Breast cancer in the media
https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/pm/middle-age-women-ignoring-risk-between-alcohol-and-breast-cancer/10813442
Forum Discussion
No matter what did or didn't cause it that ship has long sailed. It is no longer relevant to our situation so why worry about how it got there.
No one can say for definite what causes it and it's highly doubtful that it is one thing on it's own. Otherwise people who don't drink wouldn't get BC and we all know that's not true. Why can some people drink, take drugs and flog their bodies for a lot of their young lives never have any issues and the next person does everything right and still ends up with it???
Who knows whether or not the people in the studies had any other risk factors apart from alcohol alone.
Media will take a headliine and run with it. It's also very easy to grab a part of a study and make a headline around it.
For example.
The headline for this study could read "Teenage drinking linked to breast cancer"
Alcohol consumption during adolescence and early adulthood may have a greater adverse effect on risk of proliferative benign breast disease as compared with alcohol drinking in late adult years.
Dietary exposure to ethanol during puberty – but not ethanol exposures after lactation – induces morphologic changes in mouse mammary glands that predispose to breast cancer development.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4299758/
Personally I like this one better.....think I'm going to run with this LOL ..
" Alcohol consumption stops breast cancer recurrence"
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6015986/
Among women with adjuvant hormone therapy, both moderate and heavy alcohol consumption were associated with better breast cancer-free survival (HR, 0.69, 95% CI, 0.51–0.93 and HR, 0.74, 95% CI, 0.57–0.96, respectively). Drinking any amount of alcohol as compared to none was associated with better breast cancer-free survival (HR, 0.71; 95% CI, 0.57–0.87). There was no significant interaction between alcohol consumption and adjuvant hormone therapy with either of the exposure modeling approaches (p-interaction > 0.05).
No one can say for definite what causes it and it's highly doubtful that it is one thing on it's own. Otherwise people who don't drink wouldn't get BC and we all know that's not true. Why can some people drink, take drugs and flog their bodies for a lot of their young lives never have any issues and the next person does everything right and still ends up with it???
Who knows whether or not the people in the studies had any other risk factors apart from alcohol alone.
Media will take a headliine and run with it. It's also very easy to grab a part of a study and make a headline around it.
For example.
The headline for this study could read "Teenage drinking linked to breast cancer"
Alcohol consumption during adolescence and early adulthood may have a greater adverse effect on risk of proliferative benign breast disease as compared with alcohol drinking in late adult years.
Dietary exposure to ethanol during puberty – but not ethanol exposures after lactation – induces morphologic changes in mouse mammary glands that predispose to breast cancer development.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4299758/
Personally I like this one better.....think I'm going to run with this LOL ..
" Alcohol consumption stops breast cancer recurrence"
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6015986/
Among women with adjuvant hormone therapy, both moderate and heavy alcohol consumption were associated with better breast cancer-free survival (HR, 0.69, 95% CI, 0.51–0.93 and HR, 0.74, 95% CI, 0.57–0.96, respectively). Drinking any amount of alcohol as compared to none was associated with better breast cancer-free survival (HR, 0.71; 95% CI, 0.57–0.87). There was no significant interaction between alcohol consumption and adjuvant hormone therapy with either of the exposure modeling approaches (p-interaction > 0.05).