Alcohol May Cause Breast and/or Endometrial Cancer

Postmenopausal women consuming two or more alcoholic
beverages a day may double their risk of endometrial
cancer, suggests a study led by researchers at the
University of Southern California (USC). The study
will appear in the International Journal of Cancer,
and is now available online.

"This is the first prospective study to report a
significant association between alcohol and
endometrial cancer," says Veronica Wendy Setiawan,
assistant professor of preventive medicine at the
Keck School of Medicine of USC. "Previous studies
have shown that alcohol consumption has been
associated with higher levels of estrogens in
postmenopausal women, which could be the mechanism
by which daily alcohol intake increases one's risk
of endometrial cancer."

According to the National Cancer Institute,
endometrial cancer is the most common cancer of
the female reproductive system. It accounts for
approximately six percent of all cancers in women.

"It's important for women, especially postmenopausal
women, to know and understand the consequences of
high alcohol consumption. It does not affect just
the liver, but alcohol has been associated with breast
cancer and now endometrial cancer," continues Setiawan.

Researchers drew upon data from the Multiethnic Cohort
Study (MEC), an epidemiological study of more than
215,000 people from Los Angeles and Hawaii created
in 1993 by Brian Henderson, M.D., dean of the Keck
School of Medicine of USC, and Laurence Kolonel, M.D., Ph.D.
of the University of Hawaii.

The study followed 41,574 postmenopausal African-American,
Japanese-American, Latina, Native-Hawaiian and White
women in Los Angeles and Hawaii for an average of 8 years.
Data on alcohol intake and endometrial cancer risk factors
were obtained from a baseline questionnaire.

"This discovery is important as it suggests that changes
to certain lifestyle choices may potentially help alter
risk of the disease," says Henderson, the paper's senior
author. "However, these findings are preliminary and must
be investigated further before any recommendations about
alcohol consumption can be made."

The study also found that the association of alcohol
intake and endometrial cancer is stronger among lean
women than among overweight or obese postmenopausal
women.

According to Dr. Robert O. Young, a research
microbiologist, "alcohol in overweight women is parked
in their fatty tissues to protect the organs that
sustain life. Lean or under weight women do not have
the excess fatty tissues to park the acidic alcohol so
the alcohol is left to break down healthy organs, like
the breasts or reproductive organs or the filter organs
like the liver, lungs and skin."

"Our data suggest that lean women may be more sensitive to
modest elevations in acidic hormone levels resulting from
alcohol drinking than obese women who already have high
levels of estrogen and therefore mask alcohol as an
independent risk factor," concludes Setiawan. "Again,
this is all preliminary and more studies with sufficient
numbers of heavy drinkers are needed to corroborate our
finding."

The best advise to protect the alkaline design of
the body fluids and tissues is to abstain from any
acidic drink and especially those that contain the
acid, alcohol.

"Alcohol is a metabolite of acetyl aldehyde and acetyl
aldehyde is a metabolite of sugar which are all acidic
poison to the body," states Dr. Young.

"Cancer is an acidic liquid waste metabolite from the
foods we eat and the energy we consume. The best
protection against these acidic liquid waste products
that can cause breast, brain, liver and endometrial
cancers is to avoid ALL acidic foods and drinks,
especially alcohol," states Dr. Young.

"Next time you have a glass of beer, wine or liquor
think of it as a glass of cancerous liquid waste -
the very poison that breaks down cells leading to
cancerous breasts, brain, liver, or reproductive
organs," suggests Dr. Young.

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Resource:

The National Institutes of Health and the National
Cancer Institute provided funding for the study.

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