Drinking coffee cuts ER negative breast cancer risk
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By David Liu, Ph.D. and editing by Aimee Keenan-Green
A new study reported recently in BioMed Central suggests drinking lots of coffee may reduce risk of estrogen-receptor negative breast cancer in postmenopausal women.
Jingmei Li of Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden and Genome Institute of Singapore and colleagues wanted to examine the association between drinking coffee and breast cancer risk in postmenopausal women including 2,818 cases of breast cancer and 3,111 controls without the disease.
Li et al. found drinking coffee was correlated with a 20 percent reduced overall breast cancer risk, compared with those who drank less than one cup of coffee a day.
Those who drank five or more cups of coffee a day were 57 percent less likely to be diagnosed with ER negative breast cancer, compared with those who drank one cup or less per day.
The reduction in the risk of ER positive breast cancer was less significant.
The researchers concluded that "a high daily intake of coffee was found to be associated with a statistically significant decrease in ER-negative breast cancer among postmenopausal women."
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