Among U.S. adults with a history of cancer, 45.8% reported drinking alcohol in the past 30 days in both 2016 and 2024, while drinking declined among adults without cancer, according to a study in Cancer Causes & Control of nearly 4 million adults.
|Articles|January 19, 2023
Survivor Video Early Detection Saved My Life
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Martin Abrams lost his brother and sister to pancreatic cancer, so he got himself into a screening program.
A year later precancerous tissue was found and he had a distal pancreatectomy. His daughter Tova also undergoes screening because she has pancreatic cancer on both sides—a few years after her father’s surgery her mother was diagnosed with the same disease.
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