Researchers looked at data on 87,000 women and 47,000 men in the Nurses’ Health Study and the Health Professionals Follow-up Study and found 1,801 cases of colon cancer. Researchers found that while family history and alcohol consumption resulted in an increased risk, they did not find a significant association between alcohol consumption and colon cancer among subjects without a positive family history.
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