According to a new study by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, if a female averages a drink per day between her first period and her first full-term pregnancy, she increases her risk of breast cancer by 13%.
The researchers also found that for every bottle of beer, glass of wine or shot of liquor consumed daily, a young woman increases her risk of proliferative benign breast disease (BBD) by 15%. Although such lesions are noncancerous, their presence increases breast cancer risk by as much as 500%.
The study is published online August 28, 2013 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
For more information:
Liu Y, Colditz GA, Rosner B, Berkey CS, Collins LC, Schnitt SJ, Connolly JL, Chen WY, Willett WC, Tamimi RM. Alcohol intake between menarche and first pregnancy: A prospective study of breast cancer risk. JNCI J Natl Cancer Inst (2013)doi: 10.1093/jnci/djt213 Online Aug. 28, 2013 [Article]
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Large Study Confirms Link Between School-age Alcohol Consumption and Breast Cancer – Onco’Zine, August 28, 2013 [Article]
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