Alcohol
18 times greater than non-drinkers. Research indicates that alcohol may play an indirect
role in this disease by increasing estrogen levels in premenopausal women, whinh in turn
may promote breast cancer. Thus, for younger women to lessen their risk of breast
cancer, dont drink, or at least limit yourself to no more than one a day.
SKIN CANCER
Reserchers say that women who average only two drinks a day, four days a week,
are 2 1/2 times more likelt to develop melanomia than women who dont drink. Experts
recommend that women limit themselves to one drink a day, and men two drinks a day.
OTHER CANCERS
Some studies have found a link between alcohol use and cancers of the:
-colon
-stomach
-pancreas
-lungs.
Although theres no evidence that alcohol itelf is a caracinogen, it has been associated
with suppression of the human immune system