‘Risk between cancer and alcohol is real': Local doctors respond to surgeon general's report

U.S. health officials are giving a sobering warning on the link between alcohol and cancer. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy says drinking is the third leading preventable cause of cancer-related death, behind smoking and obesity. He is calling for cancer warnings on labels of alcoholic beverages. “We scientists see enough evidence for link,” said Dr. Shuji Ogino, chief of the Molecular…