| Title | How That Third Cup of Coffee Helps Fight Deadly Skin Cancer | |
| Date | Friday January 30 2015, @09:06PM | |
| Author | janrinok | |
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| from the correllation-is-not-causation-etc dept. | ||
A new National Cancer Institute (NCI) study reveals that drinking four or more cups of joe a day might reduce the risk of melanoma, the most deadly form of skin cancer.
The fifth most common form of cancer in the U.S., melanoma is diagnosed in some 77,000 people annually, killing 9,500 of them.
And while limiting exposure to the sun is the number one way to decrease your risk, the compounds in coffee have been shown to reduce skin cancer risk in recent lab studies.
Researchers examined more than 447,000 people, ages 50 to 71, who were cancer-free at the start of the ten-year report. By the end, roughly 2,900 developed malignant melanomas. The most hardcore coffee drinkers—people who down four cups a day—saw their risk for melanoma drop by 20%.
While researchers insist the NCI study is not conclusive, coffee has also been linked to a reduced risk of diabetes, depression and Parkinson’s disease.
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