Medical News: Heavy Drinking Boosts Prostate Cancer Risk - in Urology, Prostate Cancer from MedPage Today

Regular, heavy consumption of alcohol increased the risk of high-grade prostate cancer and blunted the chemopreventive effect of finasteride, data from the Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial (PCPT) showed. Men who consumed at least 50 grams of alcohol (at least four drinks) daily doubled their risk of high-grade prostate cancer, Zhihong Gong, PhD, of the University of California San Francisco, and colleagues reported online in Cancer. full story: Medical News: Heavy Drinking Boosts Prostate Cancer Risk - in Urology, Prostate Cancer from MedPage Today