Drinklessforyourbreasts

10/29/2022

It's a fact that alcohol causes more cases of breast cancer every year than the BRCA gene mutation. While we can't do anything to change our genes, we can do something about our drinking.

10/21/2022

So we’ve known for over 30 years that alcohol is a carcinogen and increases the risk of breast cancer. But what does it actually do to our bodies when we consume it drink it? How does it increase the risk of breast cancer? Here, we break it down into three different ways.

10/14/2022

To kick off , Priscilla Martinez, PhD, chatted with Shikha Donde on October 5th in a broadcast to interested Uber employees about alcohol’s risk of breast cancer—providing information on how alcohol affects our bodies so cisgender females at Uber can make informed choices about if and how much they drink. Props to Uber headquarters in San Francisco for providing the opportunity to help us spread the word to .

10/01/2022

On this first day of , we want to help spread the message that alcohol is a risk factor for breast cancer. We think all women have a right to know. So, check the facts. Tell a friend. Decide for yourself.

05/12/2022

Earlier in the year, DLFYB's own Dr. Priscilla Martinez spoke alongside a panel of experts to discuss communication approaches to increase awareness of the link between alcohol and cancer. Click the link in our bio to watch the full video that is now streaming on the National Cancer Institute's website.

05/09/2022

Are you thinking about cutting back or even stopping drinking altogether? This great article from Fortune includes a few relaxation tips and ways to decompress after a long day — without alcohol:

Finding other ways to relax might be better for your long-term wellbeing.

04/29/2022

From a social justice lens, Paths to Prevention brings together science and community wisdom to look at 23 breast cancer risks, including drinking alcohol, exposures to toxic chemicals, workplace exposures, diet and physical activity, and the impact of racism and poverty. Read. Learn. Share.

Click the link in our bio to read the full report by .

04/20/2022

"We cannot ignore it any longer: We need to talk about drinking during the pandemic."

Alcohol-related deaths have surged in recent years. We need to focus on excessive drinking.

04/08/2022

We have talked a lot about the increased breast cancer risk associated with alcohol use, but you might be curious to know just how many cisgender women are affected each year. So, we did the math.

Between 4-10% of breast cancer cases each year are thought to be due to drinking alcohol. We used the middle of that range—7%—and multiplied it by 281,550, the estimated number of new breast cancer cases in 2021.

That means that last year, in the U.S. alone, 19,709 breast cancer cases were linked to alcohol!

In our bio, we have listed links to the Liu et al. study that informed this post and the National Cancer Institutes webpage where we got the yearly estimate for 2021.

04/07/2022

"It's something that we need to talk a lot more about."

Research shows that drinking alcohol increases the risk of breast and other cancers.

03/18/2022

You might have heard that alcohol is a Group 1 carcinogen. But what exactly does it mean to be a Group 1 carcinogen? Well, in short, it means multiple respected international agencies have looked at years of robust scientific evidence and determined that all substances in this classification carry the highest cancer risk. That puts alcohol in the same category as arsenic, asbestos, and to***co (yikes!).

The good news is that the more we understand these risks, the more power we have to make changes to protect our health