Women should avoid all alcohol to reduce risk of breast cancer, charity says | Breast cancer

A charity warned that women should completely avoid alcohol to reduce the risk of breast cancer.

the world cancer The WCRF Research Fund has published a review of evidence on how to play diet and lifestyle factors a role in the development of the disease.

Globally, there were 2.3 million women with breast cancer and 670, 000 deaths resulting from the disease in 2022, according to the world. health Organization (from).

Research teams from Harvard University and the Institute of Health Research in the Balric Islands conducted a major review of WCRF to search for breast cancer and mortality.

The review recommended four measures. They are: maintaining a healthy weight and participating regularly in physical activity; Give priority to fruits, vegetables and foods that contain fiber; Reducing the consumption of red meat, processing and drinking drinks with sugar; And avoid alcohol and smoking.

“At the global level, breast cancer is the most common cancer among women. This report provides clear evidence that by looking at our entire diet and the way we live in, there are clear steps to recommend women to reduce the risk of breast cancer,” said Dr. Dura Romaguerra of the Institute of Health Research in the Balearic Islands.

“More importantly, this work highlights the greatest benefit when adhering to most aspects of the pattern that suffers from cancer simultaneously. By looking at our entire diet and the way we live, there are clear steps that we can take to reduce the risk of breast cancer.”

It seems that the fourth recommendation of WCRF – completely avoiding alcohol – inconsistent with the current directives in the UK and global.

UK government guidance is recommended to consume no more than 14 alcohol units per week, and have spread over three days or more. Who only says “Harmful use of alcohol“It raises the risk of breast cancer.

Cancer research in the UK says to adhere to.Low quantities of alcoholIt reduces the risk of breast cancer.

“Many different things affect the risk of breast cancer, others cannot be changed and others.”

“The current national guidance states that people [should] Do not consume more than 14 units of alcohol per week spread over three days or more to reduce health -related effects.

“Although we do not fully understand the reason for increasing alcohol drinking from the risk of breast cancer, it is believed that about 8 % of breast cancer cases are linked to drinking alcohol and we know that an alcoholic drink per day can raise the risk of breast cancer, and the more danger of the risk.”

Separate report before Alcohol Change UK, also published on Wednesday, found that even low levels of alcohol use, less than 14 units per week, were associated with increased risk of cancer and heart disease.

The Charitable Society calls on the UK government to provide better marks on all alcoholic drinks “to show health risks clearly.”

“For decades, we have fallen prey to a bilateral idea, but it is false that” drinking problems “only affect a minority of people who depend on alcohol.

“But with the clarification of this research, alcohol negatively affects our health and welfare through the drinking spectrum, even at” low risk levels. “