Alcohol cessation and breast cancer risk stratified by hormone receptor status
Mary Beth Terry, Dallas R. English, Jo L. Freudenheim, Béatrice Lauby-Secretan, Susan M. Gapstur · 2024
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Mary Beth Terry and co-authors ask whether quitting alcohol lowers breast cancer risk, in this 2024 study. Drinking is an established cause of breast cancer, but the effect of stopping is less clear. The team pooled data from three long-term cohort studies and one case-control study, splitting cancers by whether they respond to estrogen.
Compared with women who kept drinking, those who quit had a lower risk of the estrogen-linked form of the disease. No clear change appeared for the other form. The authors note the numbers are modest and call for research on how long a person must abstain before the benefit grows.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Mary Beth Terry, Dallas R. English, Jo L. Freudenheim, Béatrice Lauby-Secretan, Susan M. Gapstur |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 19 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |