Canadian Pharmacy Suggests Coffee Can Decrease Breast Cancer Risks

Dr. Per Hal, the co-author of the study reported online in May 2011 at the Breast Cancer Researchin Sweden, participated by 5,929 women between 50 to 74 years old – about half of them have/had breast cancer; and a professor in the Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Department at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm relates their findings that women who drink at least five cups of coffee a day have 33 to 57 percent of decreasing the risk of ER-negative breast cancer than those who drink less than a cup per day.  This is a better way to avoid taking generic Arimidex. 

Their study exposed an evident association between coffee intake and a decrease in the risk of having breast cancer – not merely cause-and-effect.  That is, drinking of at least five cups of coffee per day indicated a decrease in the non-hormone-responsive disease known as ER-negative breast cancer.  Coffee consumption however does not show any effect on the hormone-responsive estrogen receptor type of disease also known as ER-positive breast cancer. 

Hal warned, "Now, we don't have all the details.  We don't know, for example, what specific type of coffee we're talking about here. But what we do know is that the protective effect is quite striking and remains even after adjusting for a lot of other factors that have the potential to play a protective role. And we know that we're talking about what we could call a relatively normal amount of coffee drinking. Certainly we're not talking about consuming gigantic amounts of coffee. So, this is a very intriguing finding."  And, Hal suggested that consumers should not jump directly to assumptions and buy Arimidex. 

Hal explained, "There are one or two other studies that have pointed in the same direction as ours -- but not many, just a few.  So before I would go to tell my neighbors to start drinking more coffee than they already do, I would like to know what is the biological mechanism at work here.  And that's not yet clear."  Hal further mentioned that their team is now running on a follow-up study to extract more information, and Canadian pharmacy is supporting them.

"The next step is to find out what chemical factors in coffee cause the decreased rate of cancer and then attempt to see if these same chemicals can be used to treat a patient once they are already diagnosed with cancer," according to Dr. Stephanie Bernik, Chief of Surgical Oncology at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City.  

The primary risk factors for breast cancer are female sex, age, lack of childbearing or breastfeeding, higher hormone levels, race, economic status and dietary iodine deficiency. 

Most cases of breast cancer cannot be prevented through any action on the part of the affected person. The World Cancer Research Fund estimated that 38% of breast cancer cases in the US are preventable through reducing alcohol intake, increasing physical activity levels and maintaining a healthy weight. It also estimated that 42% of breast cancer cases in the UK could be prevented in this way, as well as 28% in Brazil and 20% in China. 

Smoking tobacco may increase the risk of breast cancer with the greater the amount of smoking and the earlier in life smoking begins the higher the risk. 

In a study of attributable risk and epidemiological factors published in 1995, later age at first birth and not having children accounted for 29.5% of U.S. breast cancer cases, family history of breast cancer accounted for 9.1% and factors correlated with higher income contributed 18.9% of cases. Attempts to explain the increased incidence (but lower mortality) correlated with higher income include epidemiologic observations such as lower birth rates correlated with higher income and better education, possible overdiagnosis and overtreatment because of better access to breast cancer screening, and the postulation of as yet unexplained lifestyle and dietary factors correlated with higher income.