Lea Yekutiel  

Dear friends,

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Alcohol and health. Good for you, bad for you.
Back and forth the debate rages. Some studies
indicate that moderate drinking improves
health and extends life (particularly in terms
of heart health), whereas other studies indicate
it may be implicated in an increased risk of
breast cancer for women -- one of the leading
causes of cancer death in women around the world.
In recent years, there's been some focus on what
women can do to decrease their risk of breast
cancer -- such as breastfeeding and eating a
good diet. But one thing they've been
consistently urged to do is stop drinking
alcohol. And now new studies may reinforce that
conclusion, while at the same time helping shed
some light on exactly how alcohol affects the
body and raises the risk of breast cancer.

According to findings presented last week at
the annual meeting of the American
Association for Cancer Research, in San Diego,
alcohol, consumed even in small amounts, may
significantly increase the risk of breast
cancer -- particularly
estrogen-receptor/progesterone-receptor
positive breast cancer. Further, the findings
are supported by a second study that found an
association between breast cancer risk and two
genes involved in alcohol metabolism.

Alcohol and estrogen/progesterone receptor
based breast cancers The first study followed
more than 184,000 postmenopausal women for an
average of seven years. Those who had less than
one drink a day had a 7 percent increased risk
of breast cancer compared to those who did not
drink at all. Women who drank one to two drinks
a day had a 32 percent increased risk, and those
who had three or more glasses of alcohol a day
had up to a 51 percent increased risk. The risk
was seen mostly in those 70 percent of tumors
classified as estrogen receptor- and
progesterone receptor-positive. The researchers
suspect that alcohol may have an effect on
breast cancer via an effect on estrogen in the
body.

The risk was similar whether women consumed
beer, wine, or hard liquor. Alcohol consumption
in any form was the common denominator. What
the exact mechanism is that might lead to this
increase in cancer is not known. It is suspected
that in some forms of breast cancer, malignant
cells have receptors that render them sensitive
to hormones such as estrogen. These tumors
referred to by doctors as being
estrogen-receptor/progesterone-receptor
positive (ER+/PR+) breast cancers.

And in fact the study found that alcohol
specifically increased the risk most for
ER+/PR+ tumors -- the most common type of
breast cancer in postmenopausal women. In
normal circumstances, when women reach
menopause, levels of both estrogen and
progesterone in their bodies fall
precipitously, which, according to the
medical establishment, should lead to fewer
of these tumors. But the study found that
post-menopausal women actually had higher
rates of these hormone-responsive tumors if
they drank alcohol. And the more they drank,
the higher the risk. As I stated earlier, the
study found that drinking less than one
serving of alcohol a day still resulted in a
7% increase of risk for the ER+/PR+ types of
breast cancer. And drinking as much as three
servings of alcohol per day vaulted your
risk upwards to 51%.

It is important to note that in women with
estrogen-receptor negative, progesterone-
receptor negative (ER-/PR-) tumors, there
appeared to be no link between drinking and
breast cancer.

The question of course arises, "Why would
drinking alcohol raise the risk of hormone-
fueled tumors regardless of receptor sites?"
As I mentioned earlier, the answer seems to be
that alcohol interferes with estrogen
metabolism, which in turn increases the risk
of hormone-sensitive breast cancer. We will
talk more about this later, but for now, let's
take a look at the second study I mentioned.

Second study will be emailed to you next week.

With all my love,

Lea Yekutiel
http://www.ilovemybreastcancer.com
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Lea-Yekutiel
http://www.wordpress.com/breastcancernmastectomy

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Lea