An update to federal dietary guidelines ... connection should be the main takeaway from the new report. “Essentially, what this means is that alcohol is clearly a carcinogen,” Siegel said.

Alcohol is a known risk factor for cancer, and new research is showing just how much its impacted cancer mortality rates in the past three decades.

Those new federal dietary guidelines ... to correct statistical mistakes in over 100 previous reports analyzing the relationship between alcohol and mortality, like a widely cited 1997 one ...