Can drinking coffee prevent liver cancer? To prevent liver cancer, you need to know these common sense

Coffee has a particularly strong bitter taste, which stimulates the central nervous system, heart and respiratory system. A moderate amount of caffeine can also reduce muscle fatigue and promote the secretion of digestive juices. Many people drink coffee, so can drinking coffee prevent liver cancer? Let's explore it together. New foreign research shows that there is a correlation between drinking coffee and a lower incidence of liver cancer. According to researchers at the Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, the more coffee you drink, the lower your risk of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Hepatocellular carcinoma occurs more often in men than in women. The causes of this cancer include liver damage and cirrhosis, which are caused by excessive drinking, autoimmune diseases, viral infections or excessive iron in the body. The research data came from 79,890 men and women. Scientists investigated the eating habits and lifestyles of these men and women, and the average length of time covered by the data was 18 years. Analysis of the data shows that people who drink 4 to 6 cups of coffee a day are 42% less likely to develop hepatocellular carcinoma than others. Coffee drinking has been linked to a lower incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma in epidemiological studies, but none of those studies were conducted in the United States, said V. Wendy Setiawan, assistant professor of preventive medicine at the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center in Los Angeles. He added that the 18-year data from a diverse range of men and women of different ethnicities showed a statistically significant dose-response link between increased coffee intake and a lower incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma. Like Parkinson's disease, type 2 diabetes and stroke, hepatocellular carcinoma now joins the list of diseases that can be prevented by drinking coffee, Setiawan said. He believes people at higher risk for hepatocellular carcinoma should be encouraged to drink some coffee every day. The study was funded by the National Cancer Institute and was presented at the 2014 annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research. First of all, for people who love to drink coffee, medical research in recent years has brought a lot of good news. There is increasing evidence that drinking coffee is good for health. People who regularly drink a certain dose of coffee have a lower incidence of diseases such as type 2 diabetes, heart disease, stroke, gallstones, Parkinson's disease, colon cancer and liver cancer. Some studies have even found that people who drink coffee for a long time have a longer life span. Does this mean that from now on, if we drink coffee every day, we can prevent these diseases? Friends and relatives who already have the above diseases do not need to take medicine or go to the doctor, and go to a coffee shop when they feel uncomfortable? Unfortunately, Starbucks has never advertised this, and it seems that the answer is not the case. In fact, the conclusions of different types of medical research have their limitations. This recent study by the University of Southern California is a retrospective epidemiological analysis, which uses specific statistical software to conduct correlation analysis on a large amount of previous medical data. The conclusion drawn in this way can only show that in the past period of time, the incidence of liver cancer in some people in the United States who drink coffee is lower. However, this study can only describe the facts, not the principles, and it cannot draw the conclusion that drinking coffee can prevent liver cancer. Because the pathogenesis of liver cancer is complex, liver cancer patients in different countries have different inducing factors. For example, the high-risk population for liver cancer in my country is chronic hepatitis B patients or carriers, while in the United States, hepatitis C patients or patients with alcoholic cirrhosis caused by frequent drinking are prone to liver cancer. Therefore, for the Chinese public, the main way to prevent and treat liver cancer is to do a good job of hepatitis B prevention, control hepatitis virus replication, and have regular physical examinations. In this way, we can't expect to prevent liver cancer by drinking coffee, but these research results at least show that drinking coffee is not bad for health, and it tastes really good.