A new study has found that drinking just two standard alcoholic drinks a day significantly increases the risks of developing breast, bowel, throat and mouth cancer.
[What about the rest of the body? Liver? Kidney?, Brain? etc??? M,M,M, My Cirrhosis! Not to mention death by stupidity see links below; i.e. Balmain hotels fill as young mourn pub mates]
The New South Wales Government is releasing the Cancer Institute report, which draws together the results of an international audit of recent cancer research.
The report found that consuming two alcoholic drinks a day increases a person's risk of mouth cancer by 75 per cent, and breast cancer by 22 per cent.
The Assistant Health Minister Verity Firth says the risks of excessive drinking are well known, but the report shows even moderate drinking can be dangerous.
"What this report shows us is that it really only has to be two standard drinks a day before you increase your chances of developing breast cancer by up to 22 per cent," she said.
"So it really is seen as linking what was previously seen as quite moderate levels of alcohol intake to severely increasing risks of cancer."
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