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> Drinking Coffee Cuts Liver Cancer Risk by 40%
> Tue, 10/22/2013
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> Some data from the study indicate that three cups of coffee per day reduce
> liver cancer risk by more than 50 percent.
> Some data from the study indicate that three cups of coffee per day reduce
> liver cancer risk by more than 50 percent.
> Coffee consumption reduces risk of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the
> most common type of liver cancer, by about 40 percent, according to an
> up-to-date meta-analysis published in Clinical Gastroenterology and
> Hepatology, the official clinical practice journal of the American
> Gastroenterological Association. Further, some data indicate that three
> cups of coffee per day reduce liver cancer risk by more than 50 percent.
>
> “Our research confirms past claims that coffee is good for your health,
> and particularly the liver,” said Carlo La Vecchia, study author from the
> department of epidemiology, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche “Mario
> Negri,” and department of clinical sciences and community health,
> Università degli Studi di Milan, Italy. “The favorable effect of coffee on
> liver cancer might be mediated by coffee’s proven prevention of diabetes,
> a known risk factor for the disease, or for its beneficial effects on
> cirrhosis and liver enzymes.”
>
> Researchers performed a meta-analysis of articles published from 1996
> through September 2012, ultimately studying 16 high-quality studies and a
> total of 3,153 cases. This research fills an important gap as the last
> meta-analysis was published in 2007, and since then there has been data
> published on more than 900 cases of HCC.
>
> Despite the consistency of results across studies, time periods and
> populations, it is difficult to establish whether the association between
> coffee drinking and HCC is causal, or if this relationship may be
> partially attributable to the fact that patients with liver and digestive
> diseases often voluntarily reduce their coffee intake.
>
> “It remains unclear whether coffee drinking has an additional role in
> liver cancer prevention,” added Dr. La Vecchia. “But, in any case, such a
> role would be limited as compared to what is achievable through the
> current measures.”
>
> Primary liver cancers are largely avoidable through hepatitis B virus
> vaccination, control of hepatitis C virus transmission and reduction of
> alcohol drinking. These three measures can, in principle, avoid more than
> 90 percent of primary liver cancer worldwide.
>
> Liver cancer is the sixth most common cancer in the world, and the third
> most common cause of cancer death. HCC is the main type of liver cancer,
> accounting for more than 90 percent of cases worldwide. Chronic infections
> with hepatitis B and C viruses are the main causes of liver cancer; other
> relevant risk factors include alcohol, tobacco, obesity and diabetes.
>
> Source: American Gastroenterological Association
>

As long as I keep on reading those articles on how beneficial coffee and
dark chocolate is, I know all is well with the world.....

Henry (who intends to have three or four coffees by the time the day is
through).