Alcohol is the Third Leading Preventable Cause of Cancer

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Alcohol consumption is the third leading preventable cause of cancer in the United States, after tobacco and obesity, increasing risk for at least seven types of cancer. While scientific evidence for this connection has been growing over the past four decades, less than half of Americans recognize it as a risk factor for cancer.

The direct link between alcohol consumption and cancer risk is well-established for at least seven types of cancer including cancers of the breast, colorectum, esophagus, liver, mouth (oral cavity), throat (pharynx), and voice box (larynx), regardless of the type of alcohol (e.g., beer, wine, and spirits) that is consumed. For breast cancer specifically, 16.4% of total breast cancer cases are attributable to alcohol consumption.

Dr. Vivek Murthy
United States Surgeon General
January 3, 2025
U.S. Surgeon General Issues New Advisory on Link Between Alcohol and Cancer Risk | HHS.gov

See also: Alcohol and Cancer Risk.

I did not know this.

I should have put it together for at least liver cancer. An alcoholic cousin of mine died of liver cancer at about the age of 60.

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18 thoughts on “Alcohol is the Third Leading Preventable Cause of Cancer

  1. …and that whole thing turns out to be abject BS, since it was not a study, but a meta-study (study of studies) which included absolute garbage from non-verifiable source studies.

    The whole thing is yet another last-minute pile of scheisse from the Biden/DNC cabal.

    Their conclusion also eliminates (through omission) any possible positives from moderate consumption of alcohol, which are manifold, so there is zero possibility of a reasoned risk-versus-reward analysis.

    • Thirty-five years ago I saw a graph that resulted from a study of heart attacks, indicating that if you drank Zero servings of alcohol each day, you had the same likelihood of having a sudden, fatal heart attack as if you drank three servings of alcohol each day. One serving brought it way down, a second serving brought it up to a point between zero and one serving a day, and three servings brought it up to the level of Tea-totalers, and four took it off the chart.
      Make of it what you will.

  2. I haven’t refreshed my memory since Murthy was first appointed, but as I recall from that time, he’s only barely an MD. His specialty is really politics, not medicine or science.

  3. Cancer is almost unknown among people who do not get the “normal” childhood vaccinations. It’s also very rare among people who fast regularly, and the Tibbens Protocol with ivermectin, fenbendazol and the rest has been shown to be a cheap and effective treatment for cancer (which is why Big Pharma has no interest in it; because it would crater their tens of billions in annual profits from more dangerous patented cancer treatments). OTOH, turbo-cancer rates are skyrocketing from those who got the mRNA vax and boosters, so all of this sort of thing is a distraction to throw suspicions elsewhere and boost profits.

    https://www.2ndsmartestguyintheworld.com/p/breaking-news-stage-4-cancer-patients

    • “Cancer is almost unknown among people who do not get the “normal” childhood vaccinations.”

      Because they died in childhood of common diseases, long before they were old enough to get cancer.

      (Note that this does not imply that the not-a-vax is a vaccine, or that it is “safe and effective” in any sense of those words.)

    • If the “turbo-cancer rates are skyrocketing from those who got the mRNA vax and boosters” then the health insurance companies would have noticed. I recently asked someone who works at a health insurance company. They work with the actuaries. They said, no, they aren’t seeing a spike in cancer rates since the pandemic. Actually, it was said much more forcefully than that, but I toned it down to be more polite.

  4. And we have all seen grandmas that drank whiskey, smoked for 40 years, and live into their 90’s.
    That being said, moderation seem to be key for the many things we consume.
    As for alcohol, and all the ways it can kill you. Cancer is probably the last one on the list. But it is THE most abused of drugs ever invented/discover. Despite the good it can be used for.
    As for me, since I quit being a drunken drug addict. I can’t stand you assholes anymore.

  5. A) I trust absolutely NOTHING that came from anyone associated with the biden ( non-cap B used intentionally, to express disrespect) regime.
    B) IMHO, anyhow it’s all 80% genetics/ 20% what you do and how you live.
    My father drank heavily and smoked 2 packs a day from his teens to the end at age 89… which proves nothing, but is a data point. And he died without any alc or tobacco illness apparent.
    YMMV.

  6. It appears, or at least manifests as such, that we have a severe problem with informational content accuracy and veracity in that so many sources are corrupted and contaminated. Not that this is new, it’s always been there, but now seems more pronounced.

    The two most common affectors are political (aka: power seeking) and financial (aka: profit seeking; not that power is excluded from high profitability, the two are paired, but it’s a second-order effect).

    I’m at a loss as to a suitable corrective measure, other than the obvious: anything possessing even the slightlest and most remote association with left-of-center individuals, corporations or organizations should be regarded as Machiavellian subversive propaganda.

    Not that center- and right-of-center located sources are sufficiently pure that motives – or results – can be unquestioned, but they do seem marginally better. The litmus test is: “here’s all my data, including sources and references, knock yourself out” without which suspicion must reign supreme.

  7. Correlation does not equal causation. Alcohol MIGHT be a FACTOR in cancer for SOME people. But there is no objective evidence that A: drinking will always eventually lead to B: Cancer. In fact science still can’t say with certainty what causes MANY types of cancer. Why one person gets pancreatic cancer while another person leading a very similar life does not. Or why one person who smoked a pack a day for 20 years gets lung cancer while another similar person who smoked the same pack of cigarettes for 20 years did not. We may never know for sure ALL the intricacies of why people get cancer…and why some people do not.

    • Correlation is easy to do, even without a computer. Causation is hard. This is why most medical research is the former.

  8. I don’t mind a drink, but when training hard for my goals in running. I discovered that even a single drink had a very real impact on heart rate variability, sleep quality, and recovery from exercise. Hence, I rarely drink anymore. Doesn’t mean I won’t have a beer at the superbowl party or toast a good friend on their anniversary.

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