The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
In females, this may be part of the reason why there's an increase in estrogen-related cancers. Breast cancer can be either estrogen-related or non-estrogen-related, there are other types of estrogen-related cancers outside of breast cancer, but it appears that one reason why alcohol increases the risk of breast cancer is because of this aromatization from, of testosterone, excuse me, to estrogen.
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Native comments, Twitter mentions, and Reddit threads about this claim — surfaced together so the conversation isn't fragmented across platforms.
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altered hormone levels may also explain the role of alcohol in cancer development and here there is a particular relevance to breast cancer alcohol appears to increase the levels of estrogen and enhance the activity of estrogen receptors that play a role in breast cancer development notably estrogen receptor activity may increase by up to 15 times higher than normal with alcohol use with alcohol being more strongly associated with estrogen receptor positive breast tumors