Coffee Wards Off Cancer

Thorfinn.au writes "A new study indicates that heavy coffee drinking staves off deadly prostate cancer in men. Some 47,911 US men were surveyed over the period 1986 to 2008 for the research. During this time some 5,035 of them developed prostate cancer with 642 dying of it. According to analysis by investigating scientists, men who drank the most coffee (a fairly normal six-plus cups per day) had a 20 per cent lower risk of developing any kind of prostate cancer. If they did get prostate cancer, the java-swillers were much less likely to die from it than others: their risk of deadly prostate cancer was no less than 60 per cent lower than normal. Even less thirsty coffee drinkers who only put away one to three cups daily saw their chance of deadly prostate cancer fall by a useful 30 per cent."

Wards off cancer?

[NickstaDB]

What doesn't? Then a week later the media is full of reports that it gives you cancer or vice versa..!

Re:Once again for the cheap seats

[dreemernj]

The number of potential reasons for the correlation is staggering. Think of the other things that could be different in the lifestyle and diet of someone that drinks 6 cups of coffee a day versus someone that drinks 1?

It's painful everytime a horrible summary like this makes it through.

Re:Missing from the summary

[interkin3tic]

It is surprising to those of us who think of coffee as "caffeine vehicle" first and foremost, followed closely by "good tasting" and "break from work." When I heard "coffee does good things" I was thinking "Caffeine does good things," not "phytoestrogens are undoubtedly what's doing the good thing in coffee!"

Not logical exactly, but yeah, the decaf part was a surprise to me. If for no other reason than "What type of horrible person would even think to test decaf."