Drinking Causes Cancer

[danmand]

New review concludes evidence for alcohol causing cancer is strong





Friday, 22 July 2016

Jennie Connor imageUniversity of Otago researcher Professor Jennie Connor’s new review of epidemiological evidence supports a causal association between alcohol consumption and cancers at seven sites in the body: oropharynx, larynx, oesophagus, liver, colon, rectum and female breast.

This is a stronger statement than the long-recognised association between alcohol and cancer. An association means there is a relationship of some kind between the two variables. A causal association means there is evidence that alcohol consumption directly causes cancer.

Professor Connor’s review is published online today by the scientific journal Addiction.

The causal link was supported by evidence for a dose-response relationship, at least partial reversal of risk when alcohol consumption is reduced, statistical adjustment for other factors that might explain the association, and specificity of the association with some cancers and not others.

The epidemiological evidence for these conclusions comes from comprehensive reviews undertaken in the last 10 years by the World Cancer Research Fund and American Institute for Cancer Research, the International Agency for Research on Cancer, the Global Burden of Disease Alcohol Group, and the most recent comprehensive meta-analysis undertaken by Bagnardi and colleagues*, building on meta-analyses of the effect of alcohol on single cancers.

Professor Connor’s review cites evidence that alcohol caused approximately half a million deaths from cancer in 2012, 5.8 per cent of cancer deaths worldwide. The highest risks are associated with the heaviest drinking, but a considerable burden is experienced by drinkers with low to moderate consumption.

The review also finds the current evidence that moderate drinking provides protection against cardiovascular disease is not strong.

 

[canada-man]

 

[canada-man]

why it that alcohol causing cancer generate so much outrage? but when people say smoking cause cancer nobody is outraged

 

[GPIDEAL]

Smoking is terrible for your skin and looks.

Too much alcohol as well (Besides killing some brain cells).

 

[Aellyn Rose]

But, French Paradox.

http://www.healthassist.net/food/french/french-paradox.shtml

Thanks for posting this spraggamuffin... I was going to say something along those lines. I come from France and we grow up thinking that red wine is good for us. Although you don't often see people sipping wine outside of meals - if you respect the wine, give it steak

 

[GPIDEAL]

Thanks for posting this spraggamuffin... I was going to say something along those lines. I come from France and we grow up thinking that red wine is good for us. Although you don't often see people sipping wine outside of meals - if you respect the wine, give it steak

Drinking wine in moderation is good for the heart no?

 

[SashaRose]

Practically everything can give you cancer these days.

 

[canada-man]

http://anonhq.com/alcohol-kills-nearly-3x-time-more-american-each-year-than-gun/

“How many people have to die before we actually act?”

Mrs. Clinton is absolutely right. How many people have to die before America stands together and takes action? Last year alone nearly 88,000 people died in America as a direct result of excess alcohol abuse: http://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/fact-sheets/alcohol-use.htm

In comparison only 33,000 Americans died last year from gun related violence, including terrorism: http://www.businessinsider.com/more-americans-have-die-from-gun-violence-than-terror-attacks-2015-10

These statistics are no anomaly. If you do your own research a quick online search will show you that alcohol kills nearly 3 times more Americans each year then guns. Still not convinced? Did you know that alcohol is the number 1 underlying cause/factor behind crime in the United States: https://ncadd.org/about-addiction/alcohol-drugs-and-crime

Similarly a study conducted by drug experts shows that alcohol alone causes more harm to society than heroine, cocaine and marijuana combined: http://anonhq.com/alcohol-still-legal/

So where is societies outrage? Where are all the millions of dollars in campaign contributions and television ads trying to save peoples lives from the dangers of alcohol? If people like Hillary Clinton are so concerned about saving American lives why does no one talk about this issue?

It might have something to do with the fact the alcohol tax reveue nets the Unted States government 9.6 billion dollars: http://www.statista.com/statistics/248952/revenues-from-alcohol-tax-and-forecast-in-the-us/

Where as firearm tax revenue only nets the government 123 million dollars: http://www.statisticbrain.com/firearm-industry-statistics/

 

[SkyRider]

We can now order alcohol from the LCBO online for home delivery.

 

[danmand]

Drinking wine in moderation is good for the heart no?

The study from New Zealand finds no good effect.

 

[rhuarc29]

Now they tell me. Drinking causes cancer. It didn't seem that long ago when they said red wine was good for you.

Yes, "they" said that. Some obscure, isolated study that gets picked up by the media for sensational headlines.

 

[GPIDEAL]

The study from New Zealand finds no good effect.

What kind of fucking study was that?

What about the flavanoids in certain red wines that are anti-oxidants which reduce heart disease and cancer?

http://www.frenchscout.com/polyphenols

 

[SkyRider]

My Italian neighbours make their own wine and keep telling me that drinking wine is good for me.

Somehow I suspect that the wine and alcohol industries and the LCBO are promoting drinking (responsibly) so they can make more money.

 

[Aellyn Rose]

Drinking wine in moderation is good for the heart no?

That's right! Red wine is good for the arteries, therefore for your heart.

 

[kid_kuh]

Moderation is the key to long life. Cancer is a cell, our bodies are made up many types of cells. It's fair to say cancer already exist in all our bodies; but requires a particular type of trigger for it to become damaging.

 

[canada-man]

60 year ago Big Tobacco were claiming smoking was healthy

http://www.news.com.au/world/breaki...d/news-story/ef2a64343b7c98ca769a45f5df73dd2d

Many people enjoy a glass of wine with dinner happily believing that they are reducing the risk of heart disease and helping themselves to live longer.
But now researchers have reassessed the science behind the claimed benefits of drinking within reasonable limits - and concluded that it's flawed.
Many of the 87 studies analysed were found to be poorly designed and biased, suggesting a positive effect when it was likely none existed.
A key issue was the way authors defined "abstainers" who provided the vital comparisons from which conclusions about the health effects of alcohol could be made.
Often, studies compared "moderate" drinkers who consumed up to two drinks per day with "current" abstainers.
However, the abstainer group could include people who had cut out alcohol because of poor health, it was claimed.
"A fundamental question is, who are these moderate drinkers being compared against?" said Dr Tim Stockwell, director of the University of Victoria's Centre for Addictions Research in British Columbia, Canada.
When Dr Stockwell's team corrected for abstainer biases and other alleged study design issues, moderate drinkers no longer showed a longevity advantage.
Only 13 of the 87 studies avoided biasing the abstainer comparison group, and none of these showed any health benefit associated with moderate alcohol consumption.
Before the corrections were made, it was actually "occasional" drinkers - people having fewer than one drink per week - who lived the longest, said Dr Stockwell.
He doubts that such infrequent drinking could be the reason for their longer life spans.
"Those people would be getting a biologically insignificant dose of alcohol," he maintained.
The new research, published in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, did not look at whether certain types of drink, such as red wine, were linked to longer life.
If that proved to be true, alcohol itself would probably not deserve to take the credit, said Dr Stockwell.

 

[wigglee]

Fuk it, everything causes cancer, I'm sure they can find a tenuous link to that so as to keep their funding alive to keep their lab open. So drink up and enjoy life.

or switch to cannabis

 

[canada-man]

Alcohol consumption is falling

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-world-is-drinking-less-alcohol-except-americans-2016-05-19

http://www.economist.com/news/britain/21699184-english-are-easing-up-booze-more-tea-totally

 

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