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Alcohol was determined to increase the risk of developing breast cancer, liver cancer, colorectal cancer, esophageal cancers, pharyngeal cancer, laryngeal cancer, and oral cancer. In 2009, the group determined that acetaldehyde which is a metabolite of ethanol is also carcinogenic to humans.
"Alcohol is a well-established, preventable cause of cancer responsible for about 100,000 cases of cancer and 20,000 cancer deaths annually in the United States,” Murthy said in a statement ...
How does drinking compare to other factors that increase cancer risk? Alcohol is the third leading preventable cause of cancer in the U.S., behind tobacco and obesity, according to the surgeon ...
The alcohol industry generally does acknowledge the link between excessive drinking and cancer. But it asserts a healthy lifestyle doesn't have to mean cutting out drinking — completely. Scripps ...
Alcohol also alters hormone levels in our body, such as estrogen, which likely explains alcohol’s relationship with increased breast cancer risk. Not only does alcohol directly damage our DNA ...
Modern alcohol advertising promotes alcoholic beverages heavily "as though it was not a toxic substance". [4] The alcohol industry has tried to actively mislead the public about the risk of cancer due to alcohol consumption, [10] in addition to campaigning to remove laws that require alcoholic beverages to have cancer warning labels. [11]
The country's top doctor wants a new warning added to alcohol that would alert drinkers about links to cancer, but don't expect cigarette-style warning labels any time soon. U.S. Surgeon General ...
How alcohol causes cancer. There are four ways alcohol causes cancer, Murthy said, citing a 2021 Nutrients study. The first two are widely accepted, he wrote. Most physicians agree that when ...