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How does alcohol intake during your twenties contribute later to breast cancer?

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Unsettled : I am not persuaded there is a cause-and-effect relationship. Be this as it may, it is moot. Keep up breast cancer surveillance like anyone else. Look to the future, not the past. Leave others to make their own choices, and plan well for your own future. Best wishes.

Answered 2/25/2016

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