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Light drinking could lead to breast cancer

11/02/11

A new study by Harvard researchers has revealed that drinking as few as three to six glasses of wine weekly could increase women's risk for breast cancer by 15 percent.

According to the L.A. Times, an average U.S. woman's risk of developing cancer is one in eight over her lifetime.

Drinking wine on a weekly basis has also been discovered to lower women's incidence of heart disease by 25 to 40 percent, with the average woman's lifetime risk for heart disease being one in two, according to the Times.

"The trade-off makes it very difficult for women to know what to do," Dr. Tim Byers, associate director for cancer prevention and control at the University of Colorado Comprehensive Cancer Center, told the news source. "There are not many examples of where there is trade-off for heart disease and breast cancer. Most of the risks for heart disease and breast cancer are the same."

The study was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association and was based on data from more than 105,000 women in the National Institutes of Health/Harvard University Nurses' Health Study.

According to BreastCancer.org, close to 40,000 U.S. women are expected to die in 2011 from breast cancer, which suggests the importance of acquiring life insurance and making sure that financial burdens won't be an issue for loved ones in the future. 

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