Moderate levels of alcohol increases risk of mouth and throat cancer
06 Jul 2015
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Moderate levels of alcohol consumption significantly upped a person's risk of developing mouth and throat cancer, new data revealed, which prompted calls for people limiting themselves to two standard drinks per day, abc.net.au reported.
Researchers from the Cancer Council and the University of Melbourne studied data that tracked the drinking habits of 41,000 adults since the early 1990s.
They found that average lifetime consumption of four or more standard alcoholic drinks per day doubled the risk of mouth and throat cancer, as against not drinking alcohol at all.
