Alcohol Linked to Cancer in Women

American researchers led by Dr. Arthur Klatsky of the Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program in Oakland, Calif., revealed their findings at a meeting of the European Cancer Organization in Barcelona. They found that all types of alcohol, including wine, beer or liquor all equally increase the risk of breast cancer in women. There's not really good news when a study like this comes out, but if there were some, it's that cancer risk increases based on consumption--something that's controllable.

Again, regardless of the alcohol, women who had less than one drink a day showed no difference in their risk. Women who had one or two drinks a day increased their risk of developing breast cancer by 10 percent. Women who had more than three drinks a day raised their risk by a whopping 30 percent.

Researchers analyzed the drinking habits of 70,033 women of various races and asked them questions during health exams between 1978 and 1985. By 2004, 2,829 of these women had been diagnosed with breast cancer.

Three drinks or more a day is a pretty significant number, but even one drink a day on average makes this study very frightening. To read the full article on MSNBC, click here.