MORE THAN 2 BEERS A YEAR UPS CANCER RISK
Drinking more than
just two pints of beer a year heightens the risk of cancer, scientists have
revealed.
Professor Sir Ian
Gilmore, the chairman of the Alcohol Health Alliance, said that the risks of
breast cancer in women were “significantly” higher, even when drinking within
the existing Government guidelines of one glass of wine a day, the Daily
Express reported.
The Alcohol Public
Health Research Alliance (AMPHORA), an EU-funded body of 30 universities and
other scientific institutes, has revealed that people were drinking on average
some 600 times the safe levels for preventing cancers.
The group’s lead
researcher, Professor Peter Anderson, of Newcastle University, presented the
findings at a major conference on cancer in Dublin 11 days ago.
He said ethanol and
acetaldehyde, toxins and carcinogens associated with alcohol, were more potent
than current safety guidelines acknowledge.
Anderson said some
4,500 Britons a year die of alcohol-caused cancers, such as those found in the
colon, liver, oesophagus, rectum and breast
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