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Cancer
Does Coffee Help Prevent Liver Cancer?
Date: 03/09/07
Keywords: Nutrition, Liver Cancer
As reported in the International Journal of Cancer, when the Tohoku team singled out subjects who had a history of liver disease, they found a clear link between coffee intake and a lowered risk of liver cancer. The researchers called for further studies to examine the role that coffee might play in the prevention of liver cancer among high-risk patients...Coincidence?
In Asia, where consumption of coffee is low, health officials report the highest incidence of liver cancer in the world.
Meanwhile, in the US, where you can't move for Starbucks, there are only about 18,500 cases of liver cancer reported each year.
So could your daily cup of coffee actually be protecting you from liver cancer? More and more evidence says it just might.
Prevention in a cup
Let's start in 2005.
In a past e-alert from that year I told you about research from Tohoku University in Japan that combined data from two large studies that assessed coffee consumption in more than 60,000 subjects. Results showed that occasional coffee drinkers had 30 percent lower risk of liver cancer compared to subjects who didn't drink coffee.
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