Can Your Next Cup of Coffee Decrease Your Cancer Risk?

A new study done by the Harvard School of Public Health recently found that men who drink coffee could decrease their risk of prostate cancer. According to the study, men who drink six or more cups of coffee a day lower their risk of any form of prostate cancer by 20 percent and lethal forms by 60 percent.

According to WebMD, “the risk reduction held for both regular coffee and decaf, leading the researchers to speculate it’s not the caffeine providing the protection.”… About 217,730 new cases of prostate cancer were diagnosed in 2010, according to the American Cancer Society. About 32,000 men died of the disease in 2010

Doctors and researchers are not ready to tell men to start drinking more coffee but it’s perhaps great news to men who already drink a cup or two a day.

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