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Breast cancer's booze connection
Continue to the storyYet that one glass of wine - the pleasure of it, the taste of it and, most of all, the beloved ritual of it - is now under siege. The release last week of startling research on the link between drinking alcohol and getting breast cancer has sparked new fears in many women. According to the study conducted by the U.S. National Cancer Institute, the headlines blared, women who consumed less than one drink a day had a 7-per-cent increase in their risk of developing certain very common estrogen-fuelled breast cancers. Related Articles From the archives * Alcohol may boost breast cancer risk The Globe and Mail Take one or two drinks a day and your chances of getting these tumours increase 32 per cent, and three or more drinks boosts your risk 51 per cent.