Saturday, July 5, 2008

Booze and Your Body - Part 2

Cancer. There seems to be a linear relationship between the amount of alcohol a woman drinks and her risk of breast cancer. In other words, the more you drink, the greater your risk. In an analysis of multiple studies, women who drank 3/4 to one drink per day increased their risk of breast cancer by 9 percent compared with nondrinkers. Women who drank two to five drinks increased their risk by 41 percent. Alcohol use is also strongly associated with liver cancer and cancers of the mouth, esophagus, larynx, and pharynx.

3 comments:

Taylor said...

Tell Grandma that I miss her!!! Happy late 4th of July!

Dr. Mike said...

Taylor,
OK, I will. How was your 4th? We had fun, we can call you this weekend.
Mike

Taylor said...

We had fun on the 4th too!!! But I had to work at my job... Pirates Cove and that was very busy!!! Other than that we did fireworks! :)