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| Study links smoking, drinking, tea to cancer |
| 2006-11-21 |
| We knows about the stogies and booze... but grean tea? Whoa... Men who smoke and drink daily are nine to 11 times more likely to get cancer of the esophagus, according to a new Tohoku University study. Yah, we know about these... Surprisingly, drinking several cups of green tea a day also increased the risk of that cancer, the study found. Damn. Sorry, tw. But the higher risk of cancer was most noticeable among smokers. Roughly 70 percent of the men could have avoided esophageal cancer by quitting smoking, the researchers calculated. "Esophageal cancer is representative of a cancer that can be prevented through a change in daily habits," said Tohoku University's Shinichi Kuriyama, who oversaw the research study. "The most important thing is to quit smoking. The worst situation is smoking while drinking alcohol." The project was led by Atsunobu Ishikawa at the Department of Public Health and Forensic Medicine at Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine. It followed about 27,000 men in two studies: one that began in 1984 of 9,000 men over 40 in Miyagi Prefecture, and another that started in 1990 with 18,000 men in the same age group. The subjects were asked about their diet and daily habits. The first group was followed for nine years, the second for seven years and seven months. Of all the subjects, 78 men eventually developed esophageal cancer. The researchers measured the cancer rate against three habits--smoking, drinking alcohol and drinking green tea. Smokers were about five times more likely than non-smokers to develop esophageal cancer. Those who drank alcohol almost daily had a 2.7-fold greater risk than those who drank only rarely. In addition, men who drank more than five cups of green tea a day had a 1.7-fold greater risk of cancer than those who did not. That might be because the men drank the tea while it was still very hot, the researchers speculated. Experts believe drinking hot liquids increases the risk of developing esophageal cancer. An earlier study by the same team found that green tea helps reduce the mortality rate for cardiovascular disease. Okay, so if I toss the smokes, shitcan the alky, and cool my tea... I just invented iced tea! Woohoo! The team also calculated the risk of a combination of the three habits. Those who neither smoked nor regularly drank alcohol or green tea were given a base risk of 1. Smoking and drinking alcohol increased the risk of getting esophageal cancer to 9.2 times; adding more than three daily cups of green tea into the mix pushed it up to 11.1 times. |
| Posted by:.com |
| #16 BA - He luvs to dish shit out, but he runs like a scalded puppy when challenged. I warned his dumb ass. |
| Posted by: .com 2006-11-21 23:34 |
| #15 lol, .com! Good to see ya settlin' in to your new position in life, lol! Just ignore jib-jab, whatever his nym is. |
| Posted by: BA 2006-11-21 23:28 |
| #14 Big-jim's ancestor would have lived forever if he'd done without the whiskey and pork rinds. Or at least it would have seemed like forever... |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2006-11-21 20:05 |
| #13 I should get a study for guys that drink whiskey and eat pork rinds for 20 years. We'll outlive all of you. My great grandfather lived to 93 by my method. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2006-11-21 18:36 |
| #12 Yeah, but whaddabout grean tea, huh? Lol. Some Dubai chain-yanker-goatfucker kvetched the other day I'd be editing my posts. Well, I don't. Lol. |
| Posted by: .com 2006-11-21 18:35 |
| #11 I quit smoking green tea back in my 20's - there's no buzz |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-11-21 18:30 |
| #10 Who needs research when you can have bad reporting and scary headlines? Danger! Danger! |
| Posted by: SteveS 2006-11-21 18:04 |
| #9 Whew -- thanks for the warning, .com! I can only be grateful I'm not a man who smokes and drinks daily, or I'd be headed for the compost heap already, I guess... ;-) Bad study, though, if they didn't bother to think of accounting for the temperature of the tea when swallowed. I remember reading about the study that revealed the reason Japanese men had so much higher a level of esophogal cancer than Japanes women was that the women served their menfolk the tea first, so that by the time the women daintily sipped theirs, it had cooled considerably. Damn, but I hate poorly done research! |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-11-21 17:51 |
| #8 The # that screamed the most to me in all this "science" was that only 78 guys got esophogal cancer, out of roughly 27,000! That's WAAAY less than 1/2 of 1%! So much for all the scare tactics. |
| Posted by: BA 2006-11-21 14:38 |
| #7 Whew! I only drink coffee and cold beer. Coffee has lots of antioxidants. Gonna live to be 100! |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2006-11-21 10:56 |
| #6 Yea, Nimble Spemble, it's called " [grin, duck, and run] |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2006-11-21 10:27 |
| #5 Well, it's hard to get a control group of 5,000 - 10,000 men to drink only hot water for 20 years. |
| Posted by: KBK 2006-11-21 09:01 |
| #4 'lemme hold your beer NS. :> |
| Posted by: Shipman 2006-11-21 07:26 |
| #3 .com is getting so PC now that he is a mod. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2006-11-21 07:15 |
| #2 Yes, chronic ingestion of hot liquids or foods is a contributing factor to squamous cell carcinoma. Nothing we didn't already know. The added risk isn't from drinking green tea, but rather from drinking any hot liquid. Nice science there. And what about the offsetting reduced risk of other kinds of cancer, due to drinking green tea regularly? |
| Posted by: gromky 2006-11-21 04:45 |
| #1 That's it for me. I smoke, drink alcohol and drink at least 6 cups of tea a day. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2006-11-21 03:46 |