Alcohol and breast cancer
Alcohol and breast cancer From my reading I have gleaned that ER+ cancers, at least, have more chance of developing if a woman drinks alcohol. The amount seems ( to me?!) small: one or less units per day. It seems to be something to do with creating high levels of circulating oestrogen, the Baddy for us.
Well, there’s no point, perhaps, in shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted so I have not given up drinking wine but feel guilty about it. What do others think/do ? There’s enough to make us feel guilty, I know, with housework being lauded as a preventative and whatnot but I’d like to know what other ladies think.
Thanks
Kitty x
Alcohol and breast cancer Hi Kitty
The advice I have been given by my onc and bc nurse are to enjoy my red wine in moderation (14 units a week) so I do!!!
Have a nice weekend
Love Lesley xx
Cheers !!! Hello Kitty
Yes advised the same by Onc at fisrt meeting, quite OK to carry on drinking if I fancied it, even the chemo nurse gave out the same advise when she read my prescription.
This drink and weight issue really makes me mad at times, in the end I justify it by saying does every lady needing to attend a slimming class or AA meeting have BC.
Have your wine and enjoy it
Debbie
mine’s a pint of champagne
Mole
I pretty much gave up after diagnosis, but I did have a few drinks over the festive season. I was only really a white wine drinker but I don’t really want to take too many risks for the future. I tested as HER2 positive recently, don’t know if alcohol has anything to do with this.
Kitty the housework thing makes me want to scream! Where are the women who don’t do it?
As for the booze- br ca ladies are being punished more than enough- if a drink helps - brightens a gal up- why not?
It really sounds as if the puritans have taken over- scrub the floor, black lead the grate and take the blue ribbon oath- pah!
Everything you enjoy is good for you, dilly
whose round is it? So not only is life bleak enough, I am to give up the vino and get the hoover out. No thanks.
Laine
sorry life is to short… … to be worrying about what we are drinking. I can understand if they are talking about people who are totally abusing drink, but for me personally this is still one of my pleasures and even although i am highly oestregen postive I still enjoy my wine… or beer…
Watched the diet doctors last night. They were dealing with an overweight guy who drank a lot. They said that excessive drinking can cause a hormone imbalance i.e elevated oestrogen (even in men) which is why men who are heavy drinkers end up with boobs. .
The thing to remember is “excessive”. Like anything, if you stay within reasonable amounts and recommended limits, you should be alright.
Geraldine
I don’t drink a lot but my usual tipple is red wine. I drink well under the recommended limit. I had always been told that red wine in moderation can be good for your heart and circulation, and since the women in my family have a history of strokes I was more concerned about that! I wasn’t to know that breast cancer would catch me before heart disease did the job 
If you read all these articles and slavishly try to lead the “perfect” lifestyle you would worry yourself to a frazzle and cause unnecessary stress. Not to mention, a few months down the line someone else will publish research that contradicts the first lot!
wheres my glass? I have to agree with the rest of the posts here - although my bc was not hormone receptive I worried initially about whether drinking would hamper my bodys’ ability to deal with the treatment.
On relfection and with a large glass of wine in front of me I decided that not drinking would hamper my ability to get through it!! (I’m not an alcofrolic though, honest!!).
I have continued to enjoy a tipple fairly regularly. Probably a bit too much champers on christmas eve but as other wise ladies have already said on this thread, we have enough to deal with and life is too short!!
Cheers everyone x
I like a tipple I have always liked a drink and it did cross my mind that it may have contributed to my bc, which is hormone receptive. On the other hand I kept my mobile in my breast pocket for a year befor dx, I used to feel a buzzing even when I had no jacket on. Anyway back to the point, I was really worried about my liver scan(REALLY WORRIED) but it was fine. I have cut down on the drinking alot, I had always said I would when I hit 40.
I am sure if my onc thought I should stop she would tellme. All my bloods have been fine and if its going to come back Ihink it will come all by its self.
During the main treatment though I couldnt even face anything alcoholic for weeks.
The only thing is now I cant hold my drink, Im babbling nonsense after a few glasses. I give all my friends strict instructions to put me in a taxi if I get too bad.
Cheers girls
i wonder if anyone else is the same, since being on tamoxifen and zoladex for 13 months now, i cannot get drunk at all. Believe you me i have tried (many a time) but it just aint happening… just wondering is it just me, because I had no problem before tamox. or zoladex.
alcohol and b.c. I am teetotal I never could like the taste and I tried believe me when i was young .I have highest no 8 oestrogen and progesterone so where does that leave me
I blame all soya i have swallowed for past 4 yrs but have no proof I read it was good for my osteoporosis . talk about confusing then we have dairy like soya from professor jane Plant and now housework
I was most active person all my life
I thimk I will stop reading until they have definite proof
Ann