Moderate Red Wine Drinking Does Not Help Cut Women's Breast Cancer Risk

Abstract

Get full access to this article

View all access options for this article.

References

Shufelt

, Bairey Merz

, Yang

et al. Red versus white wine as a nutritional aromatase inhibitor in premenopausal women: A pilot study. J Womens Health, 2012; 21,3:281–284.

International Agency for Research on Cancer. Working Group on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans. Alcohol consumption and ethyl carbamate. IARC Monogr Eval Carcinog Risks Hum, 2010; 96:1–1428.

Hamajima

, Hirose

, Tajima

et al. Alcohol, tobacco and breast cancer—Collaborative reanalysis of individual data from 53 epidemiological studies, including 58,515 women with breast cancer and 95,067 women without the disease. Br J Cancer, 2002; 87:1234–1245.

Rehm

, Baliunas

, Borges

GLG

et al. The relation between different dimensions of alcohol consumption and burden of disease: An overview. Addiction, 2010; 105:817–843.

Abraham

, Balbo

, Crabb

, Brooks

. Alcohol metabolism in human cells causes DNA damage and activates the Fanconi anemia-breast cancer susceptibility (FA-BRCA) DNA damage response network. Alcohol Clin Exp Res, 2011; 35:2113–2120.