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Alcohol’s Lies (and Breast Cancer)

October 28, 2024

What: Women’s Health has a deep dive on drinking, and examines why people reacted far more swiftly to the news that smoking causes cancer than they have for alcohol—especially breast cancer.

Key line: “And Morris says that alcohol’s correlation with increased breast cancer risk is far more significant than with other types of cancer risks: Over two decades ago, a meta-analysis found that women who consumed two or three alcoholic drinks per day had a 20 percent higher lifetime risk for breast cancer than those who didn’t—and alcohol is now believed to be responsible for around 100,000 breast cancer cases worldwide each year.”

Source: Women’s Health // https://www.womenshealthmag.com/health/a62598179/lies-about-alcohol/

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