Drinking Booze in Your Teens Might Have Increased Your Risk of Breast Cancer

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Drinking Booze in Your Teens Might Have Increased Your Risk of Breast Cancer

• by Judy Molland
• September 7, 2013

"Now researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that mothers who had drunk around two units of alcohol a day, or the equivalent of one glass of wine, in the decade after their periods began were 34 percent more likely to develop breast cancer than those who did not drink during the same period.

Given that binge drinking is a growing problem amongst women, and young women in particular, this is alarming news."

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