Coffee Cuts Risk of Cancer by a Third

Monday November 5,2007
By Victoria Fletcher, Health Editor

DRINKING coffee every day can reduce the risk of some skin cancers, new research shows.

Six cups a day can cut the threat by around 30 per cent.

The benefits are only seen with caffeinated coffee – decaffeinated does not have the same impact, according to scientists in America.

They found that while just over 10 per cent of women who never drank coffee got skin cancer, among those downing six cups or more a day the figure was just 6.7 per cent.

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