According to recent research conducted by the University of California, San Francisco, daily, heavy drinking may increase the risk of high-grade prostate cancer. Dr. Zhihong Gong, Ph.D., and researchers used data from more than 10,000 men participating in the Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial (PCPT) to study the effects of alcohol consumption.

The identified participants who reported heavy alcohol consumption (50 grams or more per day) and regular heavy drinking (four or more drinks per day on five or more days per week) and found that these participants were twice as likely to be diagnosed with high-grade prostate cancer.

Moderate alcohol consumption was not found to carry the same risk.

(Source: www.sciencedaily.com)

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