{"id":12821,"date":"2011-10-12T07:58:10","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T21:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=12821"},"modified":"2021-04-15T10:19:33","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T00:19:33","slug":"alcohol-linked-to-increased-cancer-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2011\/10\/12\/alcohol-linked-to-increased-cancer-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning on Alcohol, Cancer Link in Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new US study has found that frequent alcohol consumption increases women&#8217;s risk of cancer mortality by almost one third.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h6>&#8230; high frequency drinking increased the risk of cancer in women, but the increased risk in men was linked to quantity<\/h6>\n<p>As reported in\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.medicalobserver.com.au\/news\/drinking-frequency-linked-to-cancer-risk?hash=49269621870bce74e7fd41accefb6c2e-1c67b4c738c0115da9c4f3015e9d9f5e&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=News_focus_10-10-2011&amp;utm_content=News_focus_10-10-2011+CID_0a03a775215d76e3ec07b454a4e18119&amp;utm_source=Email+marketing+software&amp;utm_term=Drinking+frequency+linked+to+cancer+risk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Medical Observer<\/a>, the\u00a0study\u00a0found that high frequency drinking increased the risk of cancer in women, but\u00a0the increased risk in men was\u00a0linked to quantity, rather than frequency.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, frequent consumption of alcohol increased the risk of breast cancer in women by 44%.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, men who drank more than three drinks on &#8216;drinking days&#8217; raised their risk of cancer by 24%, and men who drank more than three days a week increased their risk of prostate cancer by 55%.<\/p>\n<p>Director of addiction medicine at St Vincent&#8217;s Hospital, Melbourne, Professor <strong>Jon Currie<\/strong>, said: &#8220;GPs don&#8217;t have to feel they are being moralistic to patients when talking about cutting down their alcohol consumption; it&#8217;s clearly now evidence based.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The study pooled data from more than 320,000 men and women in the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new US study has found that frequent alcohol consumption increases women&#8217;s risk of cancer mortality by almost one third.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}