India, Sept. 5 -- Cancer deaths linked to alcohol consumption in the United States have more than doubled over the past three decades, according to a new study, even as overall cancer mortality in the country fell by roughly a third over the same period.

The research, led by scientists at the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and published in The Lancet Regional Health - Americas, found that annual alcohol-attributable cancer deaths rose from 11,361 in 1990 to 23,126 in 2023.

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