A study published in the medical journal Gut by a group of scientists Netherlands, reveals that alcohol raises the risk of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma, a tumor located in the upper esophagus.
The report also claims that smokers also have an increased risk of cancer of the esophagus and stomach, much higher. A study for 16 years over 120,000 people between 55 and 70 years confirms that smoking increases the likelihood of gastric cancer and esophageal cancer.
The risk varies between 60% and 263% among cigarette smokers compared to nonsmokers. Alcohol also affects, to a lesser extent, the study said.
People who drank the equivalent of about two or three glasses of wine a day were five times more likely to develop tumors than abstainers.
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