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To: paret who wrote (716110)	12/1/2005 4:46:15 AM
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Alcohol may help cancers grow 18 December 2004 Andy Coghlan Magazine issue 2478 Adding alcohol to cancerous tumours increases their growth rate, animal experiments reveal, though it has not been found to initiate cancers ALCOHOL may accelerate the growth and spread of existing cancers as well as causing certain types of tumour. The finding may also explain why heavy drinkers often have red noses. There are well-established links between heavy drinking and various forms of cancer, especially if people smoke as well. The main organs affected are those which bear the brunt of the alcohol exposure: the mouth, throat, stomach and liver. How alcohol makes cancer start and spread has been a mystery, although some experts think that the culprits are substances formed as alcohol breaks down, such as acetaldehyde. To find out if alcohol also affects existing cancers, Jian-Wei Gu's team at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, Mississippi, injected chick embryos in eggs with human fibrosarcoma cells, like those which cause bone and muscle cancers. Then he injected salty water into half the eggs and alcohol into the rest, at .... newscientist.com

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