Women Like Coffee Safer Breast Cancer

Stockholm, various compounds contained in coffee are known to be an antioxidant that is believed to reduce cancer risk. Including on women, consumption of 5 cups of coffee a day could prove to reduce the risk of breast cancer by 57 percent.

Benefits of drinking coffee to breast health expressed by Dr Per Page, a professor of medicine from Karolinka Institute in Sweden. In his research, Dr. It involves approximately 5929 Swedish women with an age range 50 to 70 years.

Observations over several years show, 50 percent of participants affected by breast cancer. When compared with lifestyle and other factors, Dr. Page found an association between coffee drinking habits with the risk of breast cancer. Participants who drank 5 cups of coffee per day had a risk of cancer is 33-57 percent lower than the participants who drank coffee less than 1 cup a day. Types of breast cancer are influenced by coffee drinking habits is the type of estrogen-Resistant (ER) Negative.

Several previous studies have also shown that coffee can reduce the risk of cancer, but not yet known exactly what compounds that play a role. Originally expected, the compound is fitoesterogen but has no effect on breast cancer ER Positive. "I myself would not necessarily recommend to drink more coffee before knowing the exact biological mechanisms that could explain this relationship," said Dr. Page in a report in the journal Breast Cancer as quoted from HealthDay, Wednesday (05/11/2011).

Caution is indicated Dr. It is quite reasonable, because other studies also conducted in Sweden revealed that coffee can also have negative impact on the breast. It is said that breast size can be reduced if you drink more than 3 cups of coffee per day.

As mentioned by Dr. Hal, before anyone explain the mechanism should be consumed in excessive amounts of coffee does not just because they want free from the risk of breast cancer. Even if true could reduce breast size, are important not so much.

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