Daily Mail: Drinking epidemic ‘fuels surge in cancer’

Posted by Kendall Harmon

Round-the-clock drinking and cut-price alcohol are to blame for an 'appalling' rise in cancers, experts warned today.

Cases of cancer of the mouth have gone up by half in the past decade, with a 43 per cent rise in liver tumours. There have also been big rises in breast and colorectal cancer.

Many experts are blaming alcohol consumption, which has doubled in the UK since the 1950s and has been fuelled by Labour's decision to relax licensing laws.

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Filed under: * Culture-WatchAlcoholism* International News & CommentaryEngland / UK

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