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Coffee may cut risk for some cancers
News - June 23, 2010 11:05 A.M.
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Drinking more than four cups of coffee may lower the risk of some head and neck cancers, according to a new study.
Researchers found that regular coffee drinkers, those who drank more than four cups of coffee a day, had a 39 percent decreased risk of two types of head and neck cancer: oral cavity and pharynx cancers. Coffee did not decrease the risk of a third type of oral cancer – laryngeal cancer. They looked at nine existing studies and analyzed how much coffee was consumed by more than 5,000 cancer patients and about 9,000 healthy people.
While these results are encouraging, it doesn't mean we should just go out and start drinking lots of coffee, says Mia Hashibe, lead researcher and an assistant professor in the department of family and preventive medicine at the University of Utah. Continue article at original source
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