Alcohol consumption is a leading preventable cause of cancer in the U.S. The U.S. surgeon general issued an advisory on Friday warning of a link between alcohol consumption and cancer risk.

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"Given the conclusive evidence on the cancer risk from alcohol consumption and the Office of the Surgeon General's responsibility to inform the American public of the best available scientific ...

obesity and alcohol,” Dietz said. “It's quite appropriate and within character of the position to use the position as a bully pulpit to call to the attention of the American public issues ...

On Friday, the nation’s top health official, Dr. Vivek Murthy, issued an emphatic warning about the health dangers of drinking, drawing a direct link between alcohol consumption and cancer.

In a statement Friday, the doctors group said the label "will bolster awareness, improve health, and save lives" in the wake of "decades of compelling evidence" tying alcohol consumption to cancer.

We asked Vivek H. Murthy and other physicians these and other questions. Most people don’t know that alcohol consumption increases alcohol-related cancer risk, Murthy said. Alcohol is ...

“No safe amount of alcohol consumption for cancers can be established,” the W.H.O. reported in 2023. But a group of researchers noted in a study published in 2020 that only a quarter of the ...

Surgeon General Vivek Murthy said in his latest advisory that alcohol consumption is the third leading preventable cause of cancer in the US, following tobacco usage and obesity. He recommended ...