Surgeon General Warns: Alcohol Consumption Linked to 7 Cancer Types, 100k Cases Annually

A new health warning from one of America’s best doctors has revealed that even moderate drinking can increase your risk of acquiring cancer. U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy is pushing for cancer warning labels on alcoholic beverages, highlighting a health risk many Americans don’t know about. “Alcohol consumption has been identified as a risk factor for at least seven types of cancer, including breast, liver, colon, and esophageal cancers,” says Dr. Mary Beth Terry, PhD, Professor of Epidemiology and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University. Alcohol causes about 100,000 new cancer cases and 20,000 cancer deaths annually in the United States. … Continue reading Surgeon General Warns: Alcohol Consumption Linked to 7 Cancer Types, 100k Cases Annually