Drinking joins smoking as cancer risk

THE DANGERS OF ALCOHOL AND CIGARETTE SMOKE

Its pretty interesting to note that most people who are in the business of providing care to the ailing population are the first one who violates what they preach. =( I just got this information from and have thought of our family doctor who is a REAL cigarette addict. I must remind you people that smoking and drinking is something worst which you can do to your body. (I drink a lot hehe) but then I don't smoke lest allergies will start erupting and manifesting on my already devastated skin! =) Read on the interesting news from CNN below. Enjoy!

Julius

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LONDON, England (Reuters) -- Along with smoking and chronic infections, alcohol consumption is an important cause of several types of cancer, researchers said on Monday.

Excessive drinking raises the risk of cancer of the mouth, larynx, oesophagus, liver, colon and breast. It may also be linked with cancer of the pancreas and lung.

"Alcohol is underestimated as a cause of cancer in many parts of the world," said Dr Paolo Boffetta of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in Lyon, France.

"A sizeable proportion of cancer today is due to alcohol intake and this is increasing in many regions, particularly in east Asia and eastern Europe," he added in an interview.

Boffetta and Mia Hashibe, who reviewed research into the link between alcohol and cancer, found the more alcohol consumed, the higher the risk of developing cancer.

But they advised people to drink moderately, rather than give up alcohol completely, because of its protective benefits against cardiovascular disease.

"Total avoidance of alcohol, although optimum for cancer control, cannot be recommended in terms of broad perspective of public health, in particular in countries with high incidence of cardiovascular disease," Boffetta said in a report in The Lancet Oncology journal.

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