Coffee can lower risk of skin cancer: study
Posted Jan 21, 2015 7:40 am.
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Go ahead, have that second cup of coffee.
A large study finds the more coffee you drink, the lower your risk for developing malignant melanoma.
Researchers looked at data from 450,000 cancer-free people in a diet and health study, and compared their coffee consumption to their melanoma risk over 10 years.
It turned out the more coffee they drank; the less likely they were to develop skin cancer.
The results came even after they adjusted for other factors, such as body mass, UV light exposure, age, sex, smoking status, and alcohol intake.
If they drank more than four cups of coffee daily, they were 20 per cent less likely to develop the disease.
The research is in The Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
