The National Breast Cancer Awareness Month is understandably outrages many women who drink alcohol companies to take advantage of the status of the pink ribbon to promote the sale of alcohol, including vodka and liqueurs.
As the United States today, Mike Hard Lemon, US - based manufacturer of alcoholic beverages now adds color to the product of breast cancer by sporting pink ribbons pink wine; Chambord also sell pink vodka and liqueurs.Alcohol has been recognized by the U.S. National Toxicology Program as a human carcinogen, or cancer causing agents. Effects of Alcohol on the number of cancers, including breast cancer has been well established. Although drinking is not all breast cancer, alcohol can cause damage that may have important clinical implications or significance.
Below is a study recently to remind readers again that drinking alcohol increases the risk of breast cancer. And hope that some readers may find them interesting.
No alcohol consumption increases the risk of breast cancer and mortality among women with breast cancer early?
The study, published in the August 30, 2010 issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology found that drinking alcoholic beverages, including wine, beer and alcohol may increase the risk of breast cancer, particularly among postmenopausal and weight girl. and / or obese women.
Kwan ML, and colleagues from the University of Utah in Salt Lake City UT in the analysis of data collected from 1897 women two years after diagnosis of breast cancer initially between 1997 and 2000. During the 7.4 years following, 293. breast cancer recurrences and 273 deaths identified.
Fifty-one percent of participants assigned to drink drink more than 0.5 grams per day of alcohol from wine, beer and spirits.
Those who drank six or more grams per day, 35 percent more likely to have recurrence and 51 percent more likely to die from breast cancer compared to those who do not drink.
When compared with nondrinkers risk of breast cancer was 51 percent higher among those who drank 6 grams or more per day of alcohol, the risk increased to 60 percent among women with overweight and obesity. drinking 6 grams per day.
Alcohol consumption affects the risk of all types of breast cancer or not.
The study, published in the September 22, 2010 issue Journal of the National Cancer Institute pointed out from drinking alcohol, which may be associated more strongly with the risk of breast cancer is more sensitive than the hormonal breast cancer. hormone insensitive.
In the study, Li CI, and colleagues from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Seattle Washington to assess the relationship between alcohol consumption and breast cancer in postmenopausal 87,724 women in the Women's Health cohort initiated observations expected From 1993 to 1998 study.
Researchers identified 2944 cases of invasion of breast cancer during the follow through September 15, 2005. Alcohol consumption is positively correlated with the risk rising of breast cancer that invaded the overall cancer lobular invasive tumor receptor. - positive hormone
Association relationships are much greater in some types of breast cancer, invasive than other types. When compared with nondrinkers, those who used seven or more alcoholic drinks per week were 82 percent more likely to develop hormone receptor. invasive lobular carcinoma was positive but only 14 percent more likely to suffer hormone receptor - positive ductal invasive carcinoma.
Alcohol promotes growth of mammary tumors.
Hong J, and colleagues from the University of Texas at Austin TX published reports on August 28, 2010 issue of Cancer Letter said that rats developed tumors alcohol consumption on breast bigger and develop them earlier. When compared with the water - I drink
Researchers also found that alcohol was increased invasiveness of breast cancer cells in dose-dependent manner.
Alcohol high risk associated with breast cancer in Romania.
Case control study led by Nasui Beach and colleagues from the Department of Environmental Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy found that drinking alcohol, which is associated with increased incidence of breast cancer in women, Romania.
The study, published in the Jul - September 2009 issue of the Rev Med Chir soc Iasi Nat Med. Included 223 patients with breast cancer and 211 non-cancer control.
Researchers found that a group of women with breast cancer drank 5.87 grams of alcohol per day compared to 4.79 grams per day for the control. Those who consumed more than 6.03 grams of alcohol per day had 74 percent more likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer.
They concluded, "to reduce the consumption of alcohol as a means of potential to reduce the risk of breast cancer.."
Drinking excessive alcohol increases the risk of breast cancer.
R. Suzuki and colleagues from the National Cancer Institute in Tokyo and analyze data about alcohol consumption and breast cancer status from 50,757 premenopausal. And postmenopausal women aged 40-69 and found that when compared with non-drinkers who drank more than 150 grams of alcohol per week, 75 percent more likely to develop breast cancer.
For women. premenopausal. Increased 78 percent while that for postmenopausal women increased 21 percent, which may indicate that younger women may be more sensitive to cancer effect of alcohol promotion.
The study was published on August 1, 2010 in the International Journal of Cancer.
