No More Happy Hour?

The latest Yahoo! News headline to catch my eye: "More evidence links alcohol, cancer in women." According to the article, 1.3 million British women at breast cancer screening clinics were surveyed about their drinking habits over the course of seven years. Researchers compared women who regularly consumed two or fewer drinks a week with women who drank more. According to the study, each additional drink increased the risk of breast, rectal, and liver cancer. If smokers drank, according to the study, only then were they at higher risk for esophageal and oral cancers.

What I did not like about this article was that it did not indicate who did the study. Because this is news, the research study is probably too new to appear as a research article indexed in a database. It would have been helpful to at least find out if the study had been published in a journal or not.

I am curious to read about the research design of this study, as well as why alcoholic beverages put the body at higher risk for cancer.