Booze link to cancer

DRINKING regularly as a teenage boy triples the risk of developing aggressive prostate cancer decades later, research suggests.

Those who have at least seven drinks a week between the ages of 15 and 19 are three times as likely to get the disease in their 60s, 70s or 80s, scientists from the University of North Carolina have found.

Alcohol consumption has long been linked to other forms of the disease, particularly breast, liver and bowel cancer but, until now, evidence has been mixed about the link to prostate cancer.