Study: strong inverse association between coffee consumption and advanced prostate cancer

Data presented at the American Association for Cancer Research Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research Conference suggested a strong inverse association between coffee consumption and the risk of lethal and advanced prostate cancers. However, it is too early for doctors to start advising their male patients to take up the habit of regular coffee drinking,

“Coffee has effects on insulin and glucose metabolism as well as sex hormone levels, all of which play a role in prostate cancer. It was plausible that there may be an association between coffee and prostate cancer,” said Kathryn M. Wilson, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow at the Channing Laboratory, Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health.