Tackling obesity, reducing alcohol consumption could prevent nearly 30,000 breast cancer cases in next decade

New Australian research has found that maintaining a healthy weight and a low alcohol intake of less than one drink per day could help prevent thousands of breast cancer cases within the next ten years. Led by researchers at the University of New South Wales, the new study looked at six Australian cohort studies which included a total of214,536 women to investigate if changing certain lifestyle habits could possibly prevent future cases of pre-menopausal and post-menopausal breast cancer. The findings, published in theInternational Journal of Cancer, showed that for pre-menopausal women, regular alcohol consumption explains 12.6 percent of breast cancer cases in the n...

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