CNN.com - Drinking joins smoking as cancer risk - Jan 30, 2006

CNN.com - Drinking joins smoking as cancer risk - Jan 30, 2006: "LONDON, England (Reuters) -- Along with smoking and chronic infections, alcohol consumption is an important cause of several types of cancer, researchers said on Monday.

Excessive drinking raises the risk of cancer of the mouth, larynx, oesophagus, liver, colon and breast. It may also be linked with cancer of the pancreas and lung.

'Alcohol is underestimated as a cause of cancer in many parts of the world,' said Dr Paolo Boffetta of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in Lyon, France."