Breast cancer risk not affected by red vs white wine choice

I love a good glass of wine, particularly red. I’m not a fan of white wine although I appreciate a good one, especially on a hot summer evening. I try to avoid stories about if wine is good for you or is harmful for you because, to tell  you the truth, it’s one of the pleasures that I think is worth the risk. I don’t jump out of airplanes, I don’t ski out of bounds, I don’t mountain climb. Let me have my wine! Of course though, I’m not in a high risk group (that I know of) and I may think differently if I was. In that case, I’d be working on reducing risk as much as possible. So it is really all relative.

Anyway, if you do worry about if wine increases your risk of developing breast cancer and you wondered if one type of wine may be less or more harmful than another – no, that’s not the case. A study done in Seattle found that each is just as harmful as the other. The study was published in the March issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention.

According to a press release issued by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Institute, "The researchers found that women who consumed 14 or more drinks per week, regardless of the type (wine, liquor or beer), faced a 24 percent increase in breast cancer compared with non-drinkers."

The study looked at over 6,000 women.

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