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Alcohol and prostate cancer

Men who drink two or more alcoholic drinks a day are 20 per cent more likely to get prostate cancer, the first research to link the two has found.

The risk is likely to confuse Australian men who have previously been told that one to two drinks a day, particularly of red wine, can protect them from heart disease.

But researchers from the National Drug Research Institute said a review of 35 studies on alcohol and its link to prostate cancer showed the risk increased for men the more they drank.

Professor Chikritzhs, an author of the study,  said previous research into the link had either concluded there was no effect or that the outcomes were too mixed. She said men who are confused about balancing the risks and the stated benefits of alcohol should err on the side of caution.