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...malignancies, breast cancer is perhaps the one most feared by women, and with good reason. For one thing, it is the most common form of cancer found in women: about one in ten will eventually be stricken, and the American Cancer Society estimates that 130,000 new cases will be diagnosed this year alone. For another, it will cause approximately 41,000 deaths among females in 1987, second only to a projected total of 44,000 for the less prevalent but deadlier lung cancer. And even when breast cancer is successfully treated, that success is often accompanied by permanent disfigurement...
...report, by researchers at Harvard Medical School, concluded that women who consume as few as three drinks a week have a 30% greater chance of developing breast cancer than those who seldom or never drink. In the other study, researchers at the National Cancer Institute went further, reporting a < 50% higher risk for women who drink any alcohol at all, and as much as a 100% increase in risk for those who have three drinks or more weekly...
...found that women consuming more than one drink of an alcoholic beverage per day experienced an approximately 50 percent increased risk of breast cancer compared with women who drank occasionally or not at all," said Dr. Walter C. Willett, head author of the report and associate professor of epidemiology at the School of Public Health...
...Even the consumption of one drink or less per day was associated with a risk of breast cancer approximately 30 percent higher than non-drinkers," he said...
Women with a high risk for breast cancer may be the most affected by the implications of the research because alcohol may increase the risk even more, said Dr. Graham Colditz, who worked with Willett on the study. This high-risk group includes all women who are planning to have children after spending years in graduate school or a career as well as those with a family history of breast cancer...