My homemade Concord Grape wine--now I don't feel so bad about drinking it!
The following recently was published on one of my lymphoma mailing lists...good news for the wine drinkers amongst us!
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Drinking wine may increase survival among non-Hodgkin'
April 21st, 2009
Pre-diagnostic wine consumption may reduce the risk of
death and relapse among non-Hodgkin'
epidemiology study presented at the American Association for Cancer
Research 100th Annual Meeting 2009.
Xuesong Han, the first author of the abstract and a doctoral candidate at
the Yale School of Public Health, said their findings would need to be
replicated before any public health recommendations are made, but the
evidence is becoming clearer that moderate consumption of wine has
numerous benefits.
"This conclusion is controversial, because excessive drinking has a
negative social and health impact, and it is difficult to define what is
moderate and what is excessive," said Han. "However, we are continually
seeing a link between wine and positive outcomes in many cancers."
This study was the first to examine the link among patients with
non-Hodgkin'
women with non-Hodgkin'
They found that those who drank wine had a 76 percent five-year survival
compared with 68 percent for non-wine drinkers. Further research found
five-year, disease-free survival was 70 percent among those who drank wine
compared with 65 percent among non-wine drinkers.
Beer and/or liquor consumption did not show a benefit.
The study team at Yale also looked at subgroups of lymphoma patients, and
found the strongest link between wine consumption and favorable outcomes
among patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. These patients had a 40
to 50 percent reduced risk of death, relapse or secondary cancer.
Researchers then conducted an analysis to examine the effect of wine
consumption among those who had drunk wine for at least the previous 25
years before diagnosis. Non-Hodgkin'
drinking wine for at least this long had a 25 to 35 percent reduced risk
of death, relapse or secondary cancer.
Those patients with large B-cell lymphoma had about 60 percent reduced
risk of death, relapse or secondary cancer if they had been drinking wine
for at least the previous 25 years before diagnosis.
"It is clear that lifestyle factors like alcohol can affect outcome," said
Han.
Source: American Association for Cancer Research
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