date:Nov 19, 2012
e. A total of 5,422 women with breast cancer were drinkers defined as having greater than 0.36 g/day of alcohol or greater than 0.25 drinks/week with a median of 5.3 g of alcohol per day.
Compared with those who did not drink alcoholic beverage, breast cancer patients who regularly drank 6.0 g per day was not correlated with risk of recurrence. But those who drank 6 to 12 g/day, 12 to 24 g per day, or greater than 24 g per day were 3%, 12% or 34% more likely to have recurrence, respectively,