Coffee drinking in women reduces risk of uterine cancer, study suggests

Coffee drinkers have a much lower risk of uterine cancer than coffee drinkers, according to a large-scale survey by Japan's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.

Uterine cancer, like cervical cancer and ovarian cancer, is a common reproductive organ tumor that threatens women. According to a report by Japan Jiji News Agency on the 1st, the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare research team conducted the survey on about 54,000 women aged 40 to 69 in 10 regions of the country from 1990 to 1994, mainly to understand how often they drink coffee in their daily lives. At the end of 2005, 117 of them developed uterine cancer.

The researchers divided them into groups that drank coffee less than two days a week, one or two cups a day, and more than three cups a day based on how often they drank coffee. Compared with people in the first group, those who drank one or two drinks a day had a reduced risk of uterine cancer by about 40%, and those who drank more than three drinks a day had a reduced risk of uterine cancer by about 60%.

The same large-scale survey by the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare also showed that regular coffee drinkers, both men and women, had a lower risk of liver cancer.