Sometimes people might talk about some alcoholic drinks are better or worse than others. But all types of alcohol increase the risk of cancer. Even in small amounts, the alcohol always causes damage our body.

According to the report by the U.S. Surgeon General, the link between drinking alcohol and developing cancer may come as a surprise to many people around the world. This report triggered a flurry of headlines about a risk that many people who used to ignore previously.

A cancer epidemiologist at the Rutgers Cancer Institute in New Brunswick, N.J, Elisa Bandera said, “One of the challenges with these studies is getting accurate information about drinking style and amount, and lifetime consumption of alcohol, the studies tend to rely on self-reporting of drinking”

Some analyses have combined data from multiple researches to report estimates of how many cases of cancer are tied to drinking alcohol. For example, alcohol contributed to an estimated about 54,000 cancer cases in women and about 42,000 in men.

Developing cancer in the esophagus is about 1.3 times as likely with light drinking, which the study defined as less than one drink a day, on average, than with not drinking. That grows to nearly five times as likely with heavy drinking, defined as more than four drinks a day, compared with not drinking. Esophagus cancer is at the high end of the relative risk spectrum. For female breast cancer, the risk was slightly elevated with light drinking and about 1.6 times as likely for heavy drinking compared with not drinking, researchers reported.

More you can cut down on alcohol the more you can reduce your risk of cancer.

Drinking less or not alcohol has lots of other health benefits, too. We can reduce your risk of accidents, high blood pressure, liver disease and other many more.

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Drinking alcohol causes different types of cancer like, breast cancer, bowel cancer, mouth cancer, throat cancer, esophagus cancer, larynx or pharynx cancer, liver cancer and so one. At the end, Alcohol is one of the most avoidable causes of cancer after smoking. We can reduce risk of cancer if we do not drink alcohol. The less we drink, the lower our risk of cancer.