Good news on the alcohol front: alcohol may reduce risk of kidney cancer, hurrah!
The team found that the odds of developing kidney cell cancer was about 40-percent lower among those who consumed 620 g ethanol per month compared to those who did not drink at all.
Drinking more than two glasses of red wine per week was associated with a 40-percent reduction in kidney cell cancer risk compared with drinking no red wine, the investigators observed, and there were similar trends for more than two glasses per week of white wine or strong beer.
Meanwhile, bad news on the alcohol front: alcohol may increase risk of endometrial cancer, boo!
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).... “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.”
Right, so for those of you keeping score at home, just remember, even if alcohol is good or bad for you on the cancer scale, it's still hella bad for you on the overall life expectancy scale if you drink it like I do, which is to say, in industrial drum-size volumes.
