from Lund University and University of Bristol
Coffee may help protect against a
recurrence of breast cancer. Confirmation
of that comes from the same teams of
researchers in Sweden and Britain who first
published their study two years ago. The
follow-up study provides more details that
coffee inhibits the growth of tumors and
reduces the risk of recurrence in women
diagnosed with breast cancer and treated
with the drug tamoxifen. Results suggest
women treated with tamoxifen who drank
at least two cups of coffee a day had only
one-half the risk of recurrence as those
who drank less coffee or none at all.
Substances in coffee, especially caffeine,
may turn off the mechanism cancer cells
require to grow. While the researchers at
Lund University and University of Bristol
emphasize the importance of taking
prescribed medication, they say coffee
appears to reinforce the effect of
tamoxifen.