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.