3 cups of coffee a day may keep skin cancer away

BREW THAT SAVES

Washington: Good news for the coffee buffs, especially women drinkers: Consuming copious amounts of the beverage daily may help reduce the risk of the most common type of skin cancer, a new study has claimed. 
    Researchers at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston found that women who drank over three cups of coffee daily were 20% less likely to develop basal cell carcinoma (BCC), a slowgrowing form of skin cancer, than those who drank less than one cup a month. 
    But, men who drank same amount of the beverage saw only a 9% reduction in the disease, found the study. BCC rarely spread to other parts of the body, and rarely return if they are promptly removed. 
    "Given the nearly one million new cases of BCC diagnosed each year in the US, daily dietary factors with even small protective effects may have great public health impact," study researcher Fengju Song said. 
    The study, presented at the American Association for Cancer Research meeting in Boston, found an association, not a direct cause-effect link. PTI 
Drinking water cuts bladder cancer risk 
    Downing more than four pints of the beverage daily can cut men's risk of bladder cancer by a quarter, say researchers. A new study of 48,000 men, carried out by Brown University, found that those who drank more than 2,531 ml of fluids a day — equal to almost four and a half pints — had a 24% lower risk or bladder cancer. This could be because the liquid flushes any cancer-causing agents out of the bladder before they are able to cause any harm, according to the researchers. PTI