Coffee, Tea Lowers Cancer Risk

NEW YORK (WUSA)--Yet another study about the benefits of coffee and tea drinking.

According to a new study if you are a woman who drinks a few cups of coffee or tea then you are helping to lower your risk of endometrial cancer.

Endometrial cancer is a cancer that starts in the endometrium, the inner lining of the uterus (womb).

Those at risk of developing Endometrial cancer are older women, and women in late menopause and those taking estrogen therapy. Obesity is also a risk.

In this new study, involved 1,100 women.

Women who drank more than four cups of coffee and tea each day were only half as likely as non-drinkers to have endometrial cancer. Similarly, women who drank only tea--more than two cups per day--had a 44% lower risk of the disease.

Women who drank coffee alone showed a lower risk as well, but the evidence was not as strong. Those who drank more than two cups a day were 29 percent less likely to have endometrial cancer, but the finding was not significant in statistical terms, the researchers report in the International Journal of Cancer.