Drink coffee for your breasts

by Sarah J. Gim, Posted May 7th 2006 @ 7:28PM

coffee A recent study suggests that drinking coffee prevents breast cancer breast cancer in a specific group of women: those who have the BRCA1 mutation. The genetic mutation puts women at a higher risk of developing breast cancer.

The Canadian Breast Cancer Research Alliance and National Cancer Institute sponsored a study in which researchers compared answers to a survey about coffee consumption against the medical records of 1,690 women who have the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genetic mutations. Compared to women who did not drink coffee at all, those who had 1 to 3 cups of coffee per day reduced the risk of breast cancer by 10%. That doesn't seem all that impressive, but take a look at the serious java junkies: women who drank 4 to 5 cups of coffee reduced their risk by 25% and women who drank 6+ cups of coffee per day reduced their risk by a whopping 69%.

I think there are some days I drink six cups of coffee by...lunch.

[via: The Cancer Blog]

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