For people with a genetic tendency towards skin issues like tumors and different types of cancer, it might be time to sip some extra brewed beans in the morning; it seems that coffee's melanoma properties include a fairly important decrease in the risk of ever having the disease.
In the past, studies have seen a link between coffee's non-melanoma, which is to say that the a possibility coffee helping with other types of skin cancer was fairly high; however, now a new study has put forward the notion that it can also help reduce the risk of melanoma in patients who drink up to four cups a day.
According to Science Daily, the new study regarding coffee and melanoma first came out to the public in a study entitled "Coffee Drinking and Cutaneous Melanoma Risk in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study" and published in the JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute, from workers of the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics from the National Cancer Institute, taking information from the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study.
As The New York Times reports, the coffee and melanoma study researched the dietary data of 447,357 white people from non-Hispanic origins between the ages of 50 and 71, following them for about 10 years; over the course of the investigation, the researchers saw 2,904 cases of melanoma, which is the most serious type of skin cancer.
As Medical News Today reports, the patients who were a part of the study completed a food frequency questionnaire - which also took into account their coffee intake - and, later on, they were monitored for the next decade.
Interestingly enough, the scientists found that, the more coffee had been consumed by a participant daily, they were less likely to develop this type of skin cancer later on, suggesting that coffee's melanoma properties could ultimately be used in the preventive battle of the disease.
