Alert for Ireland on cancers driven by alcohol

Between five and 10 individuals per 100,000 people in Ireland are developing cancer every year as a result of their alcohol use, according to the World Health Organisation. File picture

Between five and 10 individuals per 100,000 people in Ireland are developing cancer every year as a result of their alcohol use, according to the World Health Organisation.

It places Ireland on the second of four tiers in Europe for incidence of “alcohol-attributable cancers”.