New study reveals coffee drinking can help prostate cancer
The Journal of the National Cancer Institute has published the results of a study which could be good news for the male population. It seems that coffee drinking has some health benefits – the study indicated that supping coffee can reduce the risk of prostate cancer in men.
The study took place over 22 years (1986-2008) and involved almost 48,000 American men. Over this period, just over 5,000 of the men developed prostate cancer and 642 died from it. The researchers analysed these results and noted that those who consumed more coffee (a daily consumption rate of 6 cups) were one fifth less likely to develop the disease and if they did contract prostate cancer the chances of them dying from the condition were 60% lower than average. Even men who drank 1-3 cups of coffee each day had a better statistical risk of contracting deadly prostate cancer, as they were 30% less likely to do so.
Of course, these findings need to be examined further and supplemented with further research. One interesting thing to note is that the researchers suspect that it is not caffeine per se which helps ward off the cancer. This conclusion was reached because those men who imbibed decaffeinated coffee had similar statistics to those drinking the normal caffeinated coffee.
Hopefully these impressive preliminary results will lead to a more rigorous review of the properties in coffee that increase the chances of success in combating forms of lethal cancer.