Scientists blow the whistle on alarmingly common habit proven breast cancer in women – as a survivor says she is ‘still angry’, nobody warned her of the risk

‘You have a chest cancer. ‘

There are few sentences for a woman to hear from her doctor, although the disease has become alarmingly common with one in eight diagnosed at a certain moment in their lives.

For many, the most common question in exchange is “Why I?”

Although the diagnosis may seem randomly randomly for those who have always kept away from the lifestyle factors that are known to contribute to the growth of breast cancer, those who have been less careful may remain painful about whether they have done this in one way or another.

One of those women is Corrine Barraclough, a former former magazine editor who now works in rehabilitation.

While she was a drinker alcohol Her life ended almost a number of times.

There were several occasions that she woke up after was black, not sure how she got home, or what had happened in the intervening hours during her night out.

There was also the time that she fell a staircase from a staircase and her front teeth hit out.

And then, in the handles of alcohol driven depressionShe once drank bleach.

But as she bravely wrote in one Recent column for DailyMail+It would be seven years after she became sober that alcohol made the most determined attempt on her life.

“I felt a hard lump in my right breast,” she writes.

‘I went for a mammogram, was swollen for biopsy and saw a series of specialists. I was diagnosed with 2 breast cancer at the age of 48. ‘

Corrine believes that the cancer is caused by her drink and points to an overwhelming amount of evidence, not just linking drinks and breast cancer, but proves that it is an important cause of the disease.

Alcohol is the most important change of breast cancer in premenopausal women

In 2019, researchers from the University of New South Wales discovered that more than 10,000 breast cancer cases would be due to regular alcohol consumption in the coming decade.

The large partnership investigation led by Unsw’s Center for Big Data Research in Health was published in the International Journal of Cancer. It brought six Australian cohort studies, including more than 200,000 women and evaluated which share of premenopausal and postmenopausal breast cancers could be prevented by changing current behavior.

Assistantary teacher Maarit Laaksons, now at the University of Sydney, was one of the authors of the study and says it was the first to evaluate the bandage between alcohol and breast cancer with the help of the most up -to -date information about how often the risk factors are (eg alcohol consumption) are currently, as well as two of them, and they are to be able to evalate and they are to be able to evalate and they are to be able to evalate, and are in conflicts and are to be able to evalate, and are in conformaties, and are to be able to evalate and are in conformaties and are in conformaties, and are to be able to evalate, and are in conformaties, and are in conformaties and are in conformaties, and are in conflicts of Canaten, and are in conformaties, and are in conformaties, and are in conflicts of Canaten. Typing of Canus days’).

‘Alcohol has been demonstrated Cause breast cancer, both in premenopausal and postmenopausal women‘Laaksons tells Daily Mail Australia.

“Our studies showed that alcohol consumption is the leading change of breast cancer in premenopausal women in Australia, and the second leading changeable change of breast cancer in postmenopausal women after being overweight and obesity.”

Laaksoons explains that if Australian women did not drank alcohol, this would probably have the biggest impact on reducing breast cancer cases in premenopausal women.

‘Twelve-point-six percent of the cases may be reduced [in premenopausal women] And a significant impact in postmenopausal women, with 6.6 percent of cases that may be reduced, “she says.

And here the research is particularly worrying: women do not even have to consume a considerable amount of alcohol to increase their risk of breast cancer.

‘No safe level of alcohol consumption’

“With regard to most cancers, the increase in cancer risk with regard to alcohol consumption is often seen in people who consume two or more standard alcoholic beverages per day,” explains Laaksons.

‘Breast cancer, however, is unique because it has been shown that there is no safe level of alcohol consumption when it comes to breast cancer, because each level of consumption significantly increases your risk of breast cancer.

‘This is also what we saw in our studies, especially with regard to breast cancer in premenopausal women. Therefore, when it comes to breast cancer, the safest recommendation would be not to consume alcohol at all. ‘

But what about all those studies that connect a glass of red wine a day to a greater health than people who do not drink at all?

“It is true that there have been many studies that show what favorable results appear to be of small quantities (ie ‘a glass of wine per day’) of alcohol consumption, especially with regard to cardiovascular disease,” explains Laaksen.

‘Here you can favor those people who consume small amounts of alcohol with apparently a lower risk than people who do not consume alcohol at all.

‘However, there is an important methodological problem that many studies have not been able to tackle. Alcohol consumption is usually requested when the study started and the questions are about alcohol consumption about how much that person is drinking at that time.

“This means that the group of people who do not drink alcohol, usually includes lifelong withdrawals and those who have drunk alcohol in the past but have stopped.”

In other words, the problem with many of these studies (who received a large level of publicity and interest from both the alcohol industry and drinkers who want to justify their lifestyle choices) is that ‘not – Drinking’ cohort comprises people who may have to stop drinking for health reasons – which means they had already suffered the damage.

Laaksoons says that in studies Doing Keep this distinction in consideration, it is the lifelong abstinence that have the lowest risk of death and illness.

“I think it is risky to promote health benefits of alcohol consumption, even in small doses,” she adds, “because there are also diseases, such as breast cancer, where there is a quantity of harmful and the safest option would not be to drink.”

Laaksoons is of the opinion that alcohol should come in the same way as smoking with warning labels, and adds: “I think if alcohol was invented today, it would not be legal.”

‘Big alcohol’ has a lot to answer

Corrine, which has now been ‘Ned’ after September 2022 treatment and a double breast amputation (no proof of illness), is of the opinion that stopping drinking when she finally saved her life.

“I believe that if I had still drunk, I would not have been vigilant enough about my health to realize that something was wrong until it was too late,” she says.

‘I had faith in my sobriety before I fell ill, but now I am more steadfast than ever. There is nothing like a serious fear of health to ensure that you want to take the best possible care for yourself.

“I am still angry about how normalized drinking in our society is,” she adds.

“” Big alcohol “has a lot to answer with ruthless advertisements, much of them is nowadays aimed at women. “

Although researchers insist that their studies on alcohol and breast cancer are not intended to blame women for their illness, they hope that the findings enable women to make betterInformed decisions about their health and understand that there are adjustable lifestyle factors that can reduce their risk.

“It makes no sense that I feel guilty, unfortunate or angry,” says Corrine.

‘I have to believe that everything I have experienced in life can be used to help someone else. That is what keeps me sober, even for today. ‘