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The surgeon general cautioned the public on Friday that even light or moderate drinking is harmful.<\/p>\n

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The surgeon general of the U.S. Public Health Service warned on Friday that even light or moderate alcohol consumption can increase a person\u2019s risk of cancer.<\/p>\n

In a new report<\/a>, Dr. Vivek Murthy, the surgeon general, said that alcohol use had been directly linked with at least seven types of cancers, including those of the mouth, throat, larynx, esophagus, breast, liver and colon and rectum. Globally, 741,300 cancer cases were attributable to alcohol consumption in 2020.<\/p>\n

But public awareness of the link is low: Only 45 percent of Americans believe alcohol has a significant effect on whether someone develops cancer, according to a 2019 national survey<\/a> by the American Institute for Cancer Research.<\/p>\n

Research has shown that the more alcohol a person drinks \u2014 particularly the more a person consumes regularly, over time \u2014 the greater the risk of cancer. The association is true for all types of alcohol: beer, wine and spirits.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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But even what we think of as \u201clight\u201d or \u201cmoderate\u201d drinking \u2014 up to one drink per day \u2014 increases the risk of some cancers, like those of the mouth, pharynx and breast.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no safe level of alcohol when it comes to cancer risk,\u201d<\/em> said Dr. Ernest Hawk, the vice president and head of the division of Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.<\/p>\n

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The surgeon general cautioned the public on Friday that even light or moderate drinking is harmful.The surgeon general of the U.S. Public Health Service warned on Friday that even light or moderate alcohol consumption can increase a person\u2019s risk of cancer.In a new report, Dr. Vivek Murthy, the surgeon general, said that alcohol use had been directly linked with at least seven types of cancers, including those of the mouth, throat, larynx, esophagus, breast, liver and colon and rectum. Globally, 741,300 cancer cases were attributable to alcohol consumption in 2020.But public awareness of the link is low: Only 45 percent of Americans believe alcohol has a significant effect on whether someone develops cancer, according to a 2019 national survey by the American Institute for Cancer Research.Research has shown that the more alcohol a person drinks \u2014 particularly the more a person consumes regularly, over time \u2014 the greater the risk of cancer. The association is true for all types of alcohol: beer, wine and spirits.But even what we think of as \u201clight\u201d or \u201cmoderate\u201d drinking \u2014 up to one drink per day \u2014 increases the risk of some cancers, like those of the mouth, pharynx and breast.\u201cThere is no safe level of alcohol when it comes to cancer risk,\u201d said Dr. Ernest Hawk, the vice president and head of the division of Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19327,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19325"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19328,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19325\/revisions\/19328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}