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Jen.
>> Thank you very much Zach so
many factors can increase your
risk of developing breast
cancer, some like genetics, you
can’t be helped right. Others
however can be altered
alcohol falls into that latter
category in fact a new study
shows the link between breast
cancer and drinking alcohol
really nice to be made more
obvious at a recent study
estimates the drinking a bottle
of wine has the same overall cancer risk as smoking 10 cigarettes a week.
Researchers surveyed a group of
women undergoing breast cancer
screening or treatment and
found that only 20% of them
knew that alcohol is considered
a risk factor and only 49% of
Healthcare staff
Healthcare staff, a survey
identified alcohol as a
respecter joining me now to
discuss the statistics is
doctor Scott Ackerman of the
Ackerman cancer Center good
morning to you thank you in
here, so we were talking about
this the whole bottle of wine
equivalent to 10 cigarettes a
week and while 10 cigarettes a
week for someone who has never
smoked in their entire life
seems like a lot that’s not
that much considering that many
people smoke more than one pack
a day.
>> But certainly I’m not an
advocate of tobacco use at all
but to put things in
perspective. A bottle wine is
the Queen of half a pack, a
week 10 saying it’s only half a
pack a week. If smokers only
spoke after back a week.
We would have this we would
have the should have a lung
cancer and breast cancer other
cancers as well.
What we’re concerned about he
was smoking people smoke a pack
a day. So I want
to just we have put the brakes
a little bit about a one-week
is really OK. The bottom
line today is not and
that’s why we’ll talk about
people would be home watching
us a way that you’re taking a
bottle of wine that does it
seem like a whole lot of 7 day
period, okay, right.
>> OK you’re not it at
increased risk then unless
you’re drinking a lot more.
Let’s talk a little bit then
about what the risk is because
it’s interesting alcohol
consumption is a cause of
5% to 11% of all breast cancer
cases, but this is a lot out.
For the study first the studies
are interesting in that it
looked at 200 women at this
Hospital in England outside
London.
>> And they and they question
them about risk factors for
breast cancer. And it turned
out that only 20% of women knew
that Apple at some service
specter of breast cancer.
It’s a small study
and see the critical that, but
it’s consistent with studies
have been done here in the
States they’ve been sponsored
by the Marin cancer Society,
the show that about only 30% of
women
in America, realize it but that
look alcohol is related to
breast cancer, and also you
said earlier that only half 49%
half of health care workers.
>> Even health care worker who
should know right over this
health care workers involved in
breast cancer, only have a
health care workers realize
that alcohol does factor
in too contributing to a
woman’s increase risk of breast
cancer. So your question was
how much alcohol
and this 11% or 15% of breast
cancer so see without call.
That’s true. The breast cancers
that we see we can
try to attribute certain
respects to those
many women don’t have any
respect respect are the
respective might be genetic.
But about 10 to 15%. A breast
cancers are related to.
Consumption. And the amount we
say it’s safe to drink a day
because alcohol is okay, there
are other health benefits of
alcohol, Shirley reduce your
risk of stroke
of cardio of coronary artery
disease and cardiovascular
disease. But what you get more
than 2 or 3 drinks a day as a
woman. It is your risk of
breast cancer. No also cut your
risk for men and women of some
of the cancers as well.
Excessive drinking, it’s
interesting because there’s
also yacht you when we spoke
with you yesterday that
consider increasing your full
late or your B
vitamin intake.
>> Now that doesn’t reverse the
effects obviously of drinking
alcohol but can that kind of
help deter breast cancer.
Well, it’s good to have.
>> The right amount of vitamins
in your in
your system after too much
alcohol consumption can break
down a liver function and also
that would affect
your a levels of of these vital
the B vitamins.
So certainly people to drink.
We recommend they they take
been be to counteract the
effect that the live would have
been diminishing.
One is level of vitamin B and
of course we always want to
remind our viewers as we do
every time you hear talking
about specifically breast
cancer about health screenings,
they are vital to Perth and
particularly depending upon
your age making sure you’re
having your yearly mammogram.
>> Right we again.
>> Recommend that when they
have their annual mammogram.
The first time between ages of
40 of a 40 of 45. Maybe a
little younger, if they’re high
risk they 35 Earth in the 30th
year Iris which is family
history of breast cancer of
African American. And we also
recommend that women know the
risk factors and one thing that
I advocate one thing that we do
in our office is when
women come in for their first
mammogram with us we go through
is a little educational session
with them explain to them the
risk factors because again the
first man and that’s a great
step minimize your chance of
dying of breast cancer. So is
educate women about alcohol
about tobacco use about
obesity about. High fat diets
and those things of all
contribute to a woman’s