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Drinking Alcohol Increases Risk for Breast Cancer
August 31, 2010: 0 comment(s)
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Breast cancer is the most common cancer experienced by women. Each year over 200,000 females are diagnosed with the disease. New research shows that the amount of alcohol consumed could be a significant risk factor for the development of some forms of breast cancer.
70% of breast cancers are sensitive to the female hormones, estrogen and progesterone. Women who drink dramatically increase their risk for these types of hormone driven breast cancers because of the effects of alcohol.
Jasmine Lew, recipient of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute-National Institutes of Health Research Scholarship, National Cancer Institute, explains, “Our study at this point provides evidence for the notion that alcohol affects estrogen metabolism, which increases risk of hormone sensitive breast cancer.”
She is part of a team that reviewed a study involving 184,418 postmenopausal women for approximately seven years. 70% of the women drank alcohol and 5,461 had invasive breast cancer during the study period. The development of tumors sensitive to both estrogen and progesterone increased significantly when women drank. Lew found no significant risk increase for other types of breast cancers.
His findings revealed that if a woman drank less than one drink/day, her risk only increased by 7% over non-drinkers. 1-2 drinks/day raised the risk to 35% and over three drinks, to 51% compared to non-drinkers. So the more you drank, the greater the risk for the development of hormone sensitive breast cancers.
Lew concludes, “This suggests that a woman should evaluate consumption of alcohol along with other known breast cancer risk factors, such as use of hormone replacement therapy.”
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