Coffee may ‘protect’ against cancer

WOMEN who drink coffee could be protecting themselves against an aggressive form of breast cancer, research suggests.

Coffee drinkers are far less likely to develop oestrogen-receptor negative breast cancer, particularly if they drink five cups or more a day. These types of tumours do not react to a wide range of drugs, meaning chemotherapy is often the only option.

In the study, experts from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm found coffee drinkers had a lower incidence of breast cancer than women who rarely drank coffee.