Moderate drinkers have an increased risk of breast cancer

dlb823

I know, no one wants to hear this, and it looks like it's a retrospective study (analyzing past studies).  But probably still worth a read...

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-09-breast-cance...

wallycat

Beating the proverbial dead horse, no?

Even if alcohol contributes to breast cancer, there are studies showing it is specific genotype groups...which means your genes affect what you eat and drink.  No surprise.

As many of us have posted here...we know alcoholics who never developed BC and abstainers who did.

Until they can easily run a gene test to tell someone what to stay away from, I guess it is a personal risk issue and who wants to avoid what to gain a possible what-if.

MusicLover

They state, "The study shows that consuming an average of up to two drinks a day is associated with an 8.5 per cent increase in the risk, compared to abstaining from alcohol." I consider two drinks of alcohol everyday to be a lot, they consider this low consumption. Low consumption to me is two drinks a week or even a month. Funny how everyone has a different view on what is low or moderate consumption. 

wallycat

I think "they" interpret one 5 oz glass of wine as "low" and since these are self reported (typically), I think I am the only one I know who actually measured out 5 oz. of water in the wine glass I plan to use regularly to know where the cut off is.  Most people just pour so even if they only have one literal glass, the oz may be more or less than what is considered low.  I do agree...low is not a definitive term for most people.  Maybe this just proves how unscientific some of these studies are

new_direction

this is not Scientific at all but my grandmother says people were drinking even more 100 years ago - she does not believe alcohol causes cancer. Maybe it's alcohol combined with environmental Chemicals like certain genes did not cause cancer 100 years ago but are linked today to higher incidence of cancer.