Four cups of coffee a day keeps mouth cancer at bay

It is our responsibility to share with our patients all the facts and worrying figures about mouth cancer.


There has been some recent developments in America about reducing the risk, a suggestion that will suit many of us coffee drinkers

Drinking four cups of coffee can halve the risk of dying from throat and mouth cancer, according to a study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology.

Lead author Janet Hildebrand and her colleagues from the American Cancer Society (ACS) used data from 968,432 men and women for the study. The researchers found that the participants who reported drinking more than four cups of caffeinated coffee a day had a 49 per cent lower risk of death from throat and mouth cancer compared to those who don't drink coffee at all.

However, Hildebrand warns that this evidence is not solid enough to actively encourage people to go out and drink coffee.

Emma