(Chicago, IL) — Alcohol-related cancer deaths have doubled in the U.S. over the last three decades.
In 1990, there were just under 12-thousand such deaths but that number skyrocketed to 23-thousand deaths in 2021. The study, out of the University of Miami’s Comprehensive Cancer Center, shows the increase is being driven by deaths in men 55 and older. This comes as the American Cancer Society notes that cancer deaths in American fell about 35-percent during the 30-year period studied. Researchers studied seven alcohol-related cancers, those of the breast, liver, throat, voice box and mouth, plus colorectal and esophageal cancer.
The World Health Organization labeled alcohol a carcinogen in 1987 saying that no amount is safe.
