Alcohol Linked To Cancer Rish In Women

Alcohol is believed to have beneficial effects if taken in moderation; but women may have to watch out. A study suggests that women who drink as little as one alcoholic beverage a day might have a significantly higher cancer risk than women who dont drink at all.
Researchers followed more than 1.2 million middle-ages women for an average of seven years. The women were participants in the ongiong Million Women Study in the United Kingdom.
It was found out that those who drank alcohol and consumed an average on one drink a day has a higher overall cancer risk, especially for cancers on the breast, liver, rectum, mouth, throat, an esophagus.
The link berween alcohol and breast cancer has been extensively researched and reported on, but the study is among the first to link low to moderate alcohol consumption to other cancers in women.
Cancer epidermiologist and study researcher, expert said that “there were no minimum levels of alcohol comsumption that could be considered to be without risk.”