If you thought one-two drinks a day would not do any harm, think again. Even a light level of drinking may raise overall cancer risk, reports a new study.

‘A light level of drinking at 10-drink-year point, for example, one drink per day for ten years or two drinks per day for five years, would raise cancer risk by five percent.
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"In Japan, the primary cause of death is cancer," said one of the researchers Masayoshi Zaitsu from The University of Tokyo. "Given the current burden of overall cancer incidence, we should further encourage promoting public education about alcohol-related cancer risk," Zaitsu said. 




The team examined clinical data on 63,232 patients with cancer and 63,232 controls matched for sex, age, hospital admission date, and admitting hospital. The data was gathered from 33 general hospitals in Japan.
All participants reported their average daily amount of standardized alcohol units and the duration of drinking.
One standardized drink containing 23 grams of ethanol was equivalent to one 180-ml cup of Japanese sake, one 500-ml bottle of beer, one 180-ml glass of wine, or one 60-ml cup of whiskey.
The researchers found an almost linear association between cancer risk and alcohol consumption.
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Source-IANS