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Four Cups of Coffee A Day Cuts Risk of Oral Cancer

Posted by Unknown on from the time-to-pick-up-a-smoking-habit dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Coffee may help lower the risk of developing oral and pharyngeal cancer and of dying from the disease. The study, published in the American Journal of Epidemiology, was conducted using the Cancer Prevention Study II. The large cohort study began in 1982 by the American Cancer Society. Researchers were able to examine 968,432 men and women, none of whom had cancer at the time of their enrollment in the study." Four or more cups a day lowered the risk of getting oral cancers by a whopping 49%.

3 of 151 comments (clear)

  1. That's great... by UltraZelda64 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...but what does it increase the chances of? Well, besides drug (caffeine) addiction?

    Come on, there's always a catch...

  2. AARP had this first... by Zibodiz · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Okay, not to be a wet blanket, but my Dad told me about this a week ago, after reading about it in his subscription of AARP's [print] magazine. Shouldn't us young[er], technologically-savvy, electronically-delivered folks be getting science news a little bit faster than the old people get it in their mainstream print magazines?

  3. Re:Possible FRAUD ALERT. by mcgrew · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm VERY skeptical.

    Seriously? Did you not RTFS? "The study, published in the American Journal of Epidemiology, was conducted using the Cancer Prevention Study II. The large cohort study began in 1982 by the American Cancer Society. Researchers were able to examine 968,432 men and women, none of whom had cancer at the time of their enrollment in the study."

    What is someone who doesn't trust science fucking doing at slashdot, anyway? Go back to Sports Illustrated and leave us nerds alone, dumbass.

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