Alcohol raises risk of breast cancer

Drinking, but not smoking linked to breast cancer.

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Collaborative group on hormonal factors in breast cancer . Alcohol, tobacco and breast cancer - collaborative reanalysis of individual data from 53 epidemiological studies, including 58,515 women with breast cancer and 95,067 women without the disease. British Journal of Cancer, 87, 1234 - 1245, (2002).
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Tom Clarke
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University of Bristol

Clarke, T. Alcohol raises risk of breast cancer. Nature (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/news021111-5