Breast Cancer Awareness & Alcohol Use

October 26, 2020 | FSEAP Solutions

Dozens of studies link alcohol to breast cancer.

1. Alcohol increases a woman’s risk of hormone-receptor-positive breast cancer.
2. Consumption of alcohol causes increased estrogen.
3. Alcohol may damage DNA in cells.
4. Consuming three alcoholic drinks a week raises the risk of breast cancer by 15% compared with not drinking.
5. Alcohol consumption raises the risk of breast cancer by 10% for each additional drink regularly consumed each day.
6. Teen girls who have three to five drinks per week have three times the risk of developing benign breast lumps that may become cancerous later in life.
7. Having two to three alcoholic drinks a day increases the risk that breast cancer will return following treatment by 20% compared with not drinking.

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Sources: Breastcancer.org, Komen.org, NIAAA.gov