Drinking alcohol raises prostate cancer risk
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A new study led by Lionel L. Bañez, MD, at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C. and colleagues suggests that drinking alcoholic beverages may increase prostate cancer dramatically.
The study presented at the Genitourinary Cancers Symposium showed that men who had three alcoholic drinks regularly each week were 2.46 times as likely as they who did not drink alcohol to develop prostate cancer.
American Americans were five times as likely to get prostate cancer while Caucasians were 85 percent more likely to acquire the disease if they drank that much of alcohol. The difference has something to do with genetics, the researchers said.
The study involved 334 men undergoing prostate biopsy at Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center from 2007 to 2009.
Alcoholic beverages along with more than 200 others have been officially recognized for long as a human carcinogen by the National Toxicology Programs.
The way alcohol affects the risk of prostate cancer seemingly through an metabolic intermediate product called acetaldehyde, which is a known carcinogen. When alcohol is metabolized, acetaldehyde is produced and accumulated, which also explains hangover.
By David Liu
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