HealthAugust 5, 2007 5:30 am
Coffee Linked To Reduced Liver Cancer Risk
A new study by scientists in Europe concluded that coffee drinking is linked to a reduced risk of prima
ry liver cancer. But the findings do not say if coffee reduces liver cancer or if the link could be due to something else, for instance whether people with liver cancer tend to drink less coffee for other reasons.
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ry liver cancer. But the findings do not say if coffee reduces liver cancer or if the link could be due to something else, for instance whether people with liver cancer tend to drink less coffee for other reasons.
The study was led by Francesca Bravi of the Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri in Milan, Italy, and is published in the August issue of Hepatology, the official journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD).
Liver cancer is the fifth most common cancer and the third largest cause of death from cancer in the world, after lung and stomach cancer. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) liver cancer kills over 660,000 people globally every year.
