MedPage Today January 3, 2025
— New report emphasizes greater public awareness, education
In a new report emphasizing the link between alcohol and cancer, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, MBA, calls for warnings on package labels similar to those required for cigarettes.
The warning label is one of several recommendations to increase public awareness of alcohol’s cancer risk and reduce the associated cancer burden.
“Alcohol is a well-established, preventable cause of cancer responsible for about 100,000 cases of cancer and 20,000 cancer deaths annually in the United States — greater than the 13,500 alcohol-associated traffic crash fatalities per year in the U.S. — yet, the majority of Americans are unaware of the risk,” Murthy said in a statement. “This advisory lays out steps we...
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