"Casual Alcohol Use Has Been Linked to Several Major Cancers—So Where's the Campaign? " - Maggie O’Neill
Recently, alcohol has been directly linked to seven cancers including throat, esophagus, mouth, voice box (larynx), colon and rectum, liver, and breast. It’s an awkward conversation for doctors to have with patients, because doctors don’t want to portray the issue in a judgmental way. It can be especially uncomfortable to talk about the relationship between alcohol and cancer after a person has been diagnosed with breast cancer. “It doesn’t really help to say, your drinking contributed to this cancer,” said Sarah Cate, MD, assistant professor of surgery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. When Dr. Cate works with breast cancer survivors, she gives them a list of risk factors so they know, going forward, how to minimize their risk of recurrence.
— Sarah P. Cate, MD, Assistant Professor, Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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