Light or moderate drinking is linked to alcohol related cancers, including breast cancer
A partir des données de deux cohortes "Nurses’ Health Study" et "Health Professionals Follow-up Study" incluant respectivement 88 084 femmes et 47 881 hommes, cette étude évalue l'association entre une consommation d'alcool, légère ou modérée, et le risque de cancer
Another good reason to think before you drink
Using data from two large cohort studies in the United States, Cao and colleagues examine the question of whether light to moderate drinking is associated with an increased risk of cancer. This question is important for a variety of reasons related to public health and alcohol policy. Cancer is one of the major causes of death globally, and cancer risks are frequently cited in arguments about formulating thresholds for low risk drinking guidelines. For instance, when Canadian guidelines were reformulated recently in 2011, in part based on the argument that consumers would not accept strict guidelines, cancer risk at low doses of alcohol use was introduced into the public health debate...
British Medical Journal , éditorial, 2014