Coffee is the drink with which many people start their day. Beyond serving as breakfast or as a socializing element, recent studies suggest that it could have a series of health benefits: the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute includes in the article Coffee Intake, Recurrence, and Mortality in Stage III Colon Cancer that coffee could increase the chances of survival in colon cancer patients .
This research studied about a thousand patients , who were asked about their habits about coffee or other caffeinated beverages during two stages of the pathology: during chemotherapy and one year later. The results showed that those who regularly drank coffee (four or more cups a day) were 42 percent less likely to have colon cancer recur than those who did not include it in their diet. In addition, this group also had a 33 percent less chance of dying from cancer.
According to Charles S. Fuchs , director of the Dana-Farber Gastrointestinal Cancer Center and leader of the research, the reason for this effect of coffee is not exactly known, but there is a hypothesis: the consumption of caffeine increases the sensitivity of the body. to insulin , which makes it less necessary and, in turn, reduces the level of inflammation.
Likewise, Fuchs states that more studies are needed to verify the effects of caffeine and, therefore, does not recommend colon cancer patients change their habits until these results are confirmed. The expert also remembers other forms of cancer prevention such as avoiding obesity , exercising regularly or maintaining a balanced diet.
This supposed new healing properties of coffee joins those described by other studies claim that this drink caffeine could have benefits in patients with diseases such as diabetes type 2 and other cancers such as breast at menopause , the liver , that of prostate , or melanoma
