[Hopespringpcsg] FW: [PPML] Alcohol Intake Linked to Prostate Cancer Risk

[Glen Tolhurst]

Hi all:
See below for reference to an article wrt alcohol consumption & PCa.
Unless there is a typo in the summary, there is less relative risk for medium volume drinkers than for low volume drinkers.
So, unless you don't "tipple" at all, 4 drinks are better for PCa than 2. :>) 
Take care,
Glen

Subject: [PPML] Alcohol Intake Linked to Prostate Cancer Risk

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/872085

"A Canadian and Australian team reports that they found, for the first time among meta-analyses, a significant dose-response relationship between level of alcohol intake and risk for prostate cancer, starting with low-volume consumption.

When compared to lifetime abstainers, low-volume drinkers (up to two drinks per day) had an 8% greater risk for prostate cancer (relative risk [RR] = 1.08, *P* < .001); medium-volume drinkers (up to four drinks per day) had a 7% greater risk (RR = 1.07, *P* < .01); high-volume drinkers (up to 6 drinks per day), a 14% greater risk (RR = 1.14, *P* < .001); and higher-volume drinkers (6 drinks or more per day), an 18% greater risk (RR = 1.18, *P* < .001).​..."


Source:
http://bmccancer.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12885-016-2891-z​

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