Alcohol Increases Risk of Breast Problems
An investigation concluded that girls who drink large amounts of alcohol in his teens, every day or almost every day, five times more likely to develop non-cancerous breast in young adulthood (20 and 29 years) and cancer a later stage of life.
The ‘non-cancerous “refers to various non-malignant conditions such as fibroadenoma, a noncancerous tumor, the most common among women aged 30 years or less. The study co-author Catherine Berkey, a biostatistician at the Harvard Medical School in Boston, said he knows benign breast disease increase the risk of breast cancer.
The study results showed that the risk of benign breast disease with increased frequency of alcohol consumption had a 1.5 times higher risk by drinking one or two days a week, three times by drinking three to five days week, and a 5.5 higher risk by drinking six to seven days a week, when compared with those who never drank or drank less than once a week.
Even those who drank once a week were not quite safe, said Berkey. “I suspect there might be a little additional risk of benign breast disease for which consume even small amounts of alcohol in his teens.”
Adolescence is a critical period for exposures that may potentially lead to cancer because the mammary glands grow rapidly during this period.
Experts suggest that the relationship is that alcohol increases the total levels of estrogen, which in turn increases the likelihood of benign breast disease.
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