Coffee reduces breast cancer risk, study suggests

Too bad I need to be careful about how much coffee I consume. The research is so much better and more positive than in the past. But then, that could all flip again.

Researchers from Sweden compared lifestyle factors and coffee consumption between women with breast cancer and age-matched women without. They found that coffee drinkers had a lower incidence of breast cancer than women who rarely drank coffee. However they also found that several lifestyle factors affected breast cancer rates, such as age at menopause, exercise, weight, education, and a family history of breast cancer. Once they had adjusted their data to account for these other factors they found that the protective effect of coffee on breast cancer was only measurable for ER-negative breast cancer.

Coffee reduces breast cancer risk, study suggests