Coffee Prevent Skin Cancer

Increased by one more proof that coffee, especially for women, positive impact to prevent skin cancer. Unfortunately, this potential is not visible on male coffee drinkers.

Women who drank more than three cups of coffee per day had a 20 percent lower risk of developing basal cell karsnimoa (basal cell carcinoma / BCC), slow-growing type of cancer, compared with those who drank one cup of coffee a month. While men fan of coffee, the risk is only reduced by 9 percent.

Similarly, according to study results presented at the conference of the American Association for Cancer Research International to 10 in Boston, USA.

"Every year nearly one million new cases of BCC was found in the U.S.. Dietary factors may have a protective effect of small but big impact for public health," said Fengju Song, from the department of dermatology at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
The data used in this study comes from the Song Nurse's Health Study followed 72,921 participants since 1984 until 2008 and the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study involving 39,976 participants since 1986 until 2008.

Basal cell carcinoma is a type of skin cancer most commonly found of the respondents, which reached 22,786 kasus.Namun benefits of drinking coffee is not seen in two types of skin cancer, squamous cell carcinoma and melanoma.

Karsnioma basal cells usually occur on unprotected skin. The main cause is exposure to excessive ultraviolet rays of the sun repeatedly or from ultraviolet light rays. Usually localized and rarely spreads grow.

The benefits of coffee itself to the prevention of cancer is not new this time is known. Previously coffee was also associated with reduced risk of breast cancer, uterine, prostate and colon cancer. However, the benefits of coffee is not seen in people who like to drink coffee dekafein.