[Rich66]

Here's a new potential twist (mouse study):
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45348447.../#.TsXazFZ31I4

The researchers aren't sure how alcohol, which is carcinogenic, may act to suppress breast cancer's spread. The study showed alcohol did not affect the growth of tumors in the breast. So it may have affected the spread of the tumor in a different way, such as allowing the immune system to better attack the cancer at other sites in the body.