Could coffee contain an anti-cancer agent?
Coffee has been affiliated to a bargain accident of dying from prostate blight in a abstraction of about 50,000 US men.
Those who drank six or added cups a day were begin to be 20% beneath acceptable to advance any anatomy of the ache - which is the best accepted blight in men.

They were additionally 60% beneath acceptable to advance an advancing anatomy which can advance to added genitalia of the body. But charities say the evidence, appear in the Journal of the National Blight Institute, is still unclear.

They do not acclaim that men booty up coffee bubbler in the achievement of preventing prostate cancer.

Unknown compounds


The abstraction looked at about 48,000 men in the US who assignment as bloom professionals. Every four years amid 1986 and 2006, they were asked to address their boilerplate circadian assimilation of coffee.

During this 20-year period, 5,035 of the men were diagnosed with prostate cancer, including 642 baleful cases. No aberration was apparent amid caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee, suggesting caffeine itself was not the cause.

But alike almost baby amounts of coffee - one to three cups per day - were begin to lower the accident of baleful prostate blight by 30%.

The advisers anticipate there may be alien compounds in coffee that assure adjoin the disease.

Lead researcher Dr Kathryn Wilson, from the Harvard School of Public Bloom in Boston, said: "At present we abridgement an compassionate of accident factors that can be afflicted or controlled to lower the accident of baleful prostate cancer.

"If our allegation are validated, coffee could represent one adjustable agency that may lower the accident of developing the best adverse anatomy of prostate cancer."

Commenting on the study, Dr Helen Rippon of The Prostate Blight Charity, said added studies had not apparent the articulation and the analysis affirmation was still unclear.

She added: "Although this abstraction is a acceptable accession to our knowledge, it is far from absolute and we would not acclaim men who are not already accepted coffee drinkers to become so in the achievement of preventing prostate cancer

The data
    * Previous studies accept apparent no bright articulation amid coffee and prostate blight risk
    * Men who drank six or added cups of coffee per day had a hardly lower accident of any anatomy of prostate blight and a essentially lower accident of baleful prostate blight compared with non-coffee drinkers, according to the researchers
    * Both caff and decaff were associated with agnate risks

"Heavy caffeine assimilation is associated with added bloom problems and men with amiable prostate problems ability able-bodied accomplish urinary affection worse."

Yinka Ebo, chief bloom advice administrator at Blight Analysis UK, said: "There's no charge for men to alpha bubbler gallons of coffee in an attack to lower their prostate blight risk.

"A cardinal of added studies attractive at coffee and prostate blight accept begin that bubbler coffee does not affect the accident of the disease, and this abstraction alone begin a lower accident of avant-garde prostate blight in men who drank added than six cups a day.

"We would charge to see these after-effects again in added ample studies afore we can be abiding whether coffee burning affects the accident of prostate cancer."