Not sure I buy this, but good news for coffee drinkers and PC

Saw that on the evening news.  As they said, "if you don't like the answer, just wait awhile." Used to measure my daily consumption by 55 gallon drums, and it was industrial strength. Guess I was not one of the lucky ones. Since PC I am down to one cup a day.

Dang that's another one. I love coffee, peppers, and mushrooms ~ all three proposed to be be anti-prostate cancer ~ and...

Well here I am...

Tony

All my life I have eaten plenty of food and drunk plenty of drinks that are supposed to be good for you because they are high in anti-oxidants.

However the fact that I still got PCa does not mean that this latest study is in any way wrong. If anti-oxidants are good for you, then the conclusion I have to draw is that had I not done so, then my PCa would have been worse than it was and it would have hit me at a younger age.

Alf

Brian Williams of NBC who does the Evening News-> I Love the guy.

As he was introducing the coffee store last night he started out with: "If you don't like one study - wait a couple of days and a differnt study will come out."

I like the fact that there is/was a study about helping prevent/cure prostate cancer or any cancer for that matter.

Right after the evening news - I watched a show that talked about how termits might be our friends... They produce a lot of energy while eating our houses...

Here is the citation and the abstract:

Coffee Consumption and Prostate Cancer Risk and Progression in the Health Professionals Follow-up Study

Kathryn M. Wilson,
Julie L. Kasperzyk,
Jennifer R. Rider,
Stacey Kenfield,
Rob M. van Dam,
Meir J. Stampfer,
Edward Giovannucci and
Lorelei A. Mucci

J Natl Cancer Inst (2011) May 18, 2011 103 (10)

Abstract

Background Coffee contains many biologically active compounds, including caffeine and phenolic acids, that have potent antioxidant activity and can affect glucose metabolism and sex hormone levels. Because of these biological activities, coffee may be associated with a reduced risk of prostate cancer.

Methods We conducted a prospective analysis of 47 911 men in the Health Professionals Follow-up Study who reported intake of regular and decaffeinated coffee in 1986 and every 4 years thereafter. From 1986 to 2006, 5035 patients with prostate cancer were identified, including 642 patients with lethal prostate cancers, defined as fatal or metastatic. We used Cox proportional hazards models to assess the association between coffee and prostate cancer, adjusting for potential confounding by smoking, obesity, and other variables. All P values were from two-sided tests.

Results The average intake of coffee in 1986 was 1.9 cups per day. Men who consumed six or more cups per day had a lower adjusted relative risk for overall prostate cancer compared with nondrinkers (RR = 0.82, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.68 to 0.98, Ptrend = .10). The association was stronger for lethal prostate cancer (consumers of more than six cups of coffee per day: RR = 0.40, 95% CI = 0.22 to 0.75, Ptrend = .03). Coffee consumption was not associated with the risk of nonadvanced or low-grade cancers and was only weakly inversely associated with high-grade cancer. The inverse association with lethal cancer was similar for regular and decaffeinated coffee (each one cup per day increment: RR = 0.94, 95% CI = 0.88 to 1.01, P = .08 for regular coffee and RR = 0.91, 95% CI = 0.83 to 1.00, P = .05 for decaffeinated coffee). The age-adjusted incidence rates for men who had the highest (?6 cups per day) and lowest (no coffee) coffee consumption were 425 and 519 total prostate cancers, respectively, per 100 000 person-years and 34 and 79 lethal prostate cancers, respectively, per 100 000 person-years.

Conclusions We observed a strong inverse association between coffee consumption and risk of lethal prostate cancer. The association appears to be related to non-caffeine components of coffee.