En español | That cup of French roast might turn out to be more
than just a tasty pick-me-up: Two new studies have found that
women who drink several cups of coffee a day have a
significantly lower risk of endometrial cancer. In the first
report, researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health
followed more than 67,000 women enrolled in the long-running
Nurses' Health Study, which tracked their health and their
coffee consumption, among other behaviors. The researchers
published results in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers
& Prevention. Women who drank four 8-ounce cups a day had a 25
percent lower risk of endometrial cancer than women who drank
one cup or less, the study found. Endometrial cancer — cancer in
the lining of the uterus — is the most common gynecological
cancer in the United States, according to the American Cancer
Society. Some 46,000 new cases are diagnosed each year, and
8,100 women will die from the disease. Most are diagnosed after
the age of 50. Scientists know that coffee red