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Health Check: Alcohol and cancer

29/08/2012

Alcohol and cancer

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Alcohol and cancer risk, and the dangers of painkiller misuse

Claudia Hammond looks at the links between alcohol consumption and certain cancers, and misuse of the pain-killing drug, tramadol.

ALCOHOL AND CANCER
Claudia Hammond looks at the links between alcohol consumption and certain cancers, and talks to Dr Silvia Balbo, a researcher in United States, whose new findings help to explain why alcohol can increase your risk of cancer of the mouth, and possibly the oesophagus.  

TRAMADOL MISUSE
There’s also a report from Gaza on the growing incidence of tramadol misuse among young men in the Palestinian territory.  Tramadol is a prescription pain-killer and Adam Mackridge, a senior lecturer in pharmacy practice at Liverpool John Moores University, talks about the drug and the current knowledge of its potential for misuse.

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