Coffee consumption may be inversely associated with risk of colorectal cancer, according to a study published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention. Scientists investigated the association between coffee consumption and colorectal cancer in more than 5,000 cases from the Molecular Epidemiology of Colorectal Cancer study and found that coffee consumption was associated with 26 percent lower odds of developing colorectal cancer.
The researchers considered the coffee type, the cancer site and the ethnic subgroup. Higher coffee consumption was associated with lower odds of developing colorectal cancer, according to Medscape.
