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Finding May Explain Alcohol/Cancer Link Brief Description: Transcript: Brooks: What we found is that the acetaldehyde can react with this other chemical that is present in our cells, and that causes kind of a chain reaction that ultimately results in a particularly dangerous type of DNA damage. We did these studies using concentrations of acetaldehyde that are within the range that might actually occur, particularly in the mouth, when people drink alcohol. So we believe then that these studies are biologically relevant, although it is important to point out that these are "test tube" studies still. So we still have to verify this work in living cells. Schmalfeldt: Doctor Brooks said that researchers have
long suspected acetaldehyde's role in the link between alcohol and cancer.
He said the study gives scientists important new clues about its involvement.
From the National Institutes of Health, I'm Bill Schmalfeldt in Bethesda,
Maryland. |
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