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Is alcohol related to cancer?

Female  45 years old 2018-06-20
I usually like to drink alcohol, and I have a small drink. I want to ask whether drinking alcohol is really related to cancer?

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  • BY Ina Barton 2018-06-20
    The ethanol in these fluids, and the intermediate metabolite of ethanol in the human body, acetaldehyde, damages DNA, destroys proteins, affects estrogen secretion, reduces liver detoxification capacity, dissolves mucus proteins on the surface of the digestive tract mucosa, inhibits human immune function, and reduces The body's absorption of some vitamins clearly increases the risk of head and neck cancer, oropharyngeal cancer, esophageal cancer, liver cancer, breast cancer, colorectal cancer, pancreatic cancer, gastric cancer, etc. (23%Laryngeal cancer, 22% Of liver cancer and esophageal cancer of 21% are both related to drinking), and there are associations with many other types of cancer (renal cancer, non-Hodgkin lymphoma).
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