Annual deaths associated with alcohol in the United States have doubled over the past three decades, as it increased from less than 12,000 a year in 1990 to more than 23,000 a year in 2021.
The authors of the study said that the increase was driven by deaths in men 55 and above.
It comes to death in the United States of cancer in general by about 35 % during the same time period, according to data from American Cancer Association.
The results will be presented next week at the annual meeting of the American Association of Clinical Oncology in Chicago and has not yet been published in the corporate review magazine.
“This is death instead of developing a disease. We can treat a lot of cancer, and we improve in that, but this really drives home that people die from cancer due to alcohol,” said Jin Furgo, a medical professor at the Samuel Ocean Institute of Cancer at the Seedbar-Seni Medical Center, who did not participate in the research. For comprehensive cancer at the Sidrar-Skyce Medical Center, which did not participate in the research.
The study focused on seven alcohol -related cancers: breast, liver, colon, rectum, throat, patience, mouth and esophagus. Alcohol is not responsible for every case of this cancer, but it has been proven to be a driving factor in a percentage of it.
“When people think about alcohol, they do not necessarily think about it as a carcinogen like them to do tobacco,” said Dr. Michael Segel, a professor of public health at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Tafs, who did not participate in the study.
But it is. Once in the body, alcohol collapses to Acetaldehyde A carcinogen also found in tobacco smoke. Alcohol is harmful to DNA and makes it easy on the mouth and throat absorbing other carcinogens.
International Cancer Research Agency, a branch of the World Health Organization, Classified alcohol Cancer in 1987. Research At that time, link drinking with head and neck cancers (including mouth, throat, sound box, esophagus) and liver cancer. It has since been linked to the breast and the colon and the colon.
A report from January from the former American surgeon said that alcoholic beverages should come with cancer warning stickers. According to who, there There is no safe amount From alcohol consumption.
The new research found that in 1991, 2.5 % of all male cancer deaths and 1.46 % in women were linked to alcohol. In 2021, these percentages rose to 4.2 % and 1.85 %, respectively.
During the same time period, men saw a 56 % increase in deaths from alcohol -related cancer. For women, approximately 8 % was.
“It was not surprising that it was higher in men, but it was certain that it was surprising how high in men against women,” said Dr. Chenemi Jani, his colleague in the science of blood and oncology at the Sylvester Cancer Center at Miami University. Historically, men tend to start drinking alcohol early in life, as Jani and his team pointed out.
However, sex -based drinking habits appear to be transformed. In recent years, an increasing number of women have become drinking wine, and more young women who drink more than men, research He found.
The deaths caused by the seven alcohols among men increased in 47 states, and in 16 states for women. In both groups, deaths between people living in New Mexico – nearly 60 % for men and 18 % for women. Oklahoma came to men, Tennessee, for women, second.
Washington has witnessed the largest decrease in men, Massachusetts and New York for women. Uta has remained the country with the least alcohol -related cancer.
Cancer deaths were higher among people 55 and above. In men in this age group, alcohol -related cancer deaths increased by more than 1 % every year between 2007 and 2021.
Jani said: “Perhaps the cause of cancer may not affect immediately at a younger age, but as drinking continues with your age, this cancer has a cumulative effect on the body,” Jani said.
Of all the seven types of alcohol -related cancer, liver cancers, colon, rectum and esophageal were generally the most bloody in 2021. In men specifically, liver cancer deaths were the most common. For women, breast cancer was.
“We know that even small amounts of alcohol can affect the breast tissue,” said Figueedo.
Jani said that the next stage of the research should disturb how the different ethnic and ethnic groups are affected by alcohol differently when it comes to the risks of cancer.
Jani said: “The enzyme that flips alcohol is less in some ethnic groups than others, so the acetaldehyde, carcinogenic in alcohol, is higher in these people.”
The consumption of alcohol in the United States reached its climax in the late 1970s and decreased until the late 1990s, data from National Institute on alcohol and alcohol addiction Show. Drinking also increased sharply during the epidemic, as did alcohol -related deaths.
Siegel said that messages about alcohol need to switch from drinking responsibly to ensure that people understand the health effects that moderate drinking can constitute.
“We do not tell people that they cannot drink them. Everyone has the autonomy to make their own decisions,” Sigil said. “But we want to make sure that it is well well based on facts instead of misconceptions.”
