Intl cancer agency wants bans of alcohol advertising

Between 30 and 50 per cent of cancers could be preventable, and according to the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) we're ignoring a big one. 

In up to five per cent of all cancers, alcohol consumption plays a role. But the director of IARC says we're not doing enough to drive home the risk. 

Guest/s

• Dr Elisabete Weiderpass, director of the International Agency for Research on Cancer of the World Health Organization 

References

• Cancers attributable to alcohol - IARC
• Alcohol: a major preventable cause of cancer (IARC Evidence Summary Brief No. 6)