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In its sixth Evidence Summary Brief, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) highlights alcohol as a major preventable cause of cancer. Despite growing public health concern, alcohol consumption continues to increase in several world regions, including the Americas, the Western Pacific, sub-Saharan Africa, and South-East Asia. Consumption is currently highest in Europe, where awareness remains low: less than half of people know that alcohol can cause cancer.

Three in five liver cancer cases are linked to preventable risk factors like alcohol, viral hepatitis, and obesity, according to a new Lancet Commission report. Without urgent action, global liver cancer cases could nearly double by 2050. The report calls for stronger prevention efforts, including hepatitis vaccination, alcohol policy reforms, and strategies to address rising rates of metabolic dysfunction-associated liver disease.