Coffee could protect against bowel cancer

It can cut the risk of developing a tumour by between15 per cent and 25 per cent, the study of almost half a million people found.

Some previous studies have hinted that coffee could have a protective effect, but their findings have been inconclusive.

However, researchers at the US National Cancer Research Institute in Rockville, Maryland, have found evidence of a possible protective effect.

They looked at 490,000 people who agreed to have their health monitored for a decade, after answering questions about their lifestyle and diet in the mid 1990s. The research is published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

Among the sixth who said they drank four or more cups a day, the risk of being diagnosed with bowel or rectal cancer over the decade was 15 per cent lower than non-drinkers of coffee.

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