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There is another reason that doctors are hesitant to advise women to stop drinking: many studies have suggested that moderate consumption of alcohol reduces the risk of heart disease, which annually kills more than nine times as many women as does breast cancer. Walter Willett, the principal author of the Harvard study, admits, "We're also missing one piece of information -- specifically, whether decreasing or stopping in the middle of life will influence the risk of breast cancer. It's possible that whatever damage may have been done early on cannot be reversed...
...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...
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...
Punt Returns Player No Yds TD Long Avg Ted Macauley 15 113 0 28 7.5 Mike Willett 1 18 0 18 18.0 Buddy Zachery 1 12 0 12 12.0 Mike Flannery...
...Brice 5 0/0 0/0 0 30 John Duryea 0 8/11 0/0 5 23 Troy Jenkins 2 0/0 0/0 0 12 Bret Schulte 2 0/0 0/0 0 12 Dean Athanasia 1 0/0 0/0 0 6 Buddy Zachery 1 0/0 0/0 0 6 Tom Mercein 1 0/0 0/0 0 6 Michael Willett 1 0/0 0/0 6 Tony Capellino...