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This page links to content about alcohol and cancer.

There is an undoubted link between alcohol and some cancers. Drinking alcohol can increase your risk of mouth cancer, pharyngeal cancer (upper throat), oesophageal cancer (food pipe), laryngeal cancer (voice box), breast cancer, bowel cancer and liver cancer.

Every year, alcohol causes about 6% of cancer deaths in the UK, killing over 9,000 people. Along with smoking, alcohol causes the vast majority of mouth and oesophageal cancers. In the last decade, mouth cancer has become much more common and this may be because of higher levels of drinking.

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