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2. Can alcohol cause cancer? Here's what the science says

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   Current federal guidelines recommend that if people want to drink alcohol, women should drink no more than one drink per day and men no more than two. "Alcohol is a well-established, preventable ...

3. 7 major questions about alcohol and cancer: What doctors ...

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   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 ...

4. Alcohol and cancer - Wikipedia

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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.

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

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   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 alcohol breaks down in the body ...

6. Alcohol and health - Wikipedia

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   Additionally, two large U.S.-based studies on health professionals found no increased cancer risk from light to moderate alcohol consumption in men who do not smoke. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] Some observational studies suggest a potential association between alcohol consumption and a decreased risk of certain cancers, such as kidney cancer, thyroid cancer ...

7. Long-term effects of alcohol - Wikipedia

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   The level of ethanol consumption that minimizes the risk of disease, injury, and death is subject to some controversy. [16] Several studies have found a J-shaped relationship between alcohol consumption and health, [17] [18] [2] [19] meaning that risk is minimized at a certain (non-zero) consumption level, and drinking below or above this level increases risk, with the risk level of drinking a ...

8. The US surgeon general says alcohol causes cancer — and needs ...

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   In an advisory published Friday, the surgeon general, Dr. Vivek Murthy, said that alcohol was a leading cause of cancer but that less than half of Americans in a 2019 survey recognized it as a ...

9. Don't worry. There is a common sense response to the ... - AOL

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   Further, the report states that alcohol consumption leads to 100,000 cancer cases and 20,000 cancer-related deaths in the U.S. each year, making it the third leading preventable cause of cancer ...