Lower risk of brain tumor for coffee and tea drinkers
Coffee and tea drinkers may have a decreased likelihood of developing the most common form of malignant brain tumor in adults, a new study suggests. A study of 500'000 adults in Europe linked higher coffee and tea intake to a lower risk of gliomas, a group of brain tumors that makes up about 80 percent of malignant brain cancers in adults. People who consume more than a cup of tea or coffee per day were one-third less likely to be diagnosed with glioma, with factors such as age and smoking history taken into account. However, scientists conceded that the reasons behind these findings remain unknown, because little is understood about what actually causes brain cancer.