Cancer, Cancer Treatment

Coffee isn?t harmful to your health, a new study confirms that theory. Is it true that long term, regular coffee consumption may speed the progression of aggressive forms of breast cancer? The findings of a new study published in the Oct. Issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine suggest caffeine ?does not appear to be associated with overall risk of breast cancer.?

For the study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, study co-author Dr. Shumin M. Zhang, from the division of preventive medicine, in the department of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston and colleagues from Tokyo Women?s Medical University in Japan examined the diets of a pool of almost 39,000 women over the age of 45 over a period of ten years. The participants were asked to provide details of their diet, including their coffee habits. 1,188 of the 38,432 study participants developed invasive breast cancer over 10 years of follow-up.

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Drinking just three cups of coffee a day may make women’s breasts shrink, a study finds.

Nearly 300 women were surveyed by researchers from Sweden’s Lund University about their bust measurements and how many cups of coffee they drank in an average day.

They found that three cups a day was enough to start making breasts shrink, with the effects increasing for every additional cup of coffee consumed.

They said there was a clear link between drinking coffee and smaller breasts, as about half of women possessed a gene shown to link breast size to coffee intake. The news wasn’t all bad, however. Researchers also found that regular caffeine intake may reduce the risk of breast cancer.

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