Drink Alcohol, Reduce Risk of Renal Cell Cancer?
May 17, 2007 by Gloria Gamat
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
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 …read more




