Experts Warn of Link Between Drinking Alcohol and Getting Cancer

A new report from the American Association for Cancer Research emphasizes a cancer risk that its authors say is being overlooked: alcohol.

Overall, cancer death rates in the US have declined by 33 percent between 1991 and 2021 — equal to about 4.1 million deaths that were avoided. Lower rates of smoking and improvements in early detection, prevention, and treatments of cancer all contributed to that decline.