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Alcohol Blamed for Rise in Breast Cancer

April 30, 2008: 12:00 AM EST
Increased alcohol consumption is being blamed for rising rates of breast cancer in women in London. A study by St George's hospital in Tooting, London, shows that 4,198 women were diagnosed with the cancer in London in 2005, compared with 3,968 a decade earlier. Professor Kefah Mokbel, who carried out the study, says that use of alcohol jumped by 40 percent in the same period. At the same time, use of hormone replacement therapy linked to breast cancer dropped and breast cancer screening “reached saturation point”. In a separate study, the US National Cancer Institute found that women who had one alcoholic drink each day had a 7 percent greater chance of developing the most common breast cancer than non-drinkers. Women who consumed one to two drinks a day had a 32 percent greater chance.
Deena Beasley, "Big U.S. study links breast cancer to drinking", Reuters, April 30, 2008, © Thomson Reuters
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