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2. Nearly half of cancer cases in adults are caused by ... - AOL

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   Drinking alcohol accounted for more than 5% of cancer cases in men and women. ... Islami says one way to bring down the number of alcohol-related cancers is by increasing awareness of alcohol's ...

3. Alcohol Contributes To 100K Cancer Cases Every Year—Here's ...

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   At the beginning of 2025, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy called for adding warning labels on all alcoholic beverages, similar to those on tobacco products. Murthy stated that alcohol ...

4. Alcohol Has Been Linked to 7 Types of Cancer, According to ...

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   This announcement, released on January 3, offers some startling statistics: alcohol is the third leading preventable cause of cancer in the U.S., responsible for approximately 100,000 new cancer ...

5. Alcohol and cancer - Wikipedia

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   A woman drinking an average of two units of alcohol per day has an 8% higher risk of developing breast cancer than a woman who drinks an average of one unit of alcohol per day. [60] A study concluded that for every additional drink regularly consumed per day, the incidence of breast cancer increases by 11 per 1000. [ 47 ]

6. Alcohol and health - Wikipedia

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   Alcohol (also known as ethanol) has a number of effects on health. Short-term effects of alcohol consumption include intoxication and dehydration. Long-term effects of alcohol include changes in the metabolism of the liver and brain, with increased risk of several types of cancer and alcohol use disorder. [1]

7. National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism - Wikipedia

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   The mission of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism is to generate and disseminate fundamental knowledge about the effects of alcohol on health and well-being, and apply that knowledge to improve diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of alcohol-related problems, including alcohol use disorder, across the lifespan. [4]

8. Alcohol plays key role in cancer risk, new expert report warns

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   Out of all the modifiable risk factors associated with cancer, the report highlighted excessive alcohol use as one with a strong impact: 5.4% of all cancer cases diagnosed in the U.S. in 2019 were ...

9. The new science on alcohol and cancer: 4 studies that found a ...

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   Here's the data that backs up Murthy's advisory, with some caveats:. How alcohol causes cancer. There are four ways alcohol causes cancer, Murthy said, citing a 2021 Nutrients study.. The first ...