Alcohol increases rectal cancer risk, but risk is smaller among regular wine drinkers
Regular drinkers significantly increase their risk of rectal cancer, but that risk is reduced if wine makes up a third or more of weekly consumption, suggests research in Gut. The findings are based on a population study of over 29,000 Danish men and women aged between 23 and 95. Their weekly intake of beer, wine, and spirits was assessed, as were other factors likely to influence bowel cancer risk, such as how much they smoked, weighed, and took regular exercise. Men were more likely than women to be heavy drinkers, and heavy drinkers were more likely to be smokers and to weigh more than light drinkers. During a monitoring period of almost 15 years, 411 cases of colon cancer and 202 cases