Generally, the more you drink, the greater your cancer odds. Heavy drinkers, who down two or three drinks every day, are most likely to get cancer and to die from it. Even if you’re a light drinker (no more than three drinks a week) your chances are still higher than for teetotalers.Alcohol ups your chances of cancer in at least seven parts of your body. They include your: Liver. This organ’s main job is to filter blood and toxins. And alcohol is toxic to liver cells. Heavy drinking can inflame and scar your liver. Too much alcohol can double your chances of liver cancer compared to drinking no alcohol. Mouth and throat. We have some of the strongest evidence for this. Heavy drinkers are five times as likely as nondrinkers to get cancer here. That’s because booze damages cells in these tissues. And the danger gets even bigger if you light up as well, since ...