{"id":3469,"date":"2009-08-04T22:52:13","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T20:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=3469"},"modified":"2015-10-17T08:38:16","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T06:38:16","slug":"heavy-drinking-linked-to-increased-cancer-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=3469","title":{"rendered":"Heavy drinking linked to increased cancer risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian scientists have provided more evidence of a link between alcohol consumption and an increased risk of cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Those who drank the most had a sevenfold increased risk of oesophageal (food pipe) cancer; an 80 per cent higher risk of bowel cancer; and a 50 per cent heightened risk of lung cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Benedetti described the findings, which appear in the journal Cancer Detection and Prevention, as &#8220;astounding&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/19588541?dopt=Abstract\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian scientists have provided more evidence of a link between alcohol consumption and an increased risk of cancer. Those who drank the most had a sevenfold increased risk of oesophageal (food pipe) cancer; an 80 per cent higher risk of bowel cancer; and a 50 per cent heightened risk of lung cancer. Dr Benedetti described [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3469"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4298,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469\/revisions\/4298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}