Coffee, tea may lower risk of head and neck cancer, claims study

Consumption of coffee and tea can lower the risks of developing head and neck cancer including cancers of the mouth and throat claimed a study on MondayHead and neck cancer is the seventh most common cancer worldwide and rates are rising in low and middleincome countriesThe findings based on an analysis of data from 14 studies showed that compared with noncoffeedrinkers individuals who drank more than 4 cups of caffeinated coffee daily had 17 per cent lower odds of having head and neck cancer overall It also led to a 30 per cent lower risk of having cancer of the oral cavity and 22 per cent lower odds of having throat cancerDrinking 34 cups of caffeinated coffee was linked with a 41 per cent lower risk of having hypopharyngeal cancer a type of cancer at the bottom of the throat revealed the study published in the peerreviewed CANCER journalldquoWhile there has been prior research on coffee and tea consumption and reduced risk of cancer this study highlighted their varying effects with different subsites of head and neck cancer including the observation that even decaffeinated coffee had some positive impactrdquo said senior author YuanChin Amy Lee from Huntsman Cancer Institute and the University of Utah School of MedicineldquoCoffee and tea habits are fairly complex and these findings support the need for more data and further studies around the impact that coffee and tea can have on reducing cancer riskrdquoThe team examined data from 14 studies by different scientists and pooled information on 9548 patients with head and neck cancer They were then compared with 15783 controls without cancerStudy participants completed questionnaires about their prior consumption of caffeinated coffee decaffeinated coffee and tea in cups per dayweekmonthyearNotably the researchers found that drinking decaffeinated coffee was associated with 25 per cent lower odds of oral cavity cancerDrinking tea was linked with 29 per cent lower odds of hypopharyngeal cancer Also drinking one cup or less of tea daily was linked with a 9 per cent lower risk of head and neck cancer overall and a 27 per cent lower risk of hypopharyngeal cancer but drinking more than one cup was associated with 38 per cent higher odds of laryngeal cancerAlso ReadLung cancer rising among nonsmokers in India doctors raise concernThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever