Obesity and drinking alcohol increase the risk for liver cancer, and coffee consumption decreases the risk, according to a new report called Diet, Nutrition, Physical Activity and Liver Cancer.
The report was released by the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) and the World Cancer Research Fund's Continuous Update Project (CUP) on March 25.
This is the first time there's been such a clear signal from a rigorous, systematic review on the links between obesity increasing risk of liver cancer and coffee decreasing risk," CUP panel member Stephen Hursting, PhD, MPH, commented in a press release. Dr Hursting is a researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.