Women, Drinking and Cancer.

[rhythmaning]

There have been lots of reports linking an increase in a range of cancers in women with drinking even small amounts of alcohol - a glass or two of wine a day.

This must have been worrying.

The blog Pyjamas in Bananas has taken the data and analysed it (via @BenGoldacre on Twitter - he runs the blog Bad Science).

To quote from their analysis:

I think it is clear that the difference between a drink a day and less than 2 drinks a week (this was the reference group because non-drinkers often includes ex-alcoholics or those who have given up because they are already sick) is less than convincing.

Looking at their analysis, it seems to make sense. It is so long since I have done that kind of stats that I couldn't challenge it, but based on the graphs they present, any increase in risk at low level of alcohol is not statistically significant.

I'll drink to that!