Drinking Multiple Cups of Coffee May Reduce Risk of Cancer, Suggests Study
News 18Do you crave for coffee everyday? A new study suggests that drinking several cups of coffee every day may be linked to a lower risk of developing prostate cancer. “This study suggests that increased coffee consumption may be associated with a reduced risk of prostate cancer,” according to the researchers of the study, including Xiaonan Chen, Department of Urology, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University. They pooled the data from 16:15 reported on the risk of prostate cancer associated with the highest, compared with the lowest, coffee consumption; 13 reported on the risk associated with an additional daily cup. Compared with the lowest category of coffee consumption, the highest category was associated with a reduction in prostate cancer risk of 9 per cent and each additional daily cup was associated with a reduction in risk of 1 per cent.