WHO: Alcohol one of the biggest risk factors for breast cancer

More than 10% of alcohol-attributable cancer cases in the European Region arise from drinking one bottle of beer (500ml) or two small glasses of wine (100ml each) every day

Alcohol consumption is one of the biggest risk factors for breast cancer, causing seven of every 100 new cases in Europe, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said.

Every day, there are 1,579 new cases of breast cancer diagnosed in the European Region, which has the highest rate of the disease of all other WHO regions.