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A new study has revealed that drinking alcohol is linked to six types of cancer, more than 5% of all cancer cases..
The 2024 Cancer Progress Report by the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) highlighted that alcohol is the third risk factor for cancer after obesity and cigarette smoking...
This includes diets rich in highly processed foods, alcohol, tobacco, sedentary lifestyle, obesity, environmental carcinogens, and an unfavourable microbiome, that are playing a role in the increased incidence of early-onset cancers...
Dr Adam Scioli, an addiction psychiatrist from Caron Treatment Centers, explained that although there have been reports for years about how much alcohol could be beneficial for health, "we know now that alcohol ingestion is one of the modifiable risk factors for cancer."..
"Research indicates that those who reduce alcohol consumption or stop drinking altogether can decrease their risk of developing alcohol-related cancers by 8% and can reduce their risk of all cancer by 4% compared to those who sustain or increase their consumption of alcohol," the report stated...
