Give Up Alcohol To Reduce Risk Of Mouth Cancer

Mon, 12 May 2008

The Mouth Cancer Foundation has called for a reduction to the current daily alcohol intake safety guidelines following latest evidence of a link between alcohol consumption and the risk of cancer .

The ‘Alcohol as a Cause of Cancer’ report from the Cancer Institute of New South Wales, Australia, has cast doubt on current drinking guidelines after concluding that men and women who drink just two glasses of alcohol a day increase the risk of developing mouth cancer by 75 per cent.

It revealed that women drinking just two standard drinks per day increases their risk of developing breast cancer by 22 per cent, while four drinks a day increases a man's risk of developing bowel cancer by 64 per cent.

Current advice from the Department of Health states that men should not regularly drink more than 3-4 units of alcohol per day, and that women should not regularly drink more than 2-3 units of alcohol per day.

However, the Mouth Cancer Foundation recommends no more than two standard drinks a day for men and no more than one a day for women.

Dr Vinod Joshi, founder of the Mouth Cancer Foundation, commented: "In view of this latest report the current alcohol guidelines that we've got are actually very high."

"To reduce the risk of mouth cancer, the Mouth Cancer Foundation recommends that people should limit or avoid their alcohol altogether."

The ‘Alcohol as a Cause of Cancer’ report was produced in a bid to explain the increasing levels of cancer in society and to raise people’s awareness of the link between cancer and alcohol consumption.
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