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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Marina Dunbar

Alcohol-related cancer deaths in US have more than doubled over three decades

A full pint of lager on a bar counter
Alcohol has long been classified as a Group 1 carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer. Photograph: SolStock/Getty Images

Alcohol-related cancer deaths in the US have more than doubled over three decades, with new research showing that just one drink per day could raise cancer risk and that the impacts extend far beyond liver cancer.

Researchers at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, part of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, analyzed more than three decades of Global Burden of Disease data. Their study, published in August in the Lancet Regional Health, found that annual cancer deaths attributed to alcohol climbed from 11,361 in 1990 to 23,126 in 2023.

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