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Medical journal: caffeinated coffee doesn't raise risk for certain cancer types

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August 11, 2020

Consumption of caffeinated coffee does not increase the risk for various cancers, according to a review in The New England Journal of Medicine, reported helio.com.

Rob M. van Dam, Ph.D., an epidemiologist and professor at National University in Singapore, wrote that coffee consumption has been associated with a slightly reduced risk for melanoma, breast cancer, nonmelanoma skin cancer and prostate cancer. Stronger inverse assocations were observed between coffee consumption and endometrial cancer and hepatocellular carcinoma risk, the review said.