date:Nov 19, 2012
Alcoholic beverage consumption increases risk of developing breast cancer, which is a fact. Now a study in Cancer Epidemiologgy, Biomarkers Prevention suggests that drinking some alcohol daily after diagnosis of breast cancer did not seem to increase risk of death from the disease, but may increase recurrence risk, particularly in postmenopausal women.
M.L. Kwan of Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California and colleagues followed 9,329 breast cancer patients in the After Bre