Drink Alcohol, Reduce Risk of Renal Cell Cancer?

Regardless of the type of alcoholic beverage (beer wine, liquor) – in both men and women – drinking at least an average of one alcoholic beverage a day was found associated with a 30% reduction in renal cancer risk.

Such is the result of an analysis of 12 prospective studies of alcohol consumption among renal cancer patients, conducted by a team from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston led by Jung Eun Lee, Sc.D.

Wait a minute. We shouldn’t be dancing the dance of joy and drink like there’s no tomorrow.

According to the study’s authors:

“However, because alcohol drinking is associated with increased risks of cancers of the oral cavity, larynx, pharynx, esophagus, liver, and breast, and probably the colon and rectum, maintaining a healthy weight and avoiding smoking are the principal known means to reduce the risk of renal cell cancer that should be encouraged and doing so may also reduce the risk of many other cancers as well as cardiovascular disease.”

Remember, on the average at least one alcoholic beverage per day…like what they say is good for your heart. One glass I presume…not one barrel!

Read the article abstract in the May 16 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

Renal cell cancer or renal cell carcinoma (a kidney cancer) is a cancer that forms in the center of the kidney where urine collects.

Source: Science Daily