Hi, I've just posted a story to the news section of the OCF site of an abstract of a journal article from the Journal of Alcohol and Alcoholism that surveyed all available studies relating to the continuation of drinking after a diagnosis of upper aerodigestive tract cancer.
The key result: "Between 34 and 57% of oral cancer patients continue to drink alcohol after cancer diagnosis. Continued drinking increases complications from surgery, increases the likelihood of recurrent cancer, and reduces disease-specific survival."