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# Could coffee lower bladder cancer risk?
- URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/coffee_lower_bladder_cancer_0510120647/
- Published: 2012-05-10T19:45:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-22T15:46:26.000Z
- Description: Meta-analysing 23 case-control studies, researchers linked 2, 3 or 4 cups of coffee a day to 15%, 22% and 29% lower bladder cancer risk. Five cohort studies showed reductions of 9% or less, and the researchers call the two sets of findings inconsistent.
- Author: Food Consumer
- Tags: Food, Nutrition, #vivvo-import

By David Liu

It has been known that drinking coffee may help prevent bladder cancer. A new study in the May 4, 2012 issue of Preventive Medicine showed that drinking coffee was inversely associated with risk of bladder cancer after data from case-control studies were analysed.

Yunping Zhou of Shandong University in PR China and colleagues found an inverse association after meta-analysing 23 case-control studies of 7690 incident cases of bladder cancer and 13,507 controls, but did not find an inverse association based on data from five cohort studies of 700 cases from a study population of 229,099 men and women.

Based on data from case-control studies, the researchers also found drinking 2 or 3 or 4 cups of coffee a day was correlated with a 15 or 22 or 29 percent reduction in the bladder cancer risk, respectively.

Based on data from cohort studies, the researchers found that one cup of coffee a day was linked to 9 percent reduction in the risk for bladder cancer. For 2 cups, 3 cups and 4 cups a day, the reduction was 13, 9 or 1 percent respectively.

The findings from case-control studies and cohort studies were non-consistent, the researchers said.