The United States surgeon said on Friday that alcoholic beverages are a major cause of cancer and should carry a warning about this risk on its posters.
Alcohol is a factor in nearly 100,000 newly diagnosed cancers every year and about 20,000 deaths. consultative It aims to focus the audience’s attention on health risks. Compared, traffic accidents associated with drinking drinking About 13,500 Americans every year.
“The consumption of alcohol is the third reason that can be prevented from cancer in the United States, after tobacco and obesity.” “While the scientific evidence of this regard has been growing over the past four decades, less than half of the Americans realize this as a risk factor for cancer.”
Names on bottles and alcoholic boxes are already warning against drinking during pregnancy. They also warn against drinking before driving or operating other machines. In California, the voter -adopted proposal also requires actions that serve or sell alcoholic drinks to provide a warning about health risks, including cancer.
Any decision to update or expand the label will require the approval of Congress, which is an inaccurate possibility. Mortthi was appointed by President Biden, who has a little more than two weeks in his post. President -elected President Donald Trump Janet Nishwat, CEO of a series of New York -based urgent care clinics, chose as a candidate for public wounds.
Executive officials in the manufacture of beer, wine and spiritual drinks said on Friday that the scientific data that links alcohol to cancer is mixed.
Amanda Berger, the vice -president of the first district of the Mattarah, noticed that a Modern report By the national academies of science, engineering and medicine, I found that alcohol was linked to an increase in the risk of breast cancer, but he did not find such connections with other types of cancer.
This report also concluded that mild alcohol consumption is associated with the risks of a fully decreased death and cardiovascular disease, compared to alcohol that is never consumed.
Berger said: “The current health warning of alcohol products has long informed consumers of the potential risks of alcohol consumption.” “Many lifestyle options bear potential risks, and the role of the federal government is to define any proposed changes to warning data based on the entire scientific research group.”
The General Surgeon Consultant said that the vertical colon cancers, esophagus, liver, mouth, throat and throat are all linked to drinking, as well as breast cancer in women. He said that the risk of breast, mouth, or throat may increase with less than one drink per day.
(American General Surgeon Office)
However, more than half of the Americans are unaware that their drinking behavior affects the risk of cancer. A reconnaissance By the American Institute for Cancer Research, it was found that 89 % of Americans realized that smoking caused cancer and that 53 % knew that obesity was a risk factor, but only 45 % realized that alcohol could also cause cancer.
Almost half of the alcoholic cancers in the United States are breast cancers in women, according to L. study It was published by the American Cancer Association. About 1 in 6 female breast cancers are caused by alcohol, and the disease represents about 60 % of all alcohol -related cancer deaths.
As a result, drinking is more dangerous for cancer for women more than men. In 2019, about 54,330 women were diagnosed with cancer that resulted from drinking, such as approximately 4,2400 men. About 60 % of alcohol -related cancer deaths due to breast cancer, while liver and colon cancer and rectum are responsible for about 54 % of alcohol -related cancer deaths in men.
For women who consume less than one drink per week, the absolute risk of alcohol cancer is 16.5 %. Eating one drink per day of this risk increases to 19 %, and it takes two drinks every day it raises to 21.8 %, according to the consultant.
For men, drinking once a week is 10 % of the risk of alcohol -related cancer. This risk rises to 11.4 % by consuming one drink per day, and 13.1 % by drinking two drinks daily, says the consultant.
The International Health Organization for Research on Cancer says alcohol Group 1 carcinogenicPut it in the tobacco company, asbestos and ultraviolet radiation. The American National Toxicology Program announced in 2000 that alcohol causes cancer in humans, organizations including diseases and prevention control centers, the National Cancer Institute, the American Cancer Society and the American Association. For cancer research agrees that at least seven types of cancer are linked to drinking.
There is also evidence that drinking contributes to skin cancers, prostate, pancreas and stomach, although the need for more research.
Scientists first connect alcohol consumption to some cancer Nearly 50 years agoThe consultant says that the evidence that drinking is a dangerous factor for at least seven types of cancer has grown since then.
For example, Monitoring Of 28 million people in 195 countries and regions, I found that the more alcohol that a person consumed, the greater the risk of cancer. study More than a million women have found that those who have had up to 1 drinks per day were 10 % more likely to be more likely to breast cancer compared to those who abstained from them. On the same way, study With 36,000 people that those who consumed a daily drink were 40 % more likely to develop more oral cancer than people who did not drink.
Laboratory experiments showed how alcohol leads to cancer.
When alcohol is metabolized in the body, it collapses into a chemical called a chemical called Acetaldehyde It can hang itself on the DNA. The resulting damage can lead to the growth of uncontrolled cells that lead to cancer.
Drinking also creates unstable molecules called Types of interactive oxygen It can interfere with DNA, proteins and essential fats. They are also InflammationWhich makes the body more hosting of cancer.
There is also evidence that alcohol nourishes breast cancers by affecting the levels of estrogen and other hormones, and that other types of carcinogens – such as those in tobacco smoke – are absorbed more easily in the body when they are resolved in alcohol.
Companies that sell alcoholic beverages say they have long urged consumers to drink drinks safely.
“The American beer industry was a champion of decades -responsible consumption,” said a spokesman for the Al -Bireh Institute on Friday. “We encourage adults from the legal drinking era to make choices that suit their personal conditions, and if they choose to drink, to consume alcohol drinks in moderation.”
Dr. Laura Katina, the wine maker and the doctor, said that she “will welcome any kind of alert or communication from the general surgeon about the risks of cancer represented in drinking severe alcohol”, but it should not exceed the science in force.
American AssN. For cancer research, alcohol research says about 5.4 % of all cancer cases in the United States, making it a greater risk factor than UV radiation, poor diet, and infections of pathogens such as hepatitis and HPV. (For comparison, 19.3 % of US cancer is attributed to smoking, according to the association.)
Studies indicate People who reduce or eliminate alcohol can reduce the risk of these cancers by 8 %, and reduce the risk of cancer by 4 %.
the Food instructions for Americans One of the administrations of agriculture, health and humanitarian services, it says there is no healthy reason for the start of alcohol in alcohol consumption. Those who drink can drink their risks by limiting their consumption to more than one drink per day for women and no more than two daily drinks for men.
A cup of wine is 5 ounces of wine, or a 12 ounce bottle, or 1.5 ounces of distilled spirits, one drink.
Public Surgeon Consultant says about 83 % of alcohol -related cancer deaths occur in people who exceed these limits. But this means that 17 % of the deaths were in people who participated in moderate drinking.