Alcohol: Already Small Quantities Increase the Breast Cancer Risk
May 14th 2009 -
A glass wine each evening is sufficient, in order to increase the cancer risk – above all for breast cancer – with women. The more one drinks, all the same whether liquor, wine or beer, is the higher the risk.
The team around Naomi everything of the University OF Oxford estimates that approximately eleven per cent of the diagnosed cases of cancer of the breast are to be led back on the consumption of alcohol of the women. The study concentrated on women, who consumed small up to middle quantities alcohol. This quantity was defined with at the most three alcoholic beverages daily or less. During the seven years a quarter of the participating 1.3 million women indicated current study to drink no alcohol.
Of the women, took nearly all little than 21 drinks drank the alcohol in the week to itself. It was average a quantity of ten gram alcohol per day. That is somewhat more than in a small beer, 125 milliliters wine or a spirit is contained.
Got sick to nearly 13 per cent of the Mrs. middle age with chest, liver, rectum, mouth or throat cancer. With regular consumption of alcohol a sample developed. An alcoholic beverage increased the risk with women until 75 years with all kinds of cancer around six per cent. The percentages for the individual forms were different. An alcoholic beverage on the day increased the cancer of the breast risk around twelve per cent, with mast intestine cancer was it ten per cent, with esophagus cancer 22 per cent, with mouth cancer 29 per cent and with throat cancer 44 per cent. On the population put down that means 15 additional illnesses per 1.000 woman.
Note: Also different studies already showed that regular consumption of alcohol can increase the breast cancer risk. However to certain ingredients in beer and wine – the so-called Phenol-cancer-restraining and anti-oxidative effects one repeats.
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