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There is an urgent need to raise global awareness about the direct link between alcohol consumption and cancer risk. That message was delivered by Isabelle Soerjomataram, PhD, with the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France, at a session devoted to alcohol and cancer at the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) Annual Meeting 2023. "Global awareness about the link between alcohol and cancer continues to be very low," Soerjomataram told the audience. "Health professionals — oncologists, nurses, medical doctors, GPs — have an important role in increasing awareness and bringing this knowledge to people, which may lead to reduced consumption." Session chair Gilberto Morgan, MD, medical oncologist, Skåne University Hospital, Lund, Sweden, agreed. Morgan noted that healthcare professionals tend to downplay their influence over patients' drinking habits and often don't address these behaviors. But that needs to change. "We have absolutely no problem asking patients if they take supplements or vitamins or if they're eating [healthy]," Morgan said. "So, what is the difference? Why not recommend that they cut down their alcohol intake and leave it up to everybody's personal choice to do it or not?" In the session, Soerjomataram highlighted the global statistics on alcohol use. IARC data show, for instance, that nearly half (46%) of the world's population consumes alcohol, with rates higher in men (54%) than women (38%). How much are people drinking? Globally, on average, the amount comes to about six liters of pure ethanol per year per drinker, or about one wine bottle per week. However, consumption patterns vary widely by country. In France, people consume about 12 liters per year or about two wine bottles per week. Soerjomataram stressed the link between alcohol consumption and cancer. According to IARC data, heavy drinking — defined as more than 60 g/day or about six daily drinks — accounts for 47% of the alcohol-attributable cancers. Risky drinking — between 20 and 60 g/day — accounts for 29%, she explained, while moderate drinking — less than 20 g/day or about two daily drinks — accounts for roughly 14% of cases of alcohol-attributable cancers. Globally, alcohol intake accounted for 4% of all cancers diagnosed in 2020, according to a 2021 analysis by IARC. In the UK alone, "alcohol drinking caused nearly 17,000 cases of cancer in 2020," Soerjomataram said, and breast cancer made up almost one in four of those new cases. In addition to breast cancer, six other cancer types — oral cavity, pharyngeal, laryngeal, esophageal, colorectal, and liver cancer — can be attributed to alcohol consumption, and emerging evidence suggests stomach and pancreatic cancer may be as well. The good news, said Soerjomataram, is that long-term trends show declines in alcohol drinking in many countries, including the high wine-producing countries of France and Italy, where large reductions in consumption have been noted since the peak of intake in the 1920s. "If it's possible in these countries, I can imagine it's possible elsewhere," said Soerjomataram. LINK: https://www.medscape.com/viewa...etid5995457&uac=6532 | ||
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Maybe if government wasn't so f'd up people wouldn't drink so much ... "If Gun Control worked, Chicago would look like Mayberry, not Thunderdome" - Cam Edwards | |||
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Ridiculous nonsense. ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan | |||
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| Tinker Sailor Soldier Pie |
Dude. You brought in politics in the first post. Impressive. ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan | |||
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The only thing more impressive would be to do it in your own thread, in the OP of an apolitical thread. Let's hope it doesnt come to that... NRA Life Member Steak: Rare. Coffee: Black. Bourbon: Neat. | |||
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Well, politics/government is one of the biggest causes is stress these days, so ... "If Gun Control worked, Chicago would look like Mayberry, not Thunderdome" - Cam Edwards | |||
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Bob, you damn well know better. No, Bob. Flat-out no. Read it and heed it. I think it's true. Long ago I noticed the very high incidence of throat cancer in people who smoke cigarettes and drink. I think heavy consumption of alcohol is devastating to the human body and triggering cancers seems to go hand in hand with such abuse. | |||
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Cancer does thrive on sugar... SIGforum: For all your needs! Imagine our influence if every gun owner in America was an NRA member! Click the box>>> | |||
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Sorry. I know about bringing politics into a thread, but I didn't think the generic term 'politics/government' violated that. "If Gun Control worked, Chicago would look like Mayberry, not Thunderdome" - Cam Edwards | |||
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Yeah, I dunno about that. ______________________________________________ “There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.” | |||
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Next up.. breathing causes cancer. Pronoun: His Royal Highness and benevolent Majesty of all he surveys 343 - Never Forget Its better to be Pavlov's dog than Schrodinger's cat There are three types of mistakes; Those you learn from, those you suffer from, and those you don't survive. | |||
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Sorry. They mentioned links. Is there data that indicates causal relationships? Or just correlated? Seems difficult to prove causal. "Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it." L.Tolstoy "A government is just a body of people, usually, notably, ungoverned." Shepherd Book | |||
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I can see how drinking what amounts to a solvent could affect the tissues in direct contact. Still, 4% isn’t all that significant. We’d like to believe we have more control of such things than we really do. Sometimes it really does “just happen”. | |||
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My mother died of head and neck cancer. SIGforum: For all your needs! Imagine our influence if every gun owner in America was an NRA member! Click the box>>> | |||
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| Tinker Sailor Soldier Pie |
I certainly agree with that. My issue is with the certainty in which the study says so and so cancer diagnoses is directly attributed to alcohol consumption. There are just too many other variable involved for one to say such a thing so definitively. Perhaps it's the alcohol alone, but people who consume that much probably are also not the most healthy individuals in other aspects as well, such as diet and physical exercise. So to blame the cancer solely on alcohol seems ridiculous to me. But of course, that's only my opinion. A moderate drinker who is otherwise physically fit and eats only fresh, wholesome foods I believe is a lot less likely to get cancer than a person who never drinks but has a terrible diet, very stressed, and is physically in terrible shape. ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan | |||
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My wife is a non-smoker, has never drunk alcohol in her life, and she's had cancer (of 4 different types) 4 separate times, from her late 20s and into her 60s. According to the geneticist lady, she has no genetic markers for cancer, she's just 'lucky' that way. Explain that shit Ms. Isabelle Soerjomataram PhD if you can, and I'll bet you can't. What tosh these people do talk, just to hear themselves speak. | |||
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| Peace through superior firepower |
It's the exact kind of comment the policy was created to address, and I do mean exactly- the generic, lame joke. | |||
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. I doubt she said it's a guarantee either way. Just like I'm sure there are total drunks who have never had cancer. | |||
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And, I'm sure, nonsmokers, nondrinkers like me that had head and neck cancer. Sometimes life just ain't fair. Bob | |||
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