The last 15 years have seen a remarkable change in the clinical considerations of coffee.
Studies examining the caffeinated beverage for its potential effects on more than several different biological systems, from the kidneys to mood, have pinned it as something like a health drink.
Now, research from the University of Utah published in the journal Cancer has shown that people who drink 4 cups of caffeinated coffee per day were at a lower risk of developing head and neck cancer.
The seventh most common form of cancer worldwide, head and neck cancer had an almost 50% mortality rate among 750,000 patients in 2020—the last year worldwide data on head and neck cancer was collected.
The team from Utah examined 14 older studies covering around 9,500 head and neck cancer patients and almost 16,000 cancer-free people to see how the diagnosis rates stacked up when the patients’ coffee consumption was factored in.
People who drank more than 4 cups a day “had 17% lower odds of having head and neck cancer overall, 30% lower odds of having cancer of the oral cavity, and 22% lower odds of having throat cancer.”
A 2016 meta-analysis found that coffee consumption was linked to a reduced risk of oral, pharynx, liver, colon, prostate, endometrial cancer, and melanoma but an increased lung cancer risk, while a separate paper from the same year showed a dose-dependent reduction in risk of colorectal cancer.
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Speaking in the broadest and least scientific language, plants that contain strongly flavored chemical compounds, such as cinnamon, ginger, garlic, turmeric, clove, or tea, generally prove to be strong promoters of wellness.
Perhaps this trend extends to coffee.
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