In Case You Haven't Heard…

Most people have probably heard by now that alcohol is a major risk factor for cancer, one of the top preventable risk factors, in fact. According to the 2024 edition of the American Association for Cancer Research's Cancer Progress Report , while cancer has gone down, preventable causes such as excessive alcohol use will results in more than two million new cases being diagnosed in the U.S. this year. The tobacco lesson has been well‐learned. Now it's time for alcohol — excessive use is now the top modifiable risk factor for cancer. In 2019, 5.4% of all cancer cases diagnosed in the U.S. in 2019 were attributable to alcohol use.