Mynd44 let the alcoholics in the house be aware.

We always advise people to reduce their intake of alcohol .

Most of them said that they can not do without it, totally.

Flexherbal:
We always advise people to reduce their intake of alcohol .

Most of then said that they can not do without it, totally.

Abstinence is best.

NOETHNICITY:
Abstinence is best.

You are right, sir