Editorial. (2017) Alcohol and cancer. The Lancet, 390, (10109), p. 2215. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32868-4.
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The Nov 7 publication of Alcohol and Cancer: a Statement of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) emphasises the prominence of alcohol as a proven cause of many cancers. This view is not novel and comes exactly 30 years after a working group of the International Agency for Research on Cancer determined that alcoholic beverages were carcinogenic to humans. It has been echoed by other cancer societies since then but seemingly ignored by the wider medical community and by society. The influential endorsement by ASCO provides a powerful impetus to act on decades of evidence that alcohol harms health....
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G Health and disease > Pathologic process > Cancer
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