Drinking Linked to Breast Cancer

Despite what Geezer has reported about the health benefits of wine, the Scientific American now delivers some bad news about booze. The magazine reports on a National Cancer Institute study whose results indicate that women who have one to two small drinks a day were 32 percent more likely to develop a hormone-sensitive breast cancer tumor. Wait, it gets worse: Three or more drinks a day raised the risk by 51 per cent.   Those conclusions come from an analysis of data from more than 184,000 women--the biggest study yet to link alcohol consumption to an increased risk of the most common type of breast cancer in postmenopausal women. Read more of this distressing report in the Scientific American.