Coffee consumption associated with reduced mortality in people with colorectal cancer (37% less relapse risk with 4+ coffees a day)

Medical Xpress / Wageningen University / International Journal of Cancer ^ | Feb. 16, 2024 | Abisola M. Oyelere et al

[ConservativeMind]

There appears to be a significant link between the coffee intake of people with intestinal cancer and mortality, as well as the likelihood of the disease returning after remission. A team in which researchers participated have reached this conclusion.

Previous research showed that coffee consumption reduced the risk of intestinal cancer. This new study investigated whether coffee also impacts the disease's progression. The researchers compared coffee intake to the return of the disease after remission and the mortality among patients.

A total of 1,719 patients were questioned about their lifestyle, including the question of how much coffee they drank. The results show that patients who drink more than four cups a day have a 37% lower chance of relapse than those who drink less than two cups a day. Moreover, the mortality rate was lowest among those who consumed between three and five cups a day.

Some 12,000 people are diagnosed with intestinal cancer in the Netherlands each year, making it one of the most prevalent forms of cancer both in the Netherlands and abroad. Although life expectancy after a diagnosis is increasing, the cancer relapses in 20% to 30% of this group, prompting extensive studies into the connection with nutrition and other lifestyle factors.

[ConservativeMind]

Coffee somehow helps with colon cancer.

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[Nervous Tick]

>> Coffee somehow helps with colon cancer.

Coffee helps with everything! :-)

[Noumenon]

Coffee! I can sleep when I’m dead.

[HighSierra5]

I’m sure the coffee industry, who probably sponsored the study, is happy with the results. Yeah, drink as many cups as you can!

[Laslo Fripp]

It probably has something to do with peeing more frequently.

Where’s my grant money?

[kiryandil]

Perhaps it has something to do with retention of solid waste.

I find that I don't retain solid waste with my coffee consumption. :)

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

I need my coffee. I produce juicy bowel movements in the mornings.

[irishjuggler]

I think you may have hit on something there. I suspect that the mechanism going on here is coffee acting as a mild laxative, keeping things moving. This is anecdotal, but it seems to me that people who are constantly constipated have great incidence of these sorts of cancers.

[where's_the_Outrage?]

[lee martell]

Jumping for joy, vs dumping for joy.

[WASCWatch]

I’m 70. About 6-7 years ago, one of my high school classmates asked for help raising funds for some sort of contraption to give herself coffee enemas to treat colon cancer.

A out 6 months later, she said she was cured and was donating the machine to a other colon cancer patient.

[vpintheak]

Coffee is awesome. It’s gotta be drunk black though. None of that girly crap in it.

[MachIV]

I have also read where consumption of black coffee is associated with warding off type 2 diabetes.

[Ronaldus Magnus III]

At least a decade ago, I read that 3-5 cups of coffee a day inhibits Parkinsons for women.

I just did a quick search and found this:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7773776/

Now that I am retired, I drink several cups of joe in the morning while I leisurely read. I had no plans to cut back, and still don’t.

Drinking decaffeinated coffee reminds me of diet drinks, or nonalcoholic beer. No, no, no.

[exnavy]

I drink in the 3 to 5 group, pots per day.

[Does so]

Folders makes “Half-Decaf”.

Not impressed...

[trebb]

I remember Michael Landon taking coffee enemas to try to fight his colon cancer.....

[MayflowerMadam]

“It’s gotta be drunk black though. None of that girly crap in it.”

Amen! The strongest, freshest, black coffee available. My boss used to order a carafe of hazelnut coffee for staff meetings. I’d have to sit as far away from it as possible; just the smell triggered my gag reflex. (Ditto for when my husband eats yogurt. I go to another room.)

[EQAndyBuzz]

“Coffee helps with everything! :-)”

The other thing they said helps with everything is bacon. Nicely smoked and salted good ole bacon helps with everything from hunger to mental health. Ever see someone depressed when they eat bacon. Nay I say!!

For the record, I drink 2 cups of coffee a day. One regular and the other half-caf. But I find myself most happy when that coffee is supplemented with a few nice strips of bacon.