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Coffee drinking linked to significantly lowered risk of prostate cancer

by Noah Nelson / CBS News

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Posted on December 8, 2009 at 8:11 AM

Updated Tuesday, Dec 8 at 2:49 PM

LOS ANGELES -- At M's coffee shop in LA, a cup of joe is the perfect medicine, and it might be just what the doctor ordered for men.

A study of nearly 50,000 men over 20 years shows that those who drank coffee had a 60 percent lower risk of aggressive prostate cancer. The data indicates drinking coffee might even lower the risk of other types of prostate cancer.

But it's probably not the caffeine that's reducing the risk of cancer. Research shows men benefitted even when they were drinking decaf.

One doctor believes that the key factor could really be antioxidants.

Researchers emphasize it's still too early to say coffee will protect men against prostate cancer, but all indications are that it won't harm them.

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