Alcohol consumption and cancer in Canada (IMAGE)

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Alcohol consumption and cancer in Canada

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Alcohol drinking caused nearly 7,000 cases of cancer in Canada in 2020. Breast cancer made up almost 1 in 4 of the new cases attributable to alcohol.

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World Health Organization's (WHO) International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)

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