Coffee Drinking Associated With Reduced Oral Cancer Risk

It is good, again. See post above.

Drinking coffee is associated with a 36% reduction in the risk for cancer of the oral cavity and pharynx, according to Italian investigators who performed a meta-analysis of observational studies.

These findings echo those published earlier this year by the same group of researchers, and reported by Medscape Medical News at that time. However, the scope of the new study is larger and includes other aerodigestive tract cancers, including those of the esophagus.

The researchers did not find any association between coffee drinking and the risk for laryngeal and esophageal cancers.

Just how many cups a day is protective against oral and pharyngeal cancer could not be precisely determined from the analysis, say the investigators, led by Federica Turati, MD, from the Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche in Milan, Italy.

Still think they have any idea what they are talking about?