Coffee Drinking May Keep Liver Cancer at Bay
Hepatitisneighborhood.com, Aug 31, 2005
....Taichi Shimazu, MD, in the Division of Epidemiology at the Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine in Sendai, Japan.... estimated that those who never drank coffee faced the highest risk of cancer, compared to those who drank at least one cup of coffee per day. Even those who drank coffee occasionally had a lower risk than never-drinkers, the study found. Regular drinkers had a 29% lower risk than occasional drinkers, but a more than 40% reduced risk than those who never drank coffee....
Yet another study published earlier this year echoed these conclusions. Researchers with the National Cancer Center in Tokyo conducted a prospective cohort study similar to the latest research on the prophylactic effects of coffee.
The research team found that people who consumed coffee nearly each day at the minimum cut their risk of contracting hepatocellular carcinoma by more than half, on average. Additionally, increasing amounts of coffee consumption decreased the risk even further, the investigators reported, with the greatest risk reduction associated with drinking at least five cups of coffee daily....more...
