Posted on 11/09/2007 3:00:45 PM PST by blam
Coffee 'reduces the risk of skin cancer'
By Nic Fleming Science Correspondent
Last Updated: 12:01am GMT 09/11/2007
Drinking coffee can cut the risk of skin cancer by more than a third, scientists say.
A good healthy dose: scientists believe caffeine could stop skin cancers spreading
Researchers found that people who drank more than six cups of caffeinated coffee a day reduced their chances of developing the most common form of skin cancer by 35 per cent, while those who drank two or three cups were 12 per cent less likely to have the disease.
Scientists believe caffeine could stop skin cancers spreading by stopping cells dividing, or by acting as an antioxidant.
Cases of skin cancer have quadrupled for men and tripled for women over the past 25 years in Britain, partly because of the increase in holidays in the sun.
Around 75,000 cases of non-melanoma skin cancer (NMSC), the milder form of the disease, are diagnosed each year. Dr Ernest Abel, whose study was published in the European Journal of Cancer Prevention, said: "The decreased prevalence in non-melanoma skin cancer associated with daily consumption of caffeinated coffee was dose-related and consistent with other studies.
"Among the possible explanations for caffeine's protective effect on NMSC are an antioxidant effect and/or inhibition of DNA synthesis and cell division."
Dr Abel, of Wayne State University, Detroit, and colleagues compared rates of NMSC among more than 77,300 white women aged 50 and over. They excluded women of other ethnic origins as they reported much lower rates of the disease.
The researchers said the findings should apply equally to men and women of all ages. Drinking decaffeinated coffee had no effect on participants' chances of developing skin cancer.
Taster's Choice?
how ‘bout the benefits of beer? i’m waiting for a study.
it will also help you get “bad word for ‘datin’ “
Coffee enema, LOL.
Sweet Jesus, who drinks **six** cups of coffee a day?! Do these people sleep? Ever?
Six cups of coffee?? A day?? I’d never get to sleep. Yikes!!
So does beer. You get skin cancer outside, under the blinding rays of the Texas sun, not inside, in a cool, scantly illuminated, bar, sipping a good beer.
I drink 4 cups of coffee and then 4 beers, just so they can fight it out.
If that is true, then the conclusion of this study is completely bogus
Decaffeinated coffee still has caffeine in it, just not as much as regular joe
You won’t get skin cancer, but you’ll die from a massive heart attack.
I’d still not get to sleep. I can’t even have a lipton tea after 12:00 noon, or I just won’t get to sleep.
And then I would gain way too much weight. No, not for me.
Good ol' Basil Cell Cancer (Post removal). I guess I need to drink more coffee.
Hah. Just a virgin when it comes to the number of cups per day
I do not believe a word of this.
6 cups a day in the NW is not uncommon.
But has preference for duct tape.
I can drink an eight cup pot myself by about 10:30 am. then switch to diet Pepsi for the rest of the day. I must have a high caffienne tolerance...as sleeping is no problem :)
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