Cancer deaths linked to alcohol doubled in USA in 30 years

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Study finds just one drink per day could raise risk of disease with impacts extending far beyond liver cancer

Alcohol-related cancer deaths in the US have more than doubled over three decades, with new research showing that just one drink per day could raise cancer risk and that the impacts extend far beyond liver cancer.

Researchers at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, part of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, analyzed more than three decades of Global Burden of Disease data. Their study, published in August in the Lancet Regional Health , found that annual cancer deaths attributed to alcohol climbed from 11,361 in 1990 to 23,126 in 2023.

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