Alcohol consumption

SAN DIEGO-Alcohol consumption has been linked to a higher risk of the most common kind of breast cancer among older women, a large U.S study suggests.

The National Cancer Institute

Data from more than 184,000 women is the largest of three big studies to discover that drinking increases the risk of breast cancer among older women; this was stated by Jasmine Lew on Sunday, a researcher at the National Cancer Institute and the study’s lead investigator.

Hormone-sensitive disease

The research shows that women who have three or more drinks a day, the risk of breast cancer is 51% higher in them and the women with one or two small drinks a day have 32% chances to grow a hormone-sensitive disease.