alcohol and breast cancer reoccurence

hi there Deanne all due respect to you for giving up alcohol since your diagnosis, and I too could easily give it up all together and did quite fine without it during my treatment,  and you may very well correct in your assumptions, but I would be very careful about posting info like you have without the source of its whereabouts and as a nurse I have never read anything about alcohol being a group 1 carcinogenic and that alcohol of any consumption is a totally proven risk factor for breast cancer. There is evidence to say that excessive alcohol over a lifetime can lead to cirrhosis of the liver which then can  or may increase the risk of liver cancer or smoking has been proven to increase your chance of lung cancer but the research you talk about is inconclusive. As a health care professional we are encouraged to only read and review research that has been peer reviewed and from a reliable source, as I said I'm not saying yours is or isn't, but I don't think you should put the fear of god into every woman who chooses to have a glass of wine or two in moderation of course. Both my parents never drank or smoked and one died from endometrial cancer aged 69 and Dad from a rare neurological disease called Multi System Atrophy, and please don't think I'm having a dig because that is not my intention. Margie:)